US Patent 12095785 System and methods for detecting SAML forgery or manipulation attacks

A system and methods for detecting and mitigating SAML forgery and manipulation attacks against services is provided, comprising a policy manager 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 unique identifier for each valid authentication session; wherein subsequent access requests accompanied by authentication objects are validated by checking for a valid unique identifier.