Central Authentication Service(CAS) is an enterprise multilingual single sign-on solution for the web and attempts to be a comprehensive platform for your authentication and authorization needs.
It is an open and well-documented authentication protocol. The primary implementation of the protocol is an open-source Java server component by the same name hosted here, with support for a plethora of additional authentication protocols and features such a SAML2, OpenID Connect and many many more.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Spring Webflow/Spring Boot Java server component.
- Pluggable authentication support (LDAP, Database, X.509, SPNEGO, JAAS, JWT, RADIUS, MongoDb, etc)
- Support for multiple protocols (CAS, SAML v1, SAML v2, WS-Federation, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, REST)
- Support for multifactor authentication via a variety of providers (Duo Security, FIDO2 WebAuthN, Google Authenticator, Inwebo, etc.)
- Support for delegated authentication to external identity providers such as ADFS, Facebook, Twitter, SAML2 IdPs, OIDC OPs, etc.
- Built-in support for password management, notifications, terms of use and impersonation.
Support for attribute release including user consent. - Monitor and track application and system behavior, statistics and metrics in real-time.
- Manage and review audits and logs centrally, and publish data to a variety of downstream systems.
- Manage and register client applications and services with specific authentication policies.
- Cross-platform client support (Java, .NET, PHP, Perl, Apache, etc).
- Integrations with InCommon, Box, Office365, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday, WebAdvisor, Drupal, Blackboard, Moodle, Google Apps, etc.
- Support for many other types of integrations, such as SCIM, reCAPTCHA, Swagger, etc.
Website: apereo.github.io/cas
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Apereo Foundation
License: Apache License 2.0
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