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Achieving Privacy in a Federated Identity Management System

Federated identity management allows a user to efficiently authenticate and use identity information from data distributed across multiple domains. The sharing of data across domains blurs security boundaries and potentially creates privacy risks. The paper examines privacy risks and fundamental privacy protections of federated identity-management systems. The protections include minimal...

Tags: Identity Federation, Privacy, Privacy Protection, Federated Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2009-03-27

Assurance for Federated Identity Management

Federated Identity Management is an emerging paradigm that is rightly getting a lot of standardization and research attention. One aspect that is not receiving enough attention is assurance. The paper provides an exposition of the assurance process, how it applies to identity management and particularly to federated identity management. Their...

Tags: Identity Federation, Federated Identity Management

White papers 2008-03-20

RSA Federated Identity Manager: A Technical Overview

Federated identity management extends the management of digital identities for authorization and access beyond domain and corporate boundaries to externally hosted or managed applications and resources. This paper summarizes the concepts underlying federated identity, explores the standards and specifications that are emerging to support identity federation, including the Security Assertion...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Identity Federation, Federated Identity Management

White papers 2007-07-01

Sponsored whiteboard - Federated Identity Management

Federated Identity ManagementEric Leach, senior group product manager at Oracle, explains how Oracle Identity Federation manages internal and external authentication, promoting trust relationships between business partners.

Tags: identity federation, Federated Identity Management

Sponsored whiteboards 2007-04-19

Federated identity management and Web services

Federated identity management and Web servicesWho is providing the service?Looks like the right thing to have. Who ever is providing the service will be blessed and also get rich.Will we still need PKI Payment Gateways?Strange - no mention of LibertyI would have expected this article to mention the Liberty...

Tags: Federated Identity Management, identity federation, Web service, Who-ever, Web

Discussion threads 2005-01-17

Additional Resources

HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely

HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., HP Software, IT Department, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-17

Why the password system hasn't died (yet)

Identity management is one helluva paradox. In your daily work life you don't sweat things like smart cards, one-time password tokens and USB tokens. Once you go home as a consumer you're straining to remember your 20th log-in and password. Google's Cem Paya, who serves on the...

Tags: Password, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Employee HR Intranet Is Protected by Suite of RSA Security Solutions

In a fast-paced financial services environment, employees need to be as efficient as possible. Waiting on crowded phone lines for information about 401k accounts, health insurance plans or vacation status obviously cut heavily into their productivity. An intranet that provided simple yet secure access would let employees quickly retrieve the...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Human Resources Inc., 401(k), Retirement Plans, Security Administration, Human Resources, Benefits, Security

Case studies 2009-01-01

5 Steps to Secure Internet SSO

Employees today may need to access up to thirty different applications within the enterprise network and over the Internet in the performance of their daily jobs - often with different usernames and passwords for each one. Such a situation is not only cumbersome; it is inherently insecure, being especially vulnerable...

Tags: Identity Federation, Ping Identity, Internet

White papers 2008-11-13

Federated Identity and Software as a Service (SaaS): Single Sign-On to the Cloud

As companies seek efficient ways to cut costs, many are turning to Software as a Service SaaS as an option for outsourcing certain types of IT services, like sales management, human resource management, customer relations management and more. IT implications for SaaS adoption include new provisioning and security challenges, as...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, Identity Federation, Single Sign-on, Ping Identity, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2008-11-04

The National Ministry of Education Relies Upon RSA to Rationalise Identity Management

The French Ministry of Education is made up of 1,255,698 employees spread across 30 local education authorities. It incorporates 9,636 colleges and lycees, and 55,667 ecoles, equating to 12 million school children and 2.2 million college students. As part of the state's mission to make information systems accessible to the...

Tags: Education, RSA Security Inc., Identity Management, French Ministry Of Education, Authentication/Encryption, Security Administration, Security

Case studies 2008-11-01

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

The Primer: Nuts and Bolts of Federated Identity Management

For any IT department, it is imperative to understand how organization can securely manage and control users' identities. With so many employees accessing up to thirty different resources over the Internet to do their daily jobs - often with thirty different usernames and passwords - organizations are struggling to maintain...

Tags: Identity Federation, Ping Identity

White papers 2008-07-31

SSO Over the Internet: The CISO's Misperceptions and Realities

Ping Identity conducted anonymous interviews of seventeen Chief Information Security Officers CISOs and Information Security Officers across financial services, healthcare, education, insurance and business services. What it learned was surprising: many of the survey participants share three common misperceptions about secure Internet Single Sign-On SSO. This paper identifies those misperceptions...

Tags: Information Security, Identity Federation, Officer, Survey, Single Sign-on, Ping Identity, Internet, Authentication/Encryption, Security Administration, Security

White papers 2008-07-31

Standards support for mashups emerge

The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing...

Tags: Standards, Mashup, DataPortability.org, OpenSAM, OpenSAM Vision, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Federated Identity Through the Eyes of the Deployer

As a deployer, one manages a software application accessed daily by thousands of employees or millions of consumers. For every one of them the user manages an account record, check credentials, control access to sensitive data or functions, and personalize the application's interface and behavior. For every one of them...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Identity Federation, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2008-02-29

openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?

openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?Well, that's historyObviously, this will be one of the first things to go under the new management. Microsoft already has their online identity roadmap, and this isn't it.Federated identity: B2C or B2B?You'd have thought that the lack of an open standards process...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Phishing, SECURITY, VeriSign Inc., Yahoo! Inc., OpenID, openID, single sign-on, future enterprise

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?

The decision two weeks ago by Yahoo! to support the burgeoning openid initiative, where users choose their preferred user account provider for logging into other Web sites, was a defining moment for the increasingly popular effort to bring order and sanity to the often confusing world of user identity on...

Tags: Account, Web, Site, Worker, Single Sign-on, Identity, Enterprise, Channel Management, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Automatic Compliance of Privacy Policies in Federated Digital Identity Management

Privacy in the digital world is an important problem which is becoming even more pressing as new collaborative applications are developed. The lack of privacy preserving mechanisms is particularly problematic in federated identity management contexts. In such a context, users can seamlessly interact with a variety of federated web services,...

Tags: Compliance, Identity Federation, Digital Identity

White papers 2008-02-01

On Identity Assurance in the Presence of Federated Identity Management Systems

This paper addresses the appropriate management of risk in federated identity management systems by presenting an identity assurance framework and supporting technologies. The paper starts by discussing the risk mitigation framework that should be part of any identity assurance solution. The authors then demonstrate how their model based assurance technologies...

Tags: Identity Federation

White papers 2008-01-29