# Validate SAML token in Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [May 22, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validate-saml-token-in-kibana/1185 "2015-05-22T16:44:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![rafrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rafrey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rafrey)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validate-saml-token-in-kibana/1185/8 "2015-11-19T18:04:00Z")
Update: One of your competitors has released native SAML v2.0 SSO/SLO support via the following IdP (which is also capable of many other authentication methods being discussed here): > **[Single Sign-on](https://www.pingidentity.com/en/platform/capabilities/single-sign-on.html)** > > Learn how single sign-on (SSO) can increase security and employee productivity, while improving your customer experience. For most use cases, using an authentication proxy does no good if you still need to make an LDAP endpoint available for authorization. I see this as a barrier to adoption at large organizations that require SAML auth for production systems hosted in public clouds and I am hoping that in consideration of that and the recent adoption of this functionality by competing solutions will allow for this to receive a higher priority within the Elasticsearch project and that you will share this information with your project managers. I also believe that this needs to be implemented in Sheild per: > [@SAML support, custom authentication plugins](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saml-support-custom-authentication-plugins/1813): > > This question has been raised in the Kibana community already: IMHO, it affects Elasticsearch and Shield as well. Does Shield provide an interface where I can handle the authentication process (validate SAML token) and then provide Shield the roles the user has by parsing the attributes in the SAML token. Can you please provide us with a status update on this work? An ETA would be excellent. Thank you. -- Rob Frey --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validate-saml-token-in-kibana/1185)._