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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...