Federated identity management is a relatively new concept that is an extension of identity management, which is a centralized, automated approach to regulating access to enterprise resources by ...

How to build a solid business case for deployment. Smedinghoff is a partner at Wildman Harrold, where his practice focuses on the new legal issues relating to the developing field of information law ...

The 1990s witnessed the adoption of IT systems designed to streamline business processes through electronic automation. The introduction of these systems has challenged companies with how to integrate ...

“We are at the beginning of a very big thing,” says Mike Beach, associate technical fellow at The Boeing Co. “We are on the edge of a huge uptake of this idea of federated identity over the Internet, ...

Currently, the identity and access management (IAM) landscape at HBS is complicated with manual processes, custom solutions, and isolated systems. Users are burdened with maintaining multiple sets of ...

Until now, IBM has shunned membership in the group founded by Sun Microsystems Inc., working instead with Microsoft Corp., BEA Systems Inc., and others on specifications for a broader Web-services ...

Hewlett-Packard's decision this week to acquire Trustgenix, one of the few remaining independent suppliers of federated identity-management software, will give it and its partners a key tool for cross ...

At its TechEd conference, Microsoft is pushing Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) as the foundation for identity in cloud computing environments. At its TechEd conference this week, Microsoft ...

Security vendors Entrust and Trustgenix on Wednesday announced an alliance designed to strengthen the security of federated identity management relationships. The companies made the announcement at ...

Identities, and the information associated with them, determine the business relationships between companies and their customers, partners, suppliers, employees and contractors. This set of personal ...

Federated identity management garnered significant attention last week, as vendors improved wares and announced forthcoming initiatives. Hewlett-Packard unveiled privacy management improvements to its ...