Archive for 2012

User attributes in the SAML assertion

English on November 30th, 2012 No Comments

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 […]

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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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