The Pega Platform offers the following authentication types:

PRBasic

Based on passwords in the Operator ID data instances and the login form. This is defined by the HTML @baseclass.Web-Login rule, which your application can override.

PRSecuredBasic

Similar to PRBasic, but passes credentials by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with Basic HTTP authentication. The login form is defined by the HTML @baseclass.Web-Login-SecuredBasic rule, which your application can override.

PRCustom

Supports access to an external LDAP directory or a custom authentication scheme.

PRExtAssign

Supports external assignments (Directed Web Access).

J2EEContext

Specifies that the application server in which the Pega Platform is deployed uses JAAS to authenticate users.