What is the best practice for managing user access to FDI when integrating with Fusion Application SSO?

What is the best practice for managing user access to FDI when integrating with Fusion Application SSO?

• A. Create users with specific FDI access in the identity domain associated with your FDI instance.
• B. Reuse Fusion identities for FDI access.
• C. Use local OS accounts and ignore SSO.
• D. Disable SSO for FDI only.

Answer: (A)

Centralized identity management with single sign-on is the solid foundation for secure and consistent access to integrated applications. When integrating FDI with Fusion Application SSO, it’s essential that identities and their access are defined within the identity domain that corresponds to your FDI instance. This alignment ensures that authentication tokens from the central SSO flow are valid for FDI, and that provisioning, deprovisioning, and role or group mappings flow through the same governance model as the rest of Fusion Applications. Defining users with specific FDI access in the identity domain tied to your FDI instance enables proper lifecycle management—creating, updating, and removing access as people join or leave, and adjusting permissions through the same controls you use for Fusion Apps. It also supports accurate auditing, since every FDI action is performed by a user who exists in the centralized identity domain and whose SSO session and privileges are consistently managed. Using Fusion identities for FDI access can blur boundaries between applications and complicate authorization, potentially leading to inappropriate access if the mappings aren’t perfectly aligned. Relying on local OS accounts and bypassing SSO breaks the unified authentication model, removes centralized accountability, and undermines security policies. Disabling SSO for FDI alone creates a split in authentication discipline, making it harder to enforce consistent security rules across the ecosystem. So, the best practice is to create and manage FDI user accounts within the identity domain associated with your FDI instance, leveraging the Fusion Application SSO framework for seamless, auditable access control.

Centralized identity management with single sign-on is the solid foundation for secure and consistent access to integrated applications. When integrating FDI with Fusion Application SSO, it’s essential that identities and their access are defined within the identity domain that corresponds to your FDI instance. This alignment ensures that authentication tokens from the central SSO flow are valid for FDI, and that provisioning, deprovisioning, and role or group mappings flow through the same governance model as the rest of Fusion Applications.

Defining users with specific FDI access in the identity domain tied to your FDI instance enables proper lifecycle management—creating, updating, and removing access as people join or leave, and adjusting permissions through the same controls you use for Fusion Apps. It also supports accurate auditing, since every FDI action is performed by a user who exists in the centralized identity domain and whose SSO session and privileges are consistently managed.

Using Fusion identities for FDI access can blur boundaries between applications and complicate authorization, potentially leading to inappropriate access if the mappings aren’t perfectly aligned. Relying on local OS accounts and bypassing SSO breaks the unified authentication model, removes centralized accountability, and undermines security policies. Disabling SSO for FDI alone creates a split in authentication discipline, making it harder to enforce consistent security rules across the ecosystem.

So, the best practice is to create and manage FDI user accounts within the identity domain associated with your FDI instance, leveraging the Fusion Application SSO framework for seamless, auditable access control.