SSO & Federation Protocols (SAML, OIDC)

How a user authenticates once with an identity provider and gets trusted access across many applications.

Read

45 min

Practice MCQs

25

Interview QA

25

Edition

v5

Editorial status

Reviewed

Relevant for

Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineer

Scope: OIDC Core 1.0, OAuth 2.0 with RFC 9700 BCP, SAML 2.0, SCIM 2.0, and NIST SP 800-63C-4 guidance current 2026-09-04.