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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
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
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
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

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
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
PKI and Federation: Realizing the Best of Both Worlds: This technical paper, designed for solution architects and identity management consultants, compares and contrasts X.509 certificates as used within a Public Key Infrastructure PKI and federated identity deployments that leverage SAML, Open ID, or WS Federation. While X.509 is focused on authentication, federation delivers secure internet SSO and attribute sharing....; Tags: Federation, Identity Federation, Ping Identity, PKI, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking; White papers 2008-01-05
Implementing Secure Internet Single Sign-On: Standalone Server Vs Open Source Toolkits: Ping Identity consistently hears from its customers, partners and even competitors that PingFederate takes significantly less time to deploy than any other federated identity option - including open source toolkits. Furthermore, Ping Identity's hands-on experience with over 100 installations of federated identity, covering virtually all available technology approaches and use...; Tags: Internet, Identity Federation, Server, Ping Identity, Open Source; White papers 2007-12-15
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
Federated Identity Management Helps Open New Horizons for This Industry Exchange: Covisint is a leading provider of services that enable the integration of vital business information and processes between partners, customers and suppliers. RSA Access Manager software provides Covisint with centralized capabilities for managing user access to the portal and member applications; the software is also used for authentication - verifying...; Tags: RSA Security Inc., Covisint, Industry, Identity Federation, Portals, Tools & Techniques, Security Administration, Internet, Management, Security; Case studies 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