Cloud Identity Intermediary for External Website Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in extending identity provider services to external websites and applications that do not support standard identity management systems like SAML, as rewriting these systems to adopt such protocols is time-consuming and expensive.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that allows users to authenticate with external websites from a cloud-based computing environment using identity services like Salesforce identity, which provides single sign-on (SSO) and social sign-on capabilities, without requiring web developers to handle authentication services directly, by using HTML meta tags and JavaScript functions to integrate with the cloud-based identity provider.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If organizations implement standard identity management systems like SAML for external websites, then authentication security and centralized identity management are improved, but implementation time and cost increase significantly due to required system rewriting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component that bridges cloud-based identity services and external websites without requiring the websites to be rewritten. This intermediary handles the authentication protocol translation and communication, allowing standard SAML-based identity management to be applied to non-compliant external sites through a mediating layer rather than direct integration
2Reliability
If organizations implement standard identity management systems like SAML for external websites, then authentication security and centralized identity management are improved, but implementation cost increases due to system rewriting requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediary component serves as a cost-effective solution by eliminating the need for expensive system rewriting. It provides a standardized interface that connects cloud identity services to external websites through existing protocols, reducing implementation costs while maintaining security standards
3Ease of operation
If cloud-based identity services are integrated with external websites, then user authentication convenience is improved, but system complexity increases due to integration requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex authentication logic from the external website integration process and consolidates it into a separate cloud-based identity service component. This extraction allows the external websites to maintain simple implementation while the complex authentication handling is performed by the dedicated identity service, reducing overall system integration complexity
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing authentication of a user login to an external website from a community in a cloud based computing environment. An exemplary system having at least a processor and a memory therein includes means for identifying a first domain where a user is to be allowed to login to an external web page hosted thereon, and means for connecting the external web page with a community of a cloud computing environment hosted on a second domain different than the identified first domain, the connecting means handling how the connected community authenticates the user when the user logs into the external web page and providing one of a plurality of login experiences for the user based on conditions determined at run time.