Federated Identity

Develop – Educate – Blueprint – Prepare Federated identity is a key technology for linking identity systems across security boundaries to provide single sign-on, account linking, and other benefits. While many enterprises are moving forward with federation projects, the landscape of vendor products, standards, and specifications continues to mature rapidly.

The documents in stage 1 provide information on the standards and specification landscape as well as outlining the business benefits for implementing federation.

Documents

  • Federation in the Field: A Progress Report
  • Federating in a Distributed World: Asserting Next Generation Identity Standards
  • Multiprotocol Federated Identity Interoperability Demonstration


Design – Construct – Diagram Federated identity is a key technology for linking identity systems across security boundaries to provide single sign-on, account linking, and other benefits. While many enterprises are moving forward with federation projects, the landscape of vendor products, standards, and specifications continues to mature rapidly.


The documents in stage 2 provide guidance for designing federation deployments from a technical as well as business perspective.

Documents

  • TP: Federation
  • Federated Identity: Early Adopter Case Studies and Lessons Learned
  • Federated Identity Tutorial
  • Building Federation Business Agreements (coming in 1Q07)


Assess – Evaluate – Compare Federated identity is a key technology for linking identity systems across security boundaries to provide single sign-on, account linking, and other benefits. While many enterprises are moving forward with federation projects, the landscape of vendor products, standards, and specifications continues to mature rapidly.

The documents in stage 3 provide information on browser-based federation products and information on federation standards.

The documents included in Stage 3 provide product reports that detail specific technologies related to the implementation of an ESB strategy.

Documents

  • Federation Products: Building Blocks of a Growing Federation Ecosystem
  • SAML 2.0: Convergence Point for Browser Federation
  • Internet2’s Shibboleth Focuses on Higher Education


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