Executive Summary
High‑level findings, risk score, remediation status, and critical timelines for stakeholders.
A concise SSO report clarifies authentication risk, supports regulatory reviews, and documents controls for auditors and downstream application owners. It reduces response time for incidents and creates an auditable record of identity configurations and changes.
The report serves multiple stakeholders across IT, security, compliance, and business units; structure it so each audience can locate their required information quickly.
Keep executive summaries short and put technical details in appendices so non‑technical reviewers and auditors can validate controls without parsing configuration dumps.
High‑level findings, risk score, remediation status, and critical timelines for stakeholders.
List identity providers, relying parties, application owners, certificate expiration dates, and provisioning sources.
SAML/OIDC endpoints, assertion attributes, audience restrictions, signature/encryption settings, and token lifetimes.
MFA coverage, conditional access rules, device posture, and legacy protocols still enabled (e.g., basic auth).
Relevant logs, recent change history, test sign-in traces, and screenshots or exports of SSO metadata.
Prioritized remediation tasks, owners, target dates, and verification steps post-remediation.
| Field | Configuration |
|---|---|
| SSO Protocol | SAML 2.0 | OIDC | OAuth2 selection per app |
| IdP Metadata URL | Public metadata endpoint or export location |
| Assertion Audience | Expected audience (SP entity ID) value |
| Certificate Expiry | Expiry date (MM/DD/YYYY) for signing cert |
Identify required platform integrations and technical prerequisites so application teams can prepare changes.
| signNow | DocuSign | Adobe Sign | PandaDoc | HelloSign | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting Price | $8/user/mo | $15/user/mo | $14/user/mo | $19/user/mo | $15/user/mo |
| Free Trial | Yes, 7-day trial | No | No | Yes, limited | Yes, limited |
| Bulk Send | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Audit Trail | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA Compliant | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Optica’s team adopted a standardized SSO report to consolidate vendor integrations and evidence.
Xerox integrated SSO inventory into NetSuite change processes to track ownership and approvals.