What is SAML and what is it used for? The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows security credentials to be shared by multiple computers across a network. It ...

Digital identity is becoming increasingly important as enterprises strive to protect and control access to online resources. A series of maturing standards is helping make identity management and ...

Choosing between SAML, OIDC, and OAuth 2.0? Explore 12 critical differences to help your B2B engineering team select the right authentication protocol today.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced that products ...

Until this year, identity federation has suffered from the problem of too many standards. Companies that deployed federation before the fourth quarter were forced to deal with five incompatible ...

Microsoft is paving the way for the use of alternative identity federation approaches with Office 365 apps and Microsoft Office apps. Those alternative approaches are being facilitated by the addition ...

Microsoft PR contacted Microsoft Subnet today to clarify some questions we raised in a post earlier this month, “Microsoft “Geneva” could be genius but skeptics abound.” On May 11, Microsoft announced ...

Sept. 30, 2009 " Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance today announced that identity products from Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens have passed Liberty Interoperable ...

Microsoft's federated identity platform passed its first SAML 2.0 interoperability test; the company previously shunned the protocol for WS-Federation Microsoft’s federated identity platform passed ...

Microsoft will stick by the set of protocols it has picked for identity federation, a concept that includes single sign-on (SSO) for several different Web portals and secure transfers of data between ...