If you work on managing or developing Research and Education federations – or are simply curious about browser privacy – this post is for you. We delve into the navigational tracking mitigations currently implemented in major web browsers. In a follow-up post, we will present experiments that examine the impact of these mitigations on the […]
Tag: Single sign-on
Introduction Since the Research and Education (R&E) hackathon in February last year, the Federated Credential Management API (FedCM) API has moved to the point where its basic functionality has been included in Google Chrome and most Chromium-based web browsers such as Microsoft Edge. It’s become clearer that the main consumer of FedCM is Google themselves, specifically […]
If your institution is considering the move to single sign-on (SSO) solutions, you might find colleagues asking; what does this mean? And what are the benefits? In short, an SSO authentication platform provides simple access control for authentication and authorisation for a whole organisation. In simple terms, this means users only need a single username […]