{"id":16577,"date":"2009-12-03T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=16577"},"modified":"2014-06-23T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:23:29","slug":"shibboleth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/authentication\/shibboleth\/","title":{"rendered":"Shibboleth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access to protected online resources, while preserving privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Shibboleth provides an effective solution for secure, multi-organizational access to web resources. It enables access control for web-based applications and provides web single sign-on functionality for services hosted by your site, other sites, or both. Shibboleth also simplifies account and access management related to offering protected web-based resources.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Enables use of a single password for multiple applications<\/li>\n<li>Leverages account management over multiple applications<\/li>\n<li>Simplifies access to third-party services<\/li>\n<li>Operates within and across organizational boundaries<\/li>\n<li>Allows institutions to choose their authentication technology<\/li>\n<li>Enables service providers to control access to their resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<p>Your web service must be capable of being a Shibboleth Service Provider (SP).<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Service Provider (SP) and wish to use Shibboleth authentication, <a href=\"\/tech\/services\/security\/iam\/authentication\/shibboleth\/service-provider-checklist\/\">submit a service request now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2618,"featured_media":0,"parent":12585,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16577"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82355,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16577\/revisions\/82355"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}