Choosing an Authentication Method

Your authentication method will depend on the required balance between user security and convenience.

You have several options for user authentication with Jive for Office. The method you choose depends on your security requirements and user convenience. The best practice is oAuth, because for most users, this method will integrate most securely and seamlessly with an existing SSO implementation. However, the following descriptions provide further information about each method so you can select the best method for your community. For details on configuration, see Setting an Authentication Method.

Basic Authentication

With basic authentication, credentials are saved locally and passed in Base64 format with each http request. This method is the most convenient (because credentials only need to be provided once), but the least secure.

Session-Based Authentication

Session-based authentication saves credentials using a cookie, which expires according to the policy you set in Jive or in your SSO implementation. Session-based authentication is much more secure than basic authentication, but can require users to provide credentials frequently.