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Article: LDAP at the heart of the secure organisation 

"Single sign-on (SSO) has long been a holy grail for security teams in large complex organisations. But the obstacles in the way of its universal deployment have so far proved to be too great - in particular the challenge of interfacing and synchronising data held in the various directories that larger companies typically deploy.

These proprietary directories have traditionally been built around individual applications, which creates problems for anyone attempting to standardise or centralise user and application credentials. But things are looking up. The accelerating adoption of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is offering hope to security managers who have been seeking to integrate multiple enterprise directories - and so facilitating SSO."
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# posted by Robbie (6/08/2005 11:49:13 PM)

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