SSO Setup Suite, geo-based auth, and other product updates
Auth Thoughts is a monthly newsletter produced by Team Descope, the collective consciousness of everyone at Descope. Read on for product updates, tutorials, and a monthly roundup from the world of identity and authentication.
Descope changelog
To paraphrase a quote from Dory the forgetful fish: “Just keep shipping”. Here are some of the latest product updates from Descope:
??SSO Setup Suite
It’s time to turn your customer tenant admins into SSO superheroes! With the Descope SSO Setup Suite (also called S4), you can send unique portal links to every B2B customer for self-service SSO and SCIM setup.?
?15+ pre-built IdP guides
?User attribute and group mapping
?SSO domain selection and testing
?Light and dark mode
Your customers can now set up SSO and SCIM connections entirely on their own, shortening a weeks-long process to a few minutes for everyone involved! What will you do with the extra time?
??Multi-SSO configurations per tenant
You can now add multiple SSO configurations for each tenant! Supporting multiple IdPs, protocols, and configurations per tenant allows you to support customers that have undergone recent M&A activity, operate in different geos with their own user stores, and other similar complex environments.
?? Geo-based auth flows
Customers have always been able to create branching user paths in their Descope Flows based on the end user’s geolocation. We now have two templates leveraging this capability: to block logins from embargoed countries, and to show different auth methods based on geolocation respectively. Check them out (+ 100s of others) in our Flow Library!
Keep an eye on our changelog for ongoing product announcements. Have questions? Join our community and visit the #ask-a-descoper channel.
Turn customer identity into an ecommerce enabler
We know how to turn ecommerce frowns upside down with customer identity. Join our webinar on March 13 at 10AM PT for actionable tips on how to:
?? Increase top-of-funnel visibility by tracking anonymous users
?? Grow signups and retention with passwordless auth
?? Provide omnichannel journeys across web, mobile, and third-party apps
Developer central?
Looking for help on how to integrate Descope for a particular framework or general auth best practices? Our DevRel team and developer community has you covered.
?? Add auth and SSO to Shiny: This tutorial goes through how to add both SAML and OIDC to Posit Connect and secure your Shiny apps.
??Add auth and SSO to Flet: This tutorial shows how to secure your Flet apps with magic links, social logins, and SSO with Descope.
?? Build secure apps with Next.js + Supabase + Descope: Learn how to build a simple todo list app with Next.js, Descope, and Supabase Row-Level Security.
Customer spotlight: Auth at concert scale
Sometimes you just need auth that’s quick to scale up, quick to scale down, and does what you need it to do. This is what a global entertainment company with 28K+ employees sought for two high-volume UK music festivals. They chose Descope for:
?SDK-only integration
?OTP flexibility with multiple providers
?Deep logs, error handling, and audits
Helpful resources
Thanks for reading Auth Thoughts! If you’d like any other updates from the world of identity and authentication included in this newsletter, please let us know in the comments below.
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?? Developer blogs for tutorials with specific frameworks or auth methods
?? Documentation, for setup guides, SDK code snippets, and more
See you next month!