Security & Identity Gateway - Centralized Authentication

Security Gateway Use Cases

Centralized Authentication
Centralized, Policy-Based Authorization
Bridging Incompatabilities
Centralized Auditing & Monitoring
Content-Based Filtering/Firewall
Scheme-Based Input Validation
Throttling
Caching
Standard-Based Single Sign On

Centralized Authentication

Conveniently manage user authentication in a single, centralized location. The WSO2 Security and Identity Gateway supports multiple heterogeneous authentication protocols including,

Mutual SSL
HTTP Digest Authentication
HTTP Basic Authentication
WS-Security Username Token Authentication
WS-Security X.509 Certificate Based Authentication
WS-Security Kerberos
WS-Trust
Validation against Active Directory / LDAP / JDBC user store
2-legged OAuth
SAML2

Central authentication offers numerous advantages such as easy management/governance of access data in a central server, unified authentication & single sign-on.