Single Logout

Single logout is a security capability designed to terminate all active user sessions across connected applications and services when a user logs out, rather than ending access to only a single application. In environments where users authenticate once and gain access to multiple systems, single logout addresses a common gap left by traditional sign-out processes: residual sessions that remain active after a user believes they have fully logged out. By enabling logout everywhere and enforcing logout of all sessions, organizations reduce the risk of unintended access caused by stale or orphaned sessions that persist across applications.

The importance of a logout everywhere function becomes more pronounced as organizations scale identity adoption across cloud services, administrative consoles, and third-party platforms. Large enterprises, universities, and healthcare systems often manage thousands of credentials and concurrent sessions per user. Without a coordinated way to reset sessions, users may remain authenticated in downstream systems even after exiting a primary portal. Ensuring logout completeness is critical in these environments, where shared devices, role changes, and shift-based work increase the likelihood that an unattended session could be exploited.

Single logout improves security by providing a clear and enforceable end to authenticated access. When implemented correctly, it ensures logout everywhere by synchronizing session termination across supported applications and identity providers. This reduces exposure from forgotten browser tabs, background sessions, or administrative consoles that remain open beyond their intended use. From a security operations perspective, the ability to reliably reset sessions also supports stronger access controls, clearer audit trails, and greater confidence that access truly ends when a user signs out.

Within Imprivata environments, single logout is designed to improve security by ensuring logout completeness across supported platforms. When a user logs out of the Imprivata Access Management Portal, they are also logged out of their external identity provider and any Imprivata admin consoles accessed during that session. This coordinated logout of all sessions helps reduce the risk associated with unintended or stale access. Support for single logout is available for the Imprivata Access Intelligence Platform (AIP), Enterprise Access Management (EAM), Imprivata Patient Access (PA), and Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR).

By integrating single logout into its access and identity security approach, Imprivata helps organizations close a commonly overlooked gap in session management. Rather than relying on users to manually sign out of every system, Imprivata solutions ensure logout everywhere across supported applications, reinforcing secure access management practices and helping organizations maintain stronger control over authenticated sessions as their environments grow more complex.