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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

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

Performance Tuning Recommendations for Oracle Identity Federation

Oracle Identity Federation, formerly known as Oblix ShareId, is a federation solution providing a self-contained and flexible multi-protocol federation server deployable with existing identity and access management systems. Federation enables organizations to create virtual communities for their employees as well as customers and partners with SSO capabilities. Federation delegates the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Federation, Identity Federation, Access Management, Identserv, Oracle Identity Federation

White papers 2008-10-01

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

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

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

Muradora: A Turnkey Fedora GUI Supporting Heterogeneous Metadata, Federated Identity, and Flexible Access Control

Fedora's popularity amongst institutions is largely due to its scalability as well as its flexibility in handling heterogeneous data. It is also unique when compared with most other repositories in decoupling the GUI from the core repository backend. This has allowed Fedora to be used in many institutional environments, each...

Tags: Macquarie University, Fedora Project, Identity Federation, GUI, Access Control

White papers 2007-12-08

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

Web Services Security and Federated Identity Authentication

Over the past few years as web services technology has matured, so has its use in complex line of business applications. Projects to create Service Oriented Architecture and Complex Supply Chain Integration are pushing the boundaries of present web services specifications. As organisations and applications using web services collaborate across...

Tags: Web, Identity Federation, Web Service, Web Services Security, Channel Management, Web Services, Security, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-06-17

PingFederate 4.4 (Windows)

PingFederate is the industry-leading, standards-based SAML federated identity server for enabling single sign-on SSO to online services for employees, customers and business partners. No other federated identity solution is as easy to install, integrate and scale. PingFederate reduces complexity, cost, and time-to-production through effortless configuration tools and the broadest range...

Tags: Identity Federation, Microsoft Windows, Ping Identity, PingFederate

Software downloads 2007-05-11

Managing Entitlements: The Next Phase of Application Security

The requirements for providing security access to enterprise applications have evolved dramatically in the past decade. The advent of the Web led to the need to protect the perimeter of the enterprise with technology principally focused on "Keeping the bad guys out." The introduction of Web security and single sign-on...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Identity Federation, Single Sign-on, Application Security, Enterprise Application, Authentication/Encryption, Security

White papers 2007-04-27

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

A Grid Authorization Model for Science Gateways

Since the number of TeraGrid Science Gateways is expected to grow at least an order of magnitude in the next few years, a lightweight gateway deployment model is sought, one that facilitates growth but meets the security requirements of the TeraGrid. This paper present a new authorization model for science...

Tags: University Of Illinois, Authorization, Middleware, Identity Federation

White papers 2007-04-11

Federated Identity, Distributed PKI and Smart Cards

This paper considers authentication systems based on smart cards, where the smart cards will be issued by many organizations, and authentication must work at any location. An important example of this type of deployment is the US Government planned deployment in support of HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. Federated...

Tags: Smart Card, Identity Federation, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, PKI, Security

White papers 2007-01-01

Microsoft Webcast: Web Single Sign-On and Identity Federation With Active Directory Federation Services

This webcast provides IT managers with an overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Active Directory Federation Services ADFS, a component that enables extranet Single Sign-On SSO and identity federation. The presenter shows how extranet SSO technology enables access control in an unmanaged, non-domain environment and provides security and personalization...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Webcast, Identity Federation, Microsoft Corp., Single Sign-on, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Webcasts 2006-11-27

Federation enters a new phase

Two recent releases in the federated identity marketplace caught my eye -- and may speak to the development of federation deployments:1. Ping Identity announced that the U.S. Department of Justice selected them to provide federation to over 7,300 local law enforcement agencies and 700,000 law enforcement officials. (Disclosure: I was...

Tags: Web services, federation, identity federation, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Federated identity hubs

Federated identity hubsDefine Federation HubI think we have different understandings of what actually constitutes a true Federation Hub. Could you please be more specific about your definition? From my cursory glance of InCommon's web page, it looks more like a federation provider than a hub to connect disparate...

Tags: identity federation

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

Federated identity hubs

Network World has a story on the growing use of Shibboleth, the federation standard with roots in the Internet2 project. The article highlights InCommon, a federation hub for educational institutions. Its not just institutions of higher education who are members of InCommon, however. The federation hub...

Tags: federation

Blog posts 2006-10-17

Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Federated Identity Management (FIM)

Business requirements seem to accelerate on a daily basis. Leading companies remain ready to respond to customer whims, outsource business processes, improve internal controls, and respond to changing regulations. Legacy IT infrastructure simply wasn't designed to fill nowadays business requirements but it is ludicrous to suggest "Ripping and replacing" valuable...

Tags: Identity Federation, SOA, Enterprise Strategy Group, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-10-01