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 ...

Enterprise authentication strategies are moving away from reliance on traditional VPNs and passwords toward multi-protocol approaches that combine SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and MFA. Studies show ...

Choosing between SAML, OIDC, and OAuth 2.0? Explore 12 critical differences to help your B2B engineering team select the right authentication protocol today.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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's federated identity platform passed its first SAML 2.0 interoperability test; the company previously shunned the protocol for WS-Federation Microsoft’s federated identity platform passed ...