US Patent 11552968 System and methods for detecting and mitigating golden SAML attacks against federated services

A system and methods for detecting and mitigating golden SAML attacks against federated services is provided, comprising an authentication object inspector configured to observe a new authentication object generated by an identity provider, and retrieve the new authentication object; and a hashing engine configured to create a security cookie for each valid authentication session; wherein subsequent access requests accompanied by authentication objects are validated by checking for a valid security cookie.