From 21efc07fd85ac329352ee29a651742b89d2dbe56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrii Deinega Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:57:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update why.md Azure AD, or its newer name Entra AD are names of the solutions from Microsoft. --- why.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/why.md b/why.md index 31e64c3..4f10e35 100644 --- a/why.md +++ b/why.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ order: 3 [**SSOtax.org**](https://ssotax.org) is an open source project to raise awareness how important SSO is as a core security requirement and that it should be available for everyone! It is maintained by the IT and InfoSec community. -Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism for outsourcing the authentication (via OpenID Connect, SAML) to a third party identity provider, such as Google, Azure AD, Okta, etc. +Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism for outsourcing the authentication (via OpenID Connect, SAML) to a third party identity provider, such as Google, Microsoft, Okta, etc. Companies rely on SSO to centrally lock down any employee access at the time of their offboarding (and to support robust Multi-Factor-Authentication). Imagine offboarding a single employee from 30 different SaaS applications: Assuming it takes an IT admin 4 minutes to login to a tool and suspend the account it would take them two hours to suspend every access. Two hours in which an employee would have unauthorized access! @@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ As the [original project](https://sso.tax){:target="_blank_"} was not maintained This project was originally created by [**robchahin**](https://github.com/robchahin){:target="_blank_"}, who single-handedly coined the term **SSO Tax** and spotlighted the issue. **Big shoutout to Rob!** -*~Mathias (Co-Founder of [AccessOwl](https://www.accessowl.io){:target="_blank_"})* \ No newline at end of file +*~Mathias (Co-Founder of [AccessOwl](https://www.accessowl.io){:target="_blank_"})*