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Today, we're pleased to introduce a security feature addition for Heroku pay-as-you-go customers: Single Sign-On (SSO). SSO makes it easy to centralize and manage access to all the various tools and services used by your employees. Previously, SSO was only available for Heroku Enterprise. SSO improves the employee experience in several ways. You can use any identity provider (IdP) with built-in SSO support for Heroku, or custom authentication solutions that support the SAML 2.0 standard.

Cybersecurity Threat Mitigation

Usernames and passwords are prime targets for cybercriminals. Frequently, individuals use the same password across multiple platforms. In the event of a security...

Improving the SSO Experience: CLI Login and Certificate Management

news , Product Marketing Manager

We are happy to announce two major improvements to our SSO experience for Heroku Enterprise customers: easier SSO login for users via the Heroku CLI, and the ability for admins to add more than one certificate at the Enterprise Team level.

Logging into all your different cloud applications can be a pain. We know that many of you like to use Heroku via the command line interface and in your web browser side-by-side, and until now that has meant logging in via SSO separately to each interface. You'll now be redirected from the CLI to the Dashboard to complete your SSO login to Heroku, after which your SSO credentials will be synced.

We've also made the administrative experience for...

SSO for Heroku now in Public Beta

news , Product Management

We're pleased to announce the beta of SSO for Heroku. With this beta, Heroku now supports the current and most widely supported SSO standard known as SAML 2.0, and has partnered with leading identity providers (IdPs) for easy set-up. Customers can use their existing identity provider like Salesforce Identity, Okta, PingOne, Microsoft Active Directory, and PingFederate for their employees' single sign-on to Heroku Enterprise.

SSO for Heroku using Salesforce Identity as IdP

SSO is expected to be generally available in early February. Initially, it will be available to Heroku Enterprise customers. For enterprise customers who want to use the feature during the beta period, it is now available in the "Settings" tab of...

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