Many businesses use Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions. Although these solutions offer a unified login experience they lack the flexibility to store a variety of sensitive information beyond a simple ...

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 ...

The importance of standards is well established. Making sure systems and components from different manufacturers work together is essential. In the identity world there are long-established standards ...

Fort Wayne, IN (PRWEB) January 7, 2009 -- TrustBearer Labs, an authentication and digital identity solutions company, announced today that the TrustBearer Desktop PIV API meets the Federal Information ...

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 ...

A thorny problem for many organisations running a website is the registration process for new users. The marketing department wants to capture as much information about each new user as possible, but ...

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 ...