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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 291 of 611

Which two security benefits does federation give a relying party? Choose two.

  1. The application no longer needs to authorise requests
  2. The application inherits the identity provider's data classification
  3. Revoking the account at the identity provider cuts access everywhere at once
  4. The application never handles the user's password
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Answer: C. Revoking the account at the identity provider cuts access everywhere at once
D. The application never handles the user's password

Federation moves the credential out of the application and centralises the lifecycle, but each application still authorises.

Source: NIST SP 800-63C Rev. 4 (NIST) — SP 800-63C-4 › Federation Overview

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