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Learn how to build a SCIM server for your app with WorkOS.

Authentication (AuthN) is the process of verifying the identity of users or systems before granting access to resources, essential for ensuring security in applications. This blog explores various AuthN methods like passwords, multi-factor authentication, and biometrics, and discusses the trade-offs of building in-house or using third-party providers..

Multi-tenancy is a software architecture where multiple users share a single application instance while keeping their data separate, making it cost-efficient and easier to manage. This blog explains multi-tenancy, its advantages and disadvantages, and offers best practices for implementation.

Discover the top 5 open-source SSO solutions, their pros and cons, and explore why commercial options like WorkOS might better fit your app.

GitHub secret scanning partnership, API endpoints for user auth methods and IdP identifiers, and Perplexity Enterprise Pro for all customers

Today, we are excited to announce the acquisition of Warrant, the Fine Grained Authorization (FGA) service for developers. This is a major step in WorkOS’ vision to become the world’s best platform for identity, authentication, and authorization.

Sessions, Roles, Impersonation, streaming to Datadog, new JavaScript runtimes support, and Radix Themes 3.0

Compared to alternatives like screen sharing, written documentation, or shared login credentials, impersonation provides an effective and secure way for your support team to troubleshoot.

The workos-node library now supports JavaScript environments like Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, and Node, simplifying API requests across these platforms.

The new Datadog integration now lets you stream WorkOS events and generate comprehensive reports of all end-user logins, offering improved monitoring and debugging.

With Roles, defining access control levels for your users is now a breeze. When a user session is initiated, role information will appear by default.

Session management is the mechanism for securely handling interactions between a user and an application within a specific time frame. Sessions are now available to all WorkOS users for free.

Learn how to implement Active Directory SCIM syncing for users and groups of any SaaS app. There’s also a done-for-you alternative that can help.

Test SSO, organization auth policies, profile pictures from OAuth providers, and why Hypercare migrated from Auth0

Test SSO enables developers to perform rigorous end-to-end testing for the SSO integration without having to sign up with an identity provider.