Federated Apps

Federated Applications in Descope enable you to establish secure Single Sign-On (SSO) connections between your applications and Descope's authentication system. This allows users to authenticate once with Descope and gain access to multiple connected applications without needing to log in separately to each one.

Descope supports two main types of federated applications:

1. OIDC Applications
2. SAML Applications

When connecting to an application using either OIDC or SAML, Descope acts as the Federated Identity Provider (IdP), allowing you to unify your users' login experience across multiple applications.

You can configure and manage these federated applications through the Federated Apps tab in the Descope Console, or through our Management SDKs.

Associating Users with Applications

Descope allows you to control which users can access specific federated applications either through the console (as pictured below), or with our management SDKs.