While most of the world on Tuesday will be focused on Windows 7, Microsoft will be making this cloud-security splash by unveiling an open identity platform. The platform, code-named Geneva, is ...

Deep dive into SAML architecture for CTOs and Engineering VPs. Learn why SAML 2.0 is the enterprise standard for SSO and how to handle complex XML assertions.

In many enterprises, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is the glue that holds legacy single sign-on together. It has ...

Comparing SAML and OIDC for enterprise SSO. Learn which protocol works best for web, mobile, and CIAM solutions in this deep dive for CTOs.

The future of authentication will not rely on SAML, but with OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 instead, Dave Kearns contends in a blog post for KuppingerCole. SAML, or Security Assertion Markup Language, is ...

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML): You may have heard of it. You've likely used it at least once today to log into a website portal or enterprise application ...

As you may already know, Single sign-on (SSO) is the facility by which a user can gain access to multiple sites using just a single log in. The simplest mechanism to enable SSO is through cookies but ...

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 ...

There were some interesting moves in the user-centric identity space last week, which may (or may not) foretell some changes coming in the next year. Ping Identity is a name that also surfaces here ...

If you’re a security and risk professional in charge of protecting consumer-facing applications, you may have heard that OpenID is a “toy,” or it’s an insecure protocol, or other critiques. And then ...