Web Services are arguably the most heterogenous distributed technology ever. A typical Web services setup will make use of many different technologies, object models and programming languages, which ...

Oh, how quickly times change. A few months ago Microsoft was being taken to task by the Justice department over Passport, and outside of the Microsoft stable of sites, their single sign-on (SSO) ...

Inside the firewall, many companies have deployed single sign-on systems to cut down on the hassle of end users having to remember and care for multiple user names and passwords. With SSO, an employee ...

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML is a product of the OASIS Security Services ...

More than a year after they buried the hatchet and announced a collaboration agreement, Microsoft and Sun spoke at an event Friday about their work together, including steps toward addressing what Sun ...

Protecting business data without onerous authentication processes for employees is a challenge that most businesses will face. Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions alleviate this by managing access to ...