A question about single sign-on & two-factor authentication on the Standard plan

[Anonymous]

I am reviewing the information and one difference between the proposed Standard and Premium plans in particular caught my eye. 

"Single sign-on" features only on the Premium plan. According to my understanding of SSO, currently it is a standard feature of all single user licenses. Does moving it to Premium-only mean Standard plan users will HAVE to use two-factor authentication upon every login? I believe currently this is optional? Or am I misunderstanding what Single Sign-on means? I would be grateful if an Autodesk rep could clarify this. Many thanks in advance!

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous 

It's this feature that Enterprise customers have https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/SSOGUIDE-Guide/files/SSOGUIDE-Guide-About-Single-Sign-on-SSO-html-html.html

[vladimir_michl]

You are mixing up two concepts - two-factor (an existing feature) just tightens login security while SSO is an Enterprise (and future Premium) benefit of a federated, company-wide login (domain login, the same as you use in your company network or for Office, instead of an Autodesk ID).

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz - www.cadforum.cz

[Anonymous]

Thanks @Mark.Lancaster and @vladimir_michl . I guess I was confused because non-Enterprise users get this update and so I thought SSO was simply a component of the "regular" single user login.

[vladimir_michl · Accepted solution]

To complicate this further - Autodesk uses the "SSO" term quite confusingly here. The well-known "Autodesk ID" login is in fact already a SSO (even its URL says so) - a single sign on account/path to all Autodesk services. What Enterprise and Premium customers get, is in fact rather a "federated login" or "federated SSO" - a single login to different providers (incl. Microsoft, Autodesk...), based on SAML and domain services trust.

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz - www.cadforum.cz