A Performant and Secure Single Sign-On System Using Microservices

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作者
Moghaddam, Mahyar T. [1 ]
Pedersen, Andreas Edal [1 ]
Bolding, William Walter Lillebroe [2 ]
Worm, Torben [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
[2] VIA Univ Coll, Aarhus, Denmark
来源
38TH ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING, SAC 2023 | 2023年
关键词
Empirical Software Engineering; Microservices; Single Sign-On; Performance; Security;
D O I
10.1145/3555776.3577869
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
The Single Sign-On (SSO) method eases the authentication and authorization process. The solution substantially impacts the users' experience since they only need to authenticate once to access multiple services without re-authenticating. This paper adopts an incremental prototyping approach to develop an SSO system. The research reveals that while SSO improves users' quality of experience, it could imply performance and security issues if traditional architectures are adopted. Thus, a Microservices-based approach with containerization is subsequently proposed to overcome SSO's quality issues in practice. The SSO system is containerized using Docker and managed using Docker Compose. The results show a significant performance and security improvement.
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页码:1516 / 1519
页数:4
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