Specifically, unified authentication can bring the following benefits:
Improvement of user experience: users can access multiple applications only by using a set of user names and passwords, and do not need to remember multiple account passwords, thus improving the efficiency and convenience of users.
Enhanced security: Unified authentication can authenticate users and ensure that only authorized users can access specific applications and services. At the same time, password policy and access control can be strengthened to reduce the risk of account password theft.
Cost reduction: Through unified authentication, enterprises can reduce the cost of user management and authentication, and avoid separate authentication and user management for different systems and applications, thus reducing duplication of work and management costs.
Convenience of management and monitoring: unified identity authentication can centrally manage and monitor users' access behavior, including login time, location, IP address and other information, which is convenient for enterprises to audit and supervise.
Convenience of accessing third-party services: Unified identity authentication can facilitate enterprises to access third-party services, including cloud services and social media, thus improving the business flexibility and expansibility of enterprises.
Increase user stickiness: Unified identity authentication can integrate and analyze users' data in different applications and services, thus providing more personalized services and recommendations and increasing users' stickiness and loyalty.
Unified user information: Through unified identity authentication, enterprises can integrate and manage the basic information and authority information of users, thus avoiding the problems of inconsistent user information and chaotic authority management in different systems.
Accelerate digital transformation: Unified identity authentication can provide technical support for the digital transformation of enterprises, help enterprises to better integrate and manage various applications and services, and thus improve the efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises.
Reduce account conflicts: Through unified authentication, the user's login name and password can be reused among different applications and services, thus reducing the problems of login failure and authentication failure caused by account conflicts.
Enhance the security of mobile applications: mobile applications are becoming more and more popular, but compared with traditional desktop applications, the security of mobile applications is more vulnerable to threats. Through unified authentication, stricter authentication and access control can be achieved in mobile applications, thus enhancing the security of mobile applications.
Strengthen privacy protection: Unified identity authentication can help users protect their personal privacy, because users' identity information can only be shared once in different applications and services, thus avoiding the risk of privacy leakage caused by providing personal information for many times.
Unified identity authentication is a very practical technical means, which can bring many benefits, including enhancing security, improving user experience, reducing management costs, facilitating supervision, facilitating access to third-party services, increasing user stickiness, unifying user information, accelerating digital transformation, and reducing account conflicts.