Patent ID: 11870767
Assignee: F5, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing adaptive authentication for federated environment, the method implemented by a network traffic management system comprising one or more network traffic apparatuses, client devices, or server devices, the method comprising:
receiving a request to access an application from a client;
identifying a web application server in which the requested application is executing and obtaining data associated with the requesting client;
generating a federated authentication request comprising an index unique to the identified web application server, the requested application, and the obtained client data, wherein the index is mapped to an access policy within a memory of the web application server;
authenticating the requesting client on a separate IDP server using the generated federated authentication request by using a federated token that maps to the identified web application server, the requested application, and the obtained client data and by using the mapping between the index and the access policy; and
validating the authentication prior to providing the client access to the application, wherein the validating the authentication further comprises sending a communication to the identified web application server to verify an assertion or the federated token of the generated federated authentication request.