# Supabase — What is SAML? A practical guide to the authentication protocol

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-01-17
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/what-is-saml-authentication
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21454-what-is-saml-a-practical-guide-to-the-authentication-protocol
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase published a practical guide explaining the SAML authentication protocol, how it works, and how it differs from SSO. The post uses a story about a company setting up SAML between Supabase and GSuite to illustrate the information exchange required.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://supabase.com/blog/what-is-saml-authentication:

> SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is one such protocol that helps to facilitate SSO between an identity provider and a service provider.

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