Federation
Tools, business arrangements, and legal structures which support sharing identity information across organizational boundaries; how cost reduction and increased efficiency can be realized by relying on third-party sources of identity and attribute information. Protocols for federated authentication. Protocols for exchange of identity attributes and entitlements across organizational boundaries in federations. SAML and WS-* token formats and protocols for implementing federation. Privacy issues in federations. Governance of federations and business structures supporting federation relationships. Federation hub and spoke support products; federation service providers. Provisioning of administrative account authority between federation members. Affinity of individual users to federation member organizations based on existing relationships. Issues of identity and attribute timelieness and accuracy in federations.
- Federation
- Security Assertion Markup Language
- SAML
- WS-Federation
- WS-Trust
- Security Token Service
- STS
- ADFS
- Ping Federate
- Tokens
- Claims
This topic relates to the Identity and Privacy coverage area - Identity Infrastructure Planning and building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, and supporting the digital identity lifecycle.
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