Company
Date Published
Author
Colin Sidoti
Word count
502
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Clerk has introduced EASIE SSO, a simplified enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) solution designed to address the current shortcomings in user experience, developer ease, and IT administration associated with traditional SSO systems. By integrating with Google and Microsoft OpenID Connect (OIDC), EASIE SSO adds enterprise-specific features such as email domain-based enrollment, mandatory sign-in through a chosen provider, just-in-time provisioning, and automatic session management, all without the need for managing SAML metadata or OIDC secrets. This solution eliminates the previously standard usage-based SSO fees to make enterprise SSO more accessible. Clerk aims to resolve security challenges and ease the complexity of existing systems, hoping to broaden the adoption of SSO among businesses of all sizes. EASIE SSO is developed as an open specification, encouraging widespread implementation beyond Clerk’s user base, with the goal of making enterprise SSO more prevalent and user-friendly.