Sun today unveiled what it claimed was an "end-to-end solution" to address the "needs for heightened security, privacy and federated identity management. Directory services player Novell has also announced products based on the specifications.
In June, Novell will offer an upgrade to its iChain security management software, adding support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based standard for exchanging security information across different...
It encourages the use of open, federated identities across multiple service providers, while providing the user with a single point of sign on. The Alliance, you may remember, appeared as a response to Microsoft's Passport network identity...
Intel does not sell a federated identity management software product. Such 'federated' security technologies have become more important as companies seek to improve the security and privacy of online networks.
Microsoft will today display software that lets customers sign in to a website and then take their identity with them as they browse the web to other federated sites, a representative said. Federated identity lets companies securely extend their...
Liberty Alliance was formed in 2001 to outflank Microsoft's now largely defunct Passport initiative and develop standards for federated online verification of identity. Backers of Higgins and Bandit plan to demonstrate an early version of an...