Single Sign-On Best Practices: How Organisations can Implement SSO with Keith Uber, Ubisecure

Let's talk about digital identity with Keith Uber, VP in charge of Sales Engineering at Ubisecure. In episode 94, Keith joins Oscar to delve into Single Sign-On (SSO) best practises and how organisations can implement SSO – including technical aspects, how it used in practise and the advantages of SSO. [Transcript below] "The best type of single sign-on is where the user doesn't notice it." Keith is VP Customer Success at Ubisecure. As an Identity and Access Management product expert, he leads the Sales Engineering team and is involved in many stages in the planning and design of demanding customer implementation projects. Keith is active in various industry organisations and has a keen interest particularly in government mandated digital identity systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in I.T. and a master’s degree in Economics, specialising in software business. Check out Keith’s SSO video series. Connect with Keith on LinkedIn. We’ll be continuing this conversation on Twitter using #LTADI – join us @ubisecure! Go to @Ubisecure on YouTube to watch the video transcript for episode 94. Podcast transcript Let’s Talk About Digital Identity, the podcast connecting identity and business. I am your host, Oscar Santolalla. Oscar Santolalla: Hello and thank you for joining a new episode of Let’s Talk About Digital Identity. Single Sign-On is one thing that, today we take it for granted. So, it's even hard for us to remember when was the first time we have used it. Today, we'll go a bit deeper into that and in which direction Single Sign-On is going. And for that we have a special guest, who is Keith Uber, VP at Ubisecure. Hello, Keith. Keith Uber: Hi, Oscar. Oscar: Thank you for joining us for the second time. So, you have been – two years ago. Two years ago, you've been here before talking about mergers and acquisitions. So happy to have you back here. Keith: It’s a pleasure. Thank you for the invite to come back. Oscar: Yeah, nice to have you, Keith. And we'd like to hit a few things about yourself. So, you can tell us about your journey to the world of digital identity. Keith: Yeah. So, my entry into the world of identity probably began around the year 2000 when I had just moved to Finland from Australia. I was working for telco provider, who was in the – around the dot-com boom era had been acquiring lots of small businesses. Lots of startups, they had their own projects and all of these have many different types of identity systems and lobbying systems. And my introduction to that process was – my job was to evaluate different solutions to their problem and ultimately, take part in a commercial pilot to implement a product to solve that problem. Oscar: Excellent. And I already can imagine that a single sign-on had some role on that. Just guessing that yes, single sign-on is something that. I was really trying to remember when was the first time that I used it and it's quite difficult. Because it has been coming in different, in different flavours I would say. Probably the first time I used was in one of my first jobs when, you know, you go to the office - people used to go to the office every day, and today is not, not for everyone at least. And then you sit down, and you login to your computer. You login to the domain and then suddenly, you can access some of the internal applications without logging in again. So that is one of the ways. And then later it came, what we see more often today is the web single sign-on, right? So, several applications. So, in order to start with the basics, how you define single sign-on in a nutshell? Keith: Yeah. Single Sign-On is maybe a more technical term that the industry understands. But for the end users, they don't really understand what the single sign-on means. But they do understand that they don't want to have to sign in again and again to different parts of the same website or different sections of the same company.