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WSO2 Identity Server

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About WSO2 Identity Server

WSO2 Identity Server is a modern, open source CIAM (customer identity access management) solution. It provides all the critical building blocks required to deliver a cutting-edge digital customer experience (CX), including:

- Single sign-on
- Social & federated login
- Strong authentication
- Passwordless, risk-adaptive and multi-factor authentication
- User onboarding
- Progressive profiling
- Account management
- User self-service
- Identity provisioning
- Identity bridging
- Fine-grained access control
- Privacy, consent & compliance management
- Analytics, dashboarding & reporting
- Preconfigured integration with sales & marketing tools

WSO2 Identity Server also offers market-leading business-to-business (B2B) CIAM features that enable organizations to safely grant partners and enterprise/institutional customers access to your unique services and data. This enables your organization to extend market reach, develop new revenue streams, and enable new go-to-market business models.

One of WSO2 Identity Server’s greatest strengths is its ability to be extended and adapted to meet your organization’s specific requirements. In addition to its highly extensible, API-oriented architecture, WSO2 Identity Server offers tools, resources, and community to give your development team a head start and a clear path. SDKs are available for popular development environments, ensuring your development team can work with the tools and methods they’re already familiar with.

Available either as open source code, or as an executable binary, WSO2 Identity Server can be deployed on-premises, in your organization’s chosen cloud environment, or as a managed service completely hosted and administered by WSO2’s expert technical staff.

Key benefits of WSO2 Identity Server

Easily add critical IAM features to your CX projects
- Leverage WSO2 Identity Server within your customer experience apps.
- Quickly configure critical identity requirements with a few lines of code
- SSO, seamless login, forgotten password, account recovery, consent management, and much more.
- Our comprehensive portfolio of SDKs, pre-built connectors, documentation, and samples turbocharges your developers’ productivity.

CIAM, IAM or OEM
- Flexible, scalable architecture adapts to your use case–securing your customer identities or enabling workforce security.
- Embed WSO2 Identity Server within your own SaaS or on-premises solution for redistribution.

Scale up your users, not your costs
- Confidently expand your user count, all the way up to consumer/citizen scale.
- We don’t penalize your growth with rising, unpredictable licensing, and support costs.
- Transparent, core-based pricing remains affordable as you grow.

Maintain ultimate control
- Decide how and where your IAM system and identity data are deployed–on-premises, in your chosen cloud environment, or let WSO2 host your very own Private Identity Cloud.
- Highly extensible architecture encourages customization to suit your needs.
- Open-source transparency lends confidence in code quality.

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4.3 /5
(32)
Value for Money
4.5/5
Features
4.5/5
Ease of Use
3.8/5
Customer Support
4.2/5

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Lucas
Lucas
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  • Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

WSO2 Identity server and security using APIs

Reviewed on 2019/07/22

On Whirlpool we use some basic functions on Identity Server. It's used on API Cloud, but ,in my...

On Whirlpool we use some basic functions on Identity Server. It's used on API Cloud, but ,in my opinion, it could become an integrated package that automatically comes on API Cloud. For example, now we can't identify which application is calling our APIs and the calls by usage path. We just can do it using WSO2 EI and integrating it on Grafana.
If we had everything on the same page, it ould be much better for us.

As the admin on Whirlpool API Cloud, I think Identity server in general is a good tool to be used to guarantee the security of our APIs. We don't use all functions of it, but by seeing many use cases on WSO2 webinars and it benefits, I think we can move all our security to Identity Server and start using SSO.

Pros

It's a an open-source tool that has a big community working and discussing about it. WSO2 provides frequently maintenances and updates on it.
It removes the need on external tools to keep our environment safe and also provides a better access on APIs that call Whirlpool SAP.
It can be used on-premise or on cloud.

Cons

Developing and integrating on WSO2 IS needs some technical knowledge and it's not much easy to do without a base. Also it could have a geo-location identifier that automatically guides users to WSO2 servers based on their location. Also it could came integrated with WSO2 API Cloud.

Rob
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

WSO2 Identity Server 5.8.0

Reviewed on 2019/08/18

I train people in WSO2 Identity Server for all kinds of purposes, from being a IdP (Identity...

I train people in WSO2 Identity Server for all kinds of purposes, from being a IdP (Identity Provider) itself to all kinds of other scenarios including SAML SSO, OpenID Connect and all kinds of Federated Authentication scenerios.

Pros

The WSO2 software is based on a common code base called Carbon and is open source so can be inspected, downloaded and changed / extended when needed. There are extention points that will allow skilled Java developers to create custom pieces of code to suit specific needs without changing the source code of the product, simply adding to the software. A number of extentions are in the store.wso2.com like federated authenticators, provisioning connectors and so on that will allow you the extend the product (e.g. bitly for federated authentication) but you can write and add your own. There is support for FIDO (U2F) but also adaptive authentication where script based rules will determine if a added layer of security is needed.

There ate new additions in each version like UMA (User Managed Access) that was introduced recently. All in all, a full fledged product with lots of functionality and extensibility. Works with other WSO2 Products as well.

Cons

The product is a complex product for people to understand. As a WSO2 trainer i know that this is the most difficult product to master.
The current version (on Carbon 4.x.x) has a large number of config files that govern the product and allow you to tailor the product to your configuration. However, due to this and the fact that you want / need to keep up with security updates and quarterly releases (not to mention product support where you can create new updates using WSO2 Update Manager) you need to invest time in creating Ansible scripts to automate the deployment part (i.e. configuring new releases to match current settings).

As with ANY software product, having great documentation is key to getting the most out of the product in a reasonable amount of time. This is of course part of WSO2's task but everyone can help to improve it.

Adiraju
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

A half-baked solution

Reviewed on 2019/07/26

We have overall good experience but it has a huge learning curve. This impacts our time to market...

We have overall good experience but it has a huge learning curve. This impacts our time to market very greatly. The solutions are there to be built upon, but the approach to solution is quite tricky and sometimes really confusing. The security aspects require a more fine-tuning than what is currently offered. A better documentation would definitely benefit the WSO2 product line as a whole and not just this product.

Pros

Open Source
Customizable
Enhancable
Scalable

Cons

Security
Documentation
Samples and Examples
Community Support

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A platform for any identity and authentication protocols

Reviewed on 2019/01/04

The WSO2 Identity Server is the ultimate solution for Identity and Authentication solutions for any...

The WSO2 Identity Server is the ultimate solution for Identity and Authentication solutions for any kind of systems. But we need to know the conceptual knowledge in order to use it properly.

Pros

The best ever server which I used in my organization for identity solutions. It provides multiple identity solutions such as OAuth, OpenID, SSO, Provisioning, JIT, Multi-Factor Authentication, Fine-grained access control, SOAP and many more. The most likely feature is that you don't need to do any implementations as it has whatever you need for identity or authentication systems. You can integrate your authentication system with WSO2 identity server by doing some configurations in the GUI itself. For example, if you want OAuth to be implemented for your organization, just provide your callback URL, application name and that's it! It is that simple. It makes developers' life easier.

Cons

The major problem I am always having with WSO2 identity software is that they release latest versions of identity server and the java version differs for almost all the versions and hence it hard to find which version is it requiring. Therefore it is a bit hard to make the identity server runs for the first time. Further, to enable some specific feature, we should edit the configuration files in the installation folder of identity server.

PATRICIO
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

WSO2 Identity Server Review

Reviewed on 2019/08/14

It allows solving the issue of user provisioning, improving access times for a new employee, unique...

It allows solving the issue of user provisioning, improving access times for a new employee, unique SSO authentication, robust double authentication factor

Pros

The product opensource, adapts easily to changes, always incorporates new features, very easy to manage, there is a connector for many applications.
the self-service portal is a great help, and adaptive authentication allows you to configure your accesses in a granular way.
The support team is excellent

Cons

The module of reports is very light, the configuration of the authorization requires expertise, for small installations, the subscription model by processor is a bit expensive

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WSO2 Identity Server offers the following pricing plans:

  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

WSO2 Identity Server has the following typical customers:

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