Authentication policies in Atlassian Access

There are many reasons to have multiple authentication policies within an organization and the main ones are to:

• designate policies to specific user subsets
• test authentication setting functionality

Admins have the flexibility to define multiple authentication policies and apply them to different subsets of users in the organization to ensure each set of users have the appropriate level of security.

A separate authentication policy can be set up to test a SAML configuration by enabling single sign-on for a small test group before rolling it out to the whole organization.