Microsoft's federated identity platform passed its first SAML 2.0 interoperability test; the company previously shunned the protocol for WS-Federation Microsoft’s federated identity platform passed ...

Microsoft completed its first SAML interoperability test and the results are in: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 software received a passing grade. Microsoft’s federated identity platform ...

Digital identity is becoming increasingly important as enterprises strive to protect and control access to online resources. A series of maturing standards is helping make identity management and ...

Until this year, identity federation has suffered from the problem of too many standards. Companies that deployed federation before the fourth quarter were forced to deal with five incompatible ...

Microsoft will stick by the set of protocols it has picked for identity federation, a concept that includes single sign-on (SSO) for several different Web portals and secure transfers of data between ...

Sept. 30, 2009 " Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance today announced that identity products from Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens have passed Liberty Interoperable ...