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Salesforce Identity

Salesforce OpenID Connect

In addition to the proprietary Authentication Provider types (Facebook, Janrain, Salesforce) Winter ’14 (v29.0) added support for the OpenID Connect protocol, enabling off-platform authentication via any compatible OpenID Provider (Google, PayPal, Amazon and others). This post provides a basic implementation overview. OpenID Connect what is it? OpenID Connect is a lightweight authentication (identity verification) protocol […]

Salesforce Identity Connect

Over the recent years I’ve spent focused on the Salesforce architecture domain I’ve designed and implemented federated single sign-on (SSO) schemes many times (and the proprietary Delegated Authentication on rare occasions). Whilst each implementation has its nuances in terms of specific access use cases (mobile, composite app, public internet versus corporate network only etc.) and […]