What is Single sign-on (SSO)? Single sign-on from Duo provides users with an easy and consistent login experience for every application -- cloud or on-premises. Cloud-based and hosted by Duo, SSO is easy to set up and manage and it is a key step to your passwordless journey.
Duo SSO safely puts essential applications at your users' fingertips without them having to remember or enter multiple login credentials. Duo SSO enables seamless, secure access to the broadest range of cloud and on-premises apps including those built on SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) standards.
Decreased Risk for Industry Compliance
SSO means users don’t have to remember multiple passwords, reducing the risks associated with credential compromise and breaches. With cyber insurance requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA), Duo has you covered for secure access for the workforce.
Simplified Access to Save Time and Cost
SSO provides simplified access for today’s hybrid work environment, allowing users easy access to all permitted apps in seconds! By reducing login credentials and offering self-service, Duo helps save time and cost for onboarding to applications, password resets, device management and more.
SSO for a Passwordless Future
Planning for passwordless? SSO is an essential step in your journey! SSO dramatically reduces reliance on passwords from the start, and Duo Passwordless relies on SSO for secure authentication. Duo provides the easiest to deploy and manage passwordless SSO solution.
Duo’s cloud-based SSO works seamlessly with your identity provider and Duo’s MFA to enable secure access and help protect virtually any cloud, web or on-premises app. Simplicity and security don’t have to be mutually exclusive — watch our video to see how Duo creates a user-friendly SSO experience while providing the data security you need.
Duo enables organizations to adhere to regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS, HIPAA, etc.) for verification of users.
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Utilizing Duo’s SSO, employee authentication to cloud assets is streamlined and secure. Read the Customer Story
— Chuck Kim, Director of IT, Inflection
Whether you’re a small to medium business or enterprise-level organization, Duo’s SSO provides simplified application access to users and is easy to deploy and manage. Our five key factors tip sheet lets you know what to look for in an SSO solution.
Duo's SSO makes life easier for users, since they only need one password, and can access all apps and even update their authentication devices from a web portal, Duo Central. Paired with strong MFA, device insights and controls, and adaptive security policies, it protects and enables access to all platforms and applications from any user, device and location.
Duo Passwordless requires SSO because SSO is integral to mitigating threats such as stolen passwords and credentials. Duo SSO can authenticate users against your Microsoft Entra ID or chain to authentication from an existing SSO identity provider you may already use (e.g., Microsoft’s Microsoft Entra ID Federation Services, Okta or PingFederate) so you can implement Passwordless quickly and easily.
Cisco Duo customers said exceptional things about our product on TrustRadius, earning us a TrustRadius Top Rated 2023 award for Authentication, Cloud Computing Security, and Single Sign-On (SSO) categories.
Do a deeper dive into SSO with our extensive documentation.
In this white paper, Duo Security experts discuss the passwordless future and the path toward passwordless authentication for all users. Download now!
