The second step: Account federations with cloud services and identity providers run by customers In the first article we introduced the project requirements to get rid of an application identity silo environment and to introduce an identity hub infrastructure. The second part dealt with building a Single Sign On infrastructure leveraging WSO2 Identity Server and […]
The third step: Enabling easy community registration and sign-on. In the first article we introduced the project requirements to get rid of an application identity silo environment and to introduce an identity hub infrastructure. The second part dealt with building a Single Sign On infrastructure leveraging WSO2 Identity Server and OpenID Connect Apache agents. The […]
In this article we compare the SAML service provider implementation of three popular cloud services: Google Apps (which includes GMail, Google Drive and Docs, Calendar) Salesforce SAP Hana Cloud Our testing procedure includes verification of the service provider compliance to the SAML 2.0 specification and checking the handling of signature validations. Abstract: Secure Assertion Markup […]
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 […]
