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- In addition to an existing institutional login. SURFsecureID is only used for the 2nd factor. This is especially interesting for use by a central (authentication) facility such as ADFS, Citrix or F5 BIGIP. This facility handles the 1st factor itself and calls SURFsecureID for the 2nd factor if necessary. This makes strong authentication available for a range of internal and external (cloud) services. This option is also called Second Factor Only, especially in the more technical documentation.
- For a (cloud) service. The service outsources the complete login (ie both the 1st and the 2nd factor) to either SURFconext or SURFsecureID. The 1st factor (username / password) via the IdP and the 2nd factor via the available SURFsecureID tokens. The available options are:
a. The cloud service (Service Provider, or SP) is connected to SURFconext which is configured to call SURFsecureID for this service. This makes it especially easy for services already connected to SURFconext to use SURFsecureID as this is transparant for the service. The service can use either SAML or OpenID Connect to connect to SURFconext.
b. The cloud service connects to SURFsecureID. This option is similar to (a) except that it supports dynamic LoA request by the service and only supports SAML.
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