Identity Federation

Today, the Internet, Internet technology and standards have matured to the point that effective coordination and mass integration between trading partners is now achievable and affordable. This white paper discusses these issues in depth and explains the role of federated identity in general.

Effective identity federation benefits both users and enterprises. It provides the end-user with a seamless cross-domain Internet experience through single sign-on and it allows the enterprise to expose resources to a larger class of users not directly administered by the enterprise. Learn more in this white paper.

This paper is aimed at IT staff, application development managers, security architects and technical decision makers who need to learn more about identity federation and the industry standards that formalize federated environments.

In this podcast you will learn what Identity Federation is, what the value of Federation is and how organizations and governments are using it today. This podcast will address the following questions: What is Federation?  Why are organizations federating? What are Federation challenges and ways to overcome these challenges?

Single Sign-On (SSO) technology is fast evolving and increasingly must integrate with other identity and access management solutions. But how? Replay this interactive webcast about key SSO capabilities and requirements for working with other IAM solutions.

Today’s enterprises rarely operate alone. Partnerships, outsourcing, external contractors and suppliers, and other cooperative agreements are all vital to today’s enterprises. These agreements generally require collaboration and interoperation, both organizationally and between their IT resources. They require the ability for users in one organization to easily work with resources provided by another.

IDC explores the complexities specific to Web-based transactions and evolving Web-driven ecosystems. IDC  research highlights the solutions available today to achieve security, scalability, management, and compliance within these environments. All of this must be accomplished while providing the end user with a smooth and painless access experience.

CA SiteMinder Web Access Manager provides policy based authentication and authorisation, supports multiple advanced authentication techniques, identity federation, and single sign on for Web applications. Traditionally, access management infrastructure has been developed separately for each Web application, leading to duplication and limited control and audit capability. SiteMinder provides centralised capabilities plus extensive additional facilities. Butler Group is impressed with its fine-grained authorisation capabilities, support for advanced authentication techniques, support for a good range of user directories, identity federation based on established standards, and the scalable architecture. Overall, SiteMinder is an impressive solution for mid-sized and large companies who use numerous Web applications to deliver sensitive or business critical data.

The identity federation market enjoys an exceptional supply of products. With well over a dozen products available to enterprise customers, most architects have more choices than time will allow for evaluation. This abundance of products is partly the result of the inherent difficulty of developing a truly multipurpose federation server. Although federation products are similar in name, each has its own personality and idiosyncrasies that make it suitable for certain environments but insufficient in others.

This white paper, intended for a management-level audience, describes why and how any organization can implement secure Internet single sign-on with a federated identity management system. Learn more today!

With the success of single sign-on (SSO) inside the enterprise, users are calling for interoperability outside of the enterprise’s security domain to outsourced services, including business process outsourcing (BPO) and software as a service (SaaS) providers, and trading partners, as well as within the enterprise to affiliates and subsidiaries. Learn more today!

CA SiteMinder is a centralized Web access management system that enables user authentication and single sign-on, policy-based authorization, identity federation, and auditing of access to Web applications and portals.

Web Services are emerging as the preeminent method for program-to-program communication across corporate networks as well as the Internet. Securing web Services has been a challenge until recently, as typical Web authentication and authorization techniques employed browser-to-server architectures (not program-to-program). This resulted in user identity ending at the Web Application Server, forcing the Web Services Provider to trust blindly that the Web Services Requester had established identity and trust with the end user.