Federated authentication and SSO
What is a federated environment?
A federated environment separates user authentication from user access by using one or more external entities to independently authenticate user credentials. Once authenticated, this information is relayed to various services, allowing users to access them via Single Sign-On (SSO).
Federated environments revolve around two core components:
- Service provider (SP):
- In a Rokt federated environment, Rokt acts as the SP.
- Identity provider (IdP):
- The IdP is the external and independent entity responsible for providing the following services to the SP:
- Maintaining user credentials and profile data.
- Authenticating users via SSO.
- The IdP is the external and independent entity responsible for providing the following services to the SP:
Supported identity providers
Rokt has guides for integrating with the following IdPs:
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Need a different provider like Active Directory or Google Workspace? Please let your account manager know. Rokt uses Auth0 to manage enterprise connections and can support most mainstream identity providers.