Spotfire Server: Is there a way to configure multifactor authentication using SAML?

This article confirms that SAML authentication is not supported out of the box for Spotfire. We support using OIDC for web authentication. But you can write a custom authenticator for use with external authentication, following an example from the Spotfire community.

Details:

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication is not supported out of the box for Spotfire.
But you can write a custom authenticator for use with external authentication.
Spotfire does support OIDC (OpenID Connect) for web authentication.

 

Resolution:

You can find an example of how to setup Spotfire to use SAML in the following Spotfire community article:

https://community.spotfire.com/articles/spotfire/saml2-integration-spotfire-example-shibboleth/

If you have questions about that example, you can post a question in the Spotfire community.

We also encourage you to vote for the following idea in the Spotfire Ideas Portal:

https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/SPF-I-4853 ('Native SAML authentication support')

Spotfire Product Management owns the Ideas Portal, and pays close attention to each idea and the votes and comments it receives.