Unleashing the SSO

1 · BuzzFeed · Aug. 23, 2018, 3:08 p.m.
Open-sourcing sso, the way we secure services at BuzzFeedToday we are open-sourcing sso, our single-sign-on authentication proxy — known internally as the S.S. Octopus — used to secure access to internal services at BuzzFeed. This post will cover an overview of the history of authentication at BuzzFeed, why we wrote sso, and a little bit about how it works.We think sso is a useful solution to a problem that many organizations face. Because we’ve benefited so much from the open source community, ...