State & Local Government Policy, Business and Technology

Ohio’s Methodical Journey Toward Single Sign-On

Government Technology: Roughly two years after partnering with Deloitte to create a platform that would enable a more secure, and user-friendly digital experience, Ohio officials have rolled out internal single sign-on (SSO) to state employees and external business owners and will integrate key identity records this fall. The move represents an important step toward offering similar public-facing capabilities to residents.

Ohio is well on its way to achieving the larger goal of not just forging a single digital identity across state systems for residents, businesses and employees, but implementing fully formed identity management, said Derek Bridges, program administrator of the Ohio Administrative Knowledge System in the Department of Administrative Services.

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