Federation gateway bridges identity standards

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08/29/05

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In this issue:

* A new technology called a federation gateway has emerged to
  provide protocol translation services between corporations that
  use different federated identity management protocols
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Today's focus:

Federation gateway bridges identity standards

By Atul Tulshibagwale

Federated identity management lets individuals use the same user
name, password or other authentication mechanism to perform a
single sign-on, and access applications and data hosted by more
than one organization. An employee portal that links a 401 (k)
custodian, mutual fund firm, payroll processing company and HMO
is a good example of a federated identity management deployment.

Partners in a federated identity management system depend on one
another to authenticate their respective users and vouch for
their identity and access privileges. Currently, companies must
choose between one of three evolving protocols - Security
Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Liberty Alliance and
WS-Federation - to federate user identities across corporate
boundaries. These protocols standardize communications between
applications so partners are not forced to adopt the same
technologies for directory services, security and
authentication. However, interoperability remains a roadblock,
because not only the three protocols but also different versions
of the same protocol are incompatible.

A new technology called a federation gateway has emerged to
provide protocol translation services between corporations that
use different federated identity management protocols.

How it works

Central to a federated identity system is the trust relationship
between a Web site/organization that authenticates users (known
as an identity provider) and the site that relies on this
authentication to provide secure access to a Web application or
service (known as a service provider). A federation gateway
eliminates the need for an identity provider site and a service
provider site to use the same federated identity management
protocol and version.

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Tulshibagwale is CEO and co-founder of Trustgenix. He can be
reached at at@trust genix.com.
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requirements, overcomes the limitations of other solutions, and
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