What is the difference between SSO and SAML?

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Director of IT for HR Systems at Delta Air Lines in Transportation5 years ago

SSO is an authentication scheme often accomplished by LDAP and SAML is a XML-based markup language for security assertion in the form of a token.

Director of IT for HR Systems at Delta Air Lines in Transportation5 years ago

SAML is a a XML-based markup language for security assertion and SSO is an authentication scheme that allows user to login using LDAP in most cases,

Director of IT for HR Systems at Delta Air Lines in Transportation5 years ago

SAML  is an XML-based markup language for security assertions. Single sign-on is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in by using LDAP databases on servers.

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Senior Enterprise Architect, Application Consulting in Healthcare and Biotech5 years ago

There are already some very good answers here.  One point I didn't see made is that while you cannot "buy" SAML, you can buy a SSO solution based on the SAML standard.

Director of IT in Education5 years ago

SAML has more (program capable) features between the service provider and the identity provider.

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