What is the difference between SSO and SAML?


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Chief Information Officer in Healthcare and Biotech, 1,001 - 5,000 employees
Security Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML) is an authentication standard that allows for federated identity management and can support single sign-on (SSO). SSO is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID and password to any independent or federated software systems. In most use cases, SAML is used to provide SSO capabilities across independent systems.
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Chief Information Officer in Healthcare and Biotech, 5,001 - 10,000 employees
SAML a programme language, SSO a more generic term and usually involves an agent/client install and a form of “screen-scraping” after learning the login sequence, emulating an end user.
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Director, Security Operations in Telecommunication, 501 - 1,000 employees
In line with the other, earlier comments - two entirely different things, one is a programming language used to support federation, IDAM and SSO and SSO, Single SIgn On is a generic term or label for various tech solutions which allow for an organization to provide a single set of credentials to a user for access to multiple systems.
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Sr. Director, Head of Global MCM IT in Manufacturing, 10,001+ employees
Programming language vs ability to do single sign on for SSO
VP of IT Operations in Software, 501 - 1,000 employees
At a 10,000 foot view these are used interchangably-- BUT they are different. SAML is a specific program language, whereas SSO is more generically used to refer to a wide set of tools that unify logins across multiple systems
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Director of IT in Services (non-Government), 11 - 50 employees
Both can be used for web SSO, however I cannot tell which one is better.
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CTO in Software, 11 - 50 employees
SAML is the underlying specification/standard that covers Identity Managment, Federation, and Single-Sign-On (SSO). SSO can also be enabled via OAuth.OAuth2
Global CIO in Consumer Goods, 1,001 - 5,000 employees
SAML is an authentication standard that allows passing of key security credential details.  SSO is an identification system/process  that allows users to access applications.
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Chief Information Officer in Manufacturing, 10,001+ employees
SAML is the simplest sense is a security web programming language and SSO is is a security tool used to validate a users identity
Head of Corp IT in Software, 201 - 500 employees
SSO is a subset of SAML.  SAML (Security Assertion Mark-up Language) is an umbrella standard that covers federation, identity management and single sign-on (SSO).
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