In today's interconnected digital ecosystem, businesses are constantly seeking efficient and secure solutions to manage user authentication across multiple applications and domains. Identity Federation and Single Sign-On (SSO) stand out as two prominent approaches, each offering distinct advantages and use cases. Let's explore the differences between Identity Federation and SSO, their benefits, and how they address the evolving needs of enterprises.

Windows permits an anonymous user to carry out specific actions, such as listing the names of domain accounts and network shares. This functionality proves useful in scenarios when an administrator needs to provide access to users in a trusted domain lacking a reciprocal trust agreement. By default, the Everyone security identifier (SID) is excluded from the token generated for anonymous connections. Consequently, permissions assigned to the Everyone group don’t extend to anonymous users.

Containers offer many benefits, including lightweight portability from one environment to another, but they add a layer of complexity to application security that can introduce additional risks. There are many ways a container can become vulnerable to attack: through its source code, how the container is built, how the container is configured, how it secures secrets, and how it interacts with the host and other containers. Each of these avenues has its own security solutions and best practices.