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## How to Extend your Identity Management Systems to use OAuth

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An enterprise’s identity management system is a critical component of its IT infrastructure. It is the primary service that is responsible for authenticating and authorizing an enterprise’s users and applications. Today, organizations need to extend their identity management system's capabilities to authorize third party applications to access the organizations' resources. The challenge is finding the time and resources to accomplish this.

In this white paper, you will learn:

- The evolution of SSO
- How OAuth standard is commonly used today.
- How OAuth is used to enable third party application integration.
- How an API gateway enables your IdM to be an OAuth service

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