Authentication

SAP Mobile Platform uses standard HTTPS protocol to integrate into the existing security landscape without disruption.

Rather than including an identity management and password and user access rights subsystem, SAP Mobile Platform provides features to integrate with your existing user and permissions stores so you can continue to use your existing user administration tools in conjunction with SAP Mobile Platform. Clients, administrators, and back-end systems can authenticate to SAP Mobile Platform Server using:

• Basic Authentication
  Basic authentication is user name and password based.
• X.509 Certificate Authentication
  X.509 is client certificate authentication requiring an HTTPS connection to SAP Mobile Platform. SAP Mobile Platform can authenticate users based on their personal X.509 certificates.
• Single Sign-on and Token-based Authentication
  Single sign-on is token-based authentication where an SSO token, opaque to SAP Mobile Platform, is passed in an HTTP header or cookie