| Term |
Description |
| Authentication |
Process to confirm that a user or entity is who they claim to be in order to prevent unauthorized access to systems. |
| Single Sign-On (SSO) |
SSO allows users to authenticate with multiple services using one central Identity provider. |
| SAML 2.0 |
Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP). |
| Identity Provider (IdP) |
Trusted external system that stores and verifies user identity information. It authenticates users and sends information about them to the Service Provider. |
| Service Provider (SP) |
ProctorExam administration application which depends on a configured IdP to authenticate users. |
| Attribute Consumption |
ProctorExam consumes the following attributes: Name, email address |
| Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA or 2FA) |
- MFA combines two or more independent credentials: what the user knows (password), what the user has (security token), what the user is (biometric verification).
- The idea is that even if one factor is compromised, unauthorized access is still difficult.
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