Articles tagged scim
How to Submit Your System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) Integration to the Okta Integration Network
You have an app with SSO capabilities. What else can you do with Okta to transform it into an enterprise-ready powerhouse? Today’s enterprises face critical identity management challenges that directly impact their operations; this includes: Rapid business growth outpacing their current user management capabilities Scattered user accounts creating administrative chaos User management that doesn’t scale with company growth (access free-for-all to resources) Bottlenecks in user provisioning slowing down productivity (i.e., manual provisioning) and more critically,...
How to Manage User Lifecycle with .NET and SCIM
Several challenges exist in provisioning users for a growing company across systems and applications. It can be time-consuming, error-prone, challenging to sync users across domains, and potentially a security risk to keep track of existing profiles. Fortunately, a protocol called SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) standardizes user information across systems, making it possible to sync users. Also, combined with a SCIM-compliant Identity Provider (IdP), it securely automates common user lifecycle operations. In this tutorial,...
Enterprise-Ready Workshop: Manage users with SCIM
Hello SaaS developers! You sell your software to technologically mature enterprises, and they expect it to interface seamlessly with all their other tools. In our Enterprise-Ready Workshop on OpenID Connect, you learned how to solve part of this problem, by creating user accounts in your application for your customers’ employees whenever they log in. Posts in the on-demand workshop series 1. How to Get Going with the On-Demand SaaS Apps Workshops 2. Enterprise-Ready Workshop: Authenticate...
How to Build a Flask SCIM Server Configured for Use with Okta
At a very high level, the SCIM (System for Cross-Identity Management) protocol exists to provision and sync users and groups across various, independent systems. There is some room for nuance in the SCIM spec. In this post we will take a look at some basic SCIM operations. We’ll peek under the hood at the flow between Okta and a SCIM server built in Flask using PostgreSQL as our app database. Even if you’re not a...