Managing Connections with Service Providers

Use the Manage Auto-Connect option in the menu to auto-connect your accounts when accessing the user portal on an identity provider. When you auto-connect an account, you are telling your service provider to trust the authentication established at your identity provider.

For example, if your company and a service provider have entered a trust agreement, you can auto-connect the accounts when you sign on to a service provider. After you auto-connect the accounts, Access Manager enables single sign-on. With single sign-on, you provide login credentials only once to be automatically authenticated and logged in to all service providers with whom you have previously connected. This is possible because the service providers trust the authentication provided by your identity provider. Changing login credentials at the service providers to match the identity provider is not necessary.

On this page, the following options are available for the service providers that your identity provider trusts:

Disable Auto-Connect: Breaks the link between the user accounts.
Enable Auto-Connect: Links two user accounts. You authenticate once and retain control over how your personal information and preferences are used by the service providers.

For Windows CardSpace connection, where a managed card is backed by a personal card, the only option available is to disable the personal card auto-connect from the managed card.

If you are accessing the user portal on the service provider, you need to use the authentication card of the identity provider to disconnect the account. To access the card, click User Login.