Microsoft is paving the way for the use of alternative identity federation approaches with Office 365 apps and Microsoft Office apps. Those alternative approaches are being facilitated by the addition ...

Digital identity is becoming increasingly important as enterprises strive to protect and control access to online resources. A series of maturing standards is helping make identity management and ...

What is SAML and what is it used for? The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows security credentials to be shared by multiple computers across a network. It ...

WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trustworthy Internet for businesses, governments and people, today announced that the next ...

Microsoft completed its first SAML interoperability test and the results are in: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 software received a passing grade. Microsoft’s federated identity platform ...

Microsoft in January patched a severe Office 365 vulnerability that exposed accounts whose domains were configured as federated. A severe vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office 365 handles ...

In many enterprises, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is the glue that holds legacy single sign-on together. It has ...

A new technique called "Golden SAML" lets attackers forge authentication requests and access the cloud-based apps of companies that use SAML-compatible domain controllers (DCs) for the authentication ...