Single Sign On (SSO) - where one set of credentials is shared across multiple applications - makes systems safer and easier to manage, and is often mandated in larger enterprise level IT departments. The SSO prototocol of choice in large corporate’s is the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and at Carbon Six Digital we’ve undertaken a number of projects that involved integrating SAML into Umbraco, which is our Content Management System of choice. In each case, our goal has been to provide a seamless integration for a core directory of users into Umbraco, while aiming to maintain the existing Umbraco…

Last year we worked on an Umbraco project for a FTSE100 pharmaceutical company. The project was to build and implement a personalised training portal, accessible from laptops on their corporate network as well as tablets on the open internet.Unsurprisingly information security was a big issue to them, and part of our brief was to ensure that all user logins were authenticated using their corporate identity provider. After working with their Information Security team and Corporate Head of Technical Standards we designed a system to integrate the Umbraco Membership system with the client's Identity Provider, Ping Federate, using SAML (Security Assertion…

Recently one of our existing customers in the Education sector asked us to investigate options to to improve the integration of their customer systems.  Currently we manage the web applications that Tutors and Learners use to access learning resources, which we developed using Umbraco. Tutors also have access to an online customer portal developed by a different agency which enables them to register courses and learners.  While this is also a .NET based system it currently has little integration with the Umbraco site.  For example, users have two separate log-ins and passwords, and when logged into one application they…