Introduction

Catalyst powers developers by enabling them to implement any third-party authentication service like WatchGuard AuthPoint, Cisco Secure Access by Duo, The Okta Identity Cloud, etc., in their Catalyst application. Catalyst will provide the necessary back-end support and scripts you require to securely incorporate a third-party authentication service of your choice.

The authorization and validation of the end-user is handled by the third-party service, and the data is passed on to Catalyst. Catalyst will provide you with server-side and client-side scripts to generate a required custom token with the authenticated user’s details, and to process the token in the front-end of the application respectively, to log the user in.

Benefits

• Authentication provides you with all the required scripts to generate custom tokens to incorporate third-party authentication into your Catalyst application. This saves you considerable efforts in configuring the logic from the third-party service within your application.

• You can easily incorporate any third-party authentication service and add end users to your Catalyst application. This provides you with limitless flexibility, and allows you to pick a service of your choice based on your business requirements.

• If you have an existing subscription with a third-party authentication service, you can easily use the same for your Catalyst application.

• The scripts to generate the custom server token is available in multiple programming languages —Java , Node.js and Python . This provides compatibility with your existing application code, and allows you to easily incorporate the script in a language of your preference.