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PingFederate (zip): 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, 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
TechNet Webcast: Identity Management in Windows Server 2003 R2 Active Directory Federation Services (Level 200): An identity management scenario in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 is used to demonstrate how Active Directory Federation Services ADFS provides Web-based extranet authentication/authorization, Single Sign-On SSO, and federated identity services for Windows Server environments. After briefly reviewing Active Directory Application Mode ADAM and UNIX Identity Management features, this webcast...; Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Identity Federation, Microsoft Corp., Single Sign-on, Microsoft TechNet, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Webcasts 2006-09-29
Responding to Dana's views on federated identity: Responding to Dana's views on federated identityFederation vs User-centric?Hey Andre, perhaps the key message from Dana's post is that Federation is not solving the problem and that a user-centric approach is needed? I know that is likely hard to see given that your firm sells federation technology, but perhaps the...; Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Dana, identity federation; Discussion threads 2006-09-01
Responding to Dana's views on federated identity: Blog note: This is a guest column that comes to us from Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity corporation.I read with frustration a recent article posted by Dana Blankenhorn titled "Too late for federated identityâ€?. Perhaps my reaction was mostly to the title, which assumed to make broad stroke assessments...; Tags: federated identity, identity federation; Blog posts 2006-09-01
Too late for federated identity?: Too late for federated identity?The right time for Liberty"[...] what about the Liberty Alliance? They are still around. Sun was one of the original sponsors. Have you used that lately? I haven't."Ask the average person in the street if they've used TCP/IP lately. Or GSM. Or CDMA.The thing with...; Tags: identity federation, federation, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-08-29
Too late for federated identity?: Sun has released its Single Sign On technology under the CDDL, giving it the name Open Source Single Sign On Open SSO, with a roadmap that would make it a federated identity solution across multiple sites. The code is based on its Java System Access Manager. The question I have...; Tags: CDDL, identity federation; Blog posts 2006-08-29
Extend the Value of System z Investments Through Federated Identity Management Solutions From Tivoli Software: Many companies are adopting Web services and Service Oriented Architectures SOAs as they participate in external interactions with other trading partners. An SOA leverages open standards to represent software assets as services; in turn, organizations use standardized Web protocols to communicate across boundaries to provide access to these services. Existing...; Tags: Tivoli Software, Identity Federation, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Asset Management, Middleware, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance; White papers 2006-07-01
Oracle Identity Federation: Oracle Identity Federation provides a self-contained federation solution that combines the ease of use and portability of a stand-alone application with a scalable, standards-based proven interoperable architecture. As businesses become global and move towards business models with closer relationships with partners, suppliers and customers, the issue of establishing secure and...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Identity Federation, Oracle Identity Federation; White papers 2006-06-01
The Business Value of Identity Federation: Efficiently coordinating and integrating business processes with trading partners in an increasingly dynamic business environment is a complex dilemma faced by most large enterprises. Identity federation and the industry standards that comprise it were invented to address this cross domain, application interoperability challenge. This paper introduces and defines identity federation;...; Tags: Identity Federation, Computer Associates International Inc.; White papers 2006-01-01
Samo samo for SAML: no Microsoft: The Liberty Alliance Project just announced that products from IBM, NEC, NTT and RSA Security have passed the SAML 2.0 interoperability testing that the consortium has been sponsoring. (ZDNet report here.) However, it looks like Microsoft won't be coming to this party any time soon. The software giant won't even...; Tags: WS-Federation, SAML; Blog posts 2005-11-21
TechNet Webcast: Web Single Sign-on and Identity Federation With Active Directory Federation Services (Level 200): Organizations are extending their Information Technology IT infrastructure to provide partners with Web-based access to Web-facing applications. This presents IT with difficult administrative and security challenges. This webcast provides an overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Active Directory Federation Services, a component that enables Extranet Single Sign-On SSO and...; Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Webcast, Identity Federation, Extranet, Microsoft Corp., Single Sign-on, Microsoft TechNet, Authentication/Encryption, Security; Webcasts 2005-10-13