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Impressions from European Identity Conference 2012

English on April 25th, 2012 No Comments

This year’s European Identity & Cloud Conference took place from 17.-20. April with the last day being a workshop day to deepen some of the topics. The event is one of the most important IAM meetings in the world and continues to increase its impact. Almost 600 visitors from allover the world and 40 exhibitors […]

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SAML Request Online Decoder / Encoder

English, Toolbox on March 31st, 2012 No Comments

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. […]

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Securing Google Apps/Gmail – Part I

English on January 22nd, 2012 No Comments

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 […]

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ServiceNow SAML SSO Online Demo

English on November 27th, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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OpenSSO / OpenAM Session Cookie Decoder

English, OpenAM, OpenSSO, Toolbox on September 18th, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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OpenSSO / OpenAM Password Encryption/Decryption

English, OpenAM, OpenSSO, Toolbox on September 18th, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Cloud Identity Summit 2011

English on August 21st, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Impressions from European Identity Conference 2011

English on May 15th, 2011 No Comments

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 […]

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Service-now.com: On Demand IT Service Management supports SAML 2.0

English on November 29th, 2010 No Comments

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 […]

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Single Sign On to the Game Portal Spellenmug

English on September 30th, 2010 No Comments

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 […]

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