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Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on a variety of platforms such as web and application servers.

Vulture is an HTTP reverse proxy. It does many security checks (authentication, rewriting, filtering) before proxying request from Internet to your web applications. With authentication enabled, vulture will open flows only to authenticated users. It also allows to your users to use only one password to access many different applications by learning and forwarding their different accounts.

The Shibboleth software implements the OASIS SAML v1.1 specification, providing a federated Single-SignOn and attribute exchange framework.

Grâce au Single Sign-On, il est possible de regrouper toutes les demandes d'authentification en une procédure unique. Le confort des utilisateurs et le niveau de sécurité s'en trouvent améliorés.

NuFW performs an authentication of every single connection passing through the IP filter, by transparently requesting user's credentials before any filtering decision is taken. Practically, this means security policies can integrate with the users directory, and bring the notion of user ID down to the IP layers.