1 online resource (vii, 42 pages) : color illustrations
Contents
Introduction -- Authentication and authorisation -- Web based authentication -- IP address recognition -- SAML -- OpenID Connect -- Basic trouble shooting
Summary
"This book offers a concise guide for librarians, helping them understand the challenges, processes and technologies involved in managing access to online resources. After an introduction the book presents cases of general authentication and authorisation. It helps readers understand web based authentication and provides the fundamentals of IP address recognition in an easy to understand manner. A special chapter is dedicated to Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), followed by an overview of the key concepts of OpenID Connect. The book concludes with basic troubleshooting guidelines and recommendations for further assistance. Librarians will benefit from this quick and easy read, which demystifies the technologies used, features real-life scenarios, and explains how to competently employ authentication and access management"--Publisher's description
Analysis
SAML
access management
access protocols
authentication
authorisation
identity management
library technology
online resources
troubleshooting
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence
English
Online resource; title from electronic title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 15, 2018)
