Commentary--Federated identity management and Web services are uniquely intertwined, mutually reliant on each other, and are poised to finally solve a long-running problem in both IT and systems ...

Federated identity management is a relatively new concept that is an extension of identity management, which is a centralized, automated approach to regulating access to enterprise resources by ...

Currently, the identity and access management (IAM) landscape at HBS is complicated with manual processes, custom solutions, and isolated systems. Users are burdened with maintaining multiple sets of ...

Identity management is a term that refers broadly to the administration of individual identities within a system, such as a company, a network or even a country. In enterprise IT, identity management ...

Federated identity management lets individuals use the same user name, password or other authentication mechanism to perform a single sign-on, and access applications and data hosted by more than one ...

The 1990s witnessed the adoption of IT systems designed to streamline business processes through electronic automation. The introduction of these systems has challenged companies with how to integrate ...

As identity and access management and single sign-on become more prevalent across government, IT pros should catch up on the differences between different security protocols. In April 2018, the Office ...

At last week's Catalyst conference in San Diego, I had a chance to sit down with identity management executives from IBM and CA to discuss the state of federated identity management. It appears while ...

When it comes to setting up federated identity management, the security benefits (and potential drawbacks) are not what you might expect Aramark, the $11 billion food-service company, would seem an ...

In last week's article, we discussed federated identity management (FIM) to get you familiar with some of the concepts of how it worked. We also stressed the need for Linux practitioners to start ...

In this age of phishing, hacking, identity fraud, and other forms of cybercrime, answering two simple questions — “Who are you?” and “How can you prove it?” — is fast becoming a critical requirement ...