Patent 9544311 was granted and assigned to SAP SE on January, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for providing secure identity propagation in a cloud-based computing environment. One computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a user, a first security response message, transmitting, to the user in response to receiving the first security response message, a second security response message, wherein the second security response message comprises a Token Granting Token (TGT), receiving, from a cloud application, a Service Token (ST) request, wherein the ST request comprises the TGT, verifying the ST request based on the TGT, generating, in response to the verifying, a ST, wherein the ST is used to validate an access request to access a backend system, and transmitting the ST to the cloud application.