Governments are planning regulations on a single digital interface, a so-called Single Digital Gateway, to enable the exchange of data between authorities on a once-only basis. This central digital gateway is designed to drive the development of the market and, above all, the digital market. But there are still data protection concerns about the initiative.
What is the once-only principle?
What do governments want to regulate?
What do the data protection officers say about this?
Benefits of using single sign-on include:
- Mitigate risk for access to 3rd-party sites (user passwords not stored or managed externally)
- Reduce password fatigue from different user name and password combinations
- Reduce time spent re-entering passwords for the same identity
- Reduce IT costs due to lower number of IT help desk calls about passwords
SSO shares centralized authentication servers that all other applications and systems use for authentication purposes and combines this with techniques to ensure that users do not have to actively enter their credentials more than once.