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Distinguishing B2B and B2C Authentication: Key Differences

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noleary

11mo ago· 17 min readenOpinion

Summary

The article discusses the differences between authentication (auth) for business software (B2B) and consumer software (B2C), highlighting three key areas of distinction: logical isolation and tenancy models, priorities and trade-offs, and protocols and features.

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Auth for business software (B2B) shouldn’t look the same as auth for consumer software (B2C).
In many cases, it actually can’t work the same way.
Let’s use auth loosely here and let it subsume related stuff like user management.
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Auth for business software (B2B) shouldn’t look the same as auth for consumer software (B2C). In many cases, it actually can’t work the same way.

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