In December Google announced the availability of SAML SSO and other APIs within the free edition of Google Apps. SAML was already introduced for the premium/business and educational versions back in 2007. But now you can benefit from this feature to make access to all versions of Google Apps more secure. This article has two [...]
It is already a year ago when we published the article “Service-now.com: On Demand IT Service Management supports SAML 2.0″ which ended with the sentence “Looking forward for more to come …” One year after we have set up an online demo showcasing SAML single sign on between SSOCircle and ServiceNow. With Google Apps offering [...]
SSOCircle Toolbox Series Part 1 Understanding the “iPlanetDirectoryPro” session cookie can be key to debugging problems like OpenSSO / OpenAM internal session rooting, persistence problems and misconfiguration. The SSOCircle Toolbox OpenSSO / OpenAM session decoder: http://idp.ssocircle.com/sso/toolbox/ossoDProDecode.jsp The iPlanetDirectoryPro Cookie is used by OpenSSO and OpenAM to reference a specific user session. It consists of an [...]
SSOCircle Toolbox Series Part 2 OpenSSO and OpenAM store passwords (for example J2EE Policy Agents) encrypted in configuration files. If you need to encrypt a password without having access to the bundled encryption tools, use the SSOCircle Toolbox OpenSSO / OpenAM Password Encryption web tool. And if you can’t remember what the password was and [...]
The cloud conference in the clouds or at least close to the clouds took place from 18.-21. July 2011 in Keystone, Rocky Mountains, at an altitude of 2.830m. The conference was organized by Ping Identity, headed by Andre Durand who put a lot of passion into the conference and into the fostering of the “identity [...]
This year’s European Identity Conference (EIC2011), a fixed star in the digital identity world took place in Munich, Germany, from 10.-12. May and a supplemental workshop day on the 13th. As last year the conference also hosted the Cloud 2011. In terms of venue the conference made a leap into the future from the venerable [...]
ITIL v3 + Web 2.0 + SaaS = Service-now.com, a pioneer of On Demand IT Service Management combines ITIL v3 guidelines with Web 2.0 technology to a Software as a Service offering. As we have seen in many cases customers of SaaS providers are increasingly asking for identity and access management features for convenience and security. To [...]
The board game portal www.spellenmug.nl offers several options for single sign on. Most of them are OpenID based. Only one leverages SAML v2: the only free, open and public SAML V2 Identity Provider SSOCircle. SSOCircle IDP has now more than 250 integrated SAML v2 service providers in its SSOCircle of trust. Although many of them [...]
Burton Group, acquired by Gartner, Inc., recently published their IdM Market Profile report: “Identity Management 2010″. A very interesting report that not only described the current market but outlines the changes and the future trends IdM is or will be going through. As there is still unclaritiy on what we generally understand by “IdM Market”, [...]
Ferry Meewisse, a dutch bag designer, who runs the web site frrry.com, bags & fashion accessories, is using SSOCircle as a login option for partners and employees. Beside Google, Yahoo!, MySpace.com, myOpenID and generic OpenID, they have the option to log in via SSOCircle and leverage several strong authentication options like X.509 certificates, USB tokens [...]
