Authentication Mechanisms: Single Sign-On

Risks
SSO Risks
■■ Single point of failure: With all of the user’s credentials stored on a single authentication
server, the failure of that server can prevent access for those users to all applications for
which it had provided authentication services

■■ Single point of access: Because SSO affords a single point of access, it is more prone to
mass denial-of-service attacks whereby entire groups of users can be denied access to
systems by attacking the single point of access.