Shibboleth is the linchpin that securely authenticates identities within the InCommon Federation. It is a single sign-on (SSO) solution that allows management to make informed authorization decisions in a privacy-preserving manner. Shibboleth is used in the InCommon Trusted Access Platform architecture to support federated and campus single-sign-on services to local and cloud-hosted applications.
Shibboleth is among the world’s most widely deployed federated identity solutions, connecting users to applications both within and between organizations.