It is nothing really new, but it was a missing feature in the administration GUI of our Public IDP: Configuring which user profile attributes should be sent as an AttributeStatement in a SAML assertion. The feature has always been there, but administrators had to open a service request to have attributes configured. Now, you can [...]
SSOCircle Toolbox Part 3: Continuing our series on field tools that help troubleshooting SAML federation problems, we are now adding online decoder and encoder to translate SAML messages into readable text. In many cases you need to see what is in the SAML messages even if you have no access to the servers log files. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of project PicketLink Marcel Kolsteren, Seam Integration Lead, developed a module that allows developers to easily connect their seam application to external identity providers. The module supports SAML and OpenID. It also ships with an out-of-the box integration with SSOCircle. You will find a preconfigured saml-entities.xml file which includes the meta data for [...]
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