Authentication and Single Sign-On (SSO) on the Portal

User authentication and Single Sign-On (SSO) is an element of your security policies that you can use to protect access to your system infrastructure by securely establishing and propagating the identity of a sender of an access request.

• User authentication includes the process of securely establishing the identity of a user as a client requesting access to a server system.

• SSO complements user authentication and includes the process of authenticating an access request once and transparently propagating the identity of an already authenticated user for access to multiple back-end systems.

You can use authentication and SSO to enable secure points of access to your systems in open environments, such as the Internet.

The portal relies on the infrastructure provided by SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS) Java upon which it is deployed.