Application Flow:
- The user goes to a web page where a particular service or application is offered.
- User clicks the link to go to authentication page.
- User tranferred to websec server, has 45 seconds to respond.
- Web-security module authenticates the user or fails.
- Successful authentication give user a continuation screen which contains a hidden token which is stored in a database.
- User submits the form and is taken to first screen of application. Token is passed to the application.
- Application can check the validity of the token as often as it likes.
- Token are eventually removed or expired from the token database.