Your authentication method will depend on the required balance between user security and convenience.
You have several options for user authentication with Jive for Office. The method you choose
depends on your security requirements and user convenience.
Basic Authentication
With basic authentication, credentials are saved
locally and passed in Base64 format with each http request. This method is the most convenient
(because credentials only need to be provided once), but the least secure.
Session-Based Authentication
Session-based authentication saves
credentials using a cookie, which expires according to the policy you set in Jive or in your
SSO implementation. Session-based authentication is much more secure than basic
authentication, but can require users to provide credentials frequently.