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Where enterprise SSO and SCIM fit

Use the lesson to respond to this. "In one sentence each, what does OAuth give you that OIDC doesn't and vice versa?" Keep the answer plain.

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Where enterprise SSO and SCIM fitthe B2B reality

Enterprise tenants add two layers on top of OAuth and OIDCOpenID Connect. The modern single sign-on standard, built as an identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0. Where SAML is XML and enterprise-legacy, OIDC is JSON and what newer tools implement first. Press Enter for the full definition.: federation to their own IdP and SCIMSystem for Cross-domain Identity Management. A standard for automatically creating and removing user accounts when people join or leave. Press Enter for the full definition. provisioning. The stack shows how each one rests on the layer beneath it.

THE AUTH PROTOCOL STACK

Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.

diagram: stack

Each layer rests on the one below. OIDC sits on top of OAuth and does not replace it.