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Enabling Cross App Access for SAML-Based Enterprise Apps

calendar_today July 3, 2026 person domain okta

This guide covers implementing Cross App Access (XAA) for SAML-federated applications without migrating to OpenID Connect. It explains the Identity Assertion Authorization Grant (ID-JAG), a short-lived JWT that lets resource servers identify users and issue scoped access tokens while preserving existing SAML integrations, without refresh tokens.

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