Core engineering benefits for teams
Seamless user experience
Reduce friction for portal access.
Centralized authentication
Manage user credentials in one secure system.
Scalable access management
Support multiple users and portals simultaneously.
Enhanced security
Enforce multi-factor authentication and session controls.
Explore related resources
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Tutorial
Configure Hosted Login (Node.js) – Step-by-step tutorial on setting up Catalyst Authentication with hosted login, social logins, and secure sign-in elements for your application.
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Help Documents
Catalyst Authentication Docs – Official help guide on Catalyst Authentication, including hosted/embedded login, user management, roles, secure access control, and identity provider support.
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Webinar
Catalyst Webinar Series – Serverless & Auth Patterns – A general webinar series covering serverless functions, authentication, API integrations, and event-driven systems foundations (topics vary by session).
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Cookbook
Authentication & Authorization with Catalyst – Cookbook recepie explaining authentication and authorization fundamentals using Catalyst’s built-in systems.
Key Catalyst components
Catalyst AppSail & Custom Runtime
Deploy fully customized login flows and authentication logic built in any web framework or language, ensuring flexible and secure application hosting.
Catalyst Authentication
Enable federated identity and secure single sign-on (SSO) by integrating with enterprise identity providers (IdPs) using standard protocols such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Catalyst Cloud Scale ensures the underlying infrastructure remains secure, scalable, and highly available.
Catalyst Signals
Trigger event-driven session management workflows, such as login alerts, suspicious activity notifications, or automated access controls in real time.
Catalyst Data Store
Store and maintain detailed audit logs of login events, user access activity, and session history to support compliance, monitoring, and reporting requirements.
Frequently asked questions
Catalyst supports three authentication methods: Hosted Authentication, Embedded Authentication, and Third-party Authentication. Applications can enable one or more of these methods depending on their login requirements.
Yes. Inbuilt Catalyst Authentication service has features like social logins such as Google, Zoho, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Microsoft 365 by configuring OAuth credentials from the identity provider.
Yes. Developers can customize hosted login elements by adding company logos, colors, and styling so the authentication pages match the application’s branding.
Yes. Using Third-party Authentication, applications can integrate external identity providers and implement custom authentication logic based on external identity systems.
Yes. Catalyst allows applications to configure multiple authentication types, such as combining hosted login with third-party authentication or social logins.