Patent attributes
A system manages security policy data used to provide access by a user to third-party applications without revealing sign-on credentials to the user. The system includes an access management server that hosts an administration portal for configuring the security policy data. The security policy data includes, for each user, a list of applications to which the user may request access and the corresponding sign-on credentials for accessing each of the applications. In response to inputs provided at the administration portal, the system associates applications with credentials and subsequently associates the credentials with a user. Before these associations are used to update the security policy data. A request for confirmation of user permission is sent to a permission server, which stores current permission data for users. If permission for the user is confirmed, security policy data is updated according to the associations provided via the administration portal.
