Liberty Alliance Approved Identity Management Solutions

This article from PRnewswire provides an excellent overview of some of the solution providers that are Liberty Alliance approved. In addition to the link to the full article, see my "clippings" below.

Liberty Alliance Announces First Companies to Pass Full-Matrix SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing @ SYS-CON Media

• Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced that products from Hewlett-Packard, IBM, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, Sun Microsystems and Symlabs, Inc. have passed Liberty Alliance testing for SAML 2.0 interoperability.
• Hewlett Packard - HP Select Federation 7.0 patch1A - HP Select Federation 7.0 enables the comprehensive, cross-enterprise SSO and sharing of identity details through the concurrent support of all the major federation standards.
• IBM - Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, version 6.2 - IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) delivers a versatile federated single sign- on solution that conforms to SAML, WS-Federation and Liberty ID-FF federation protocol standards and offers a modular web access management and web-services identity trust management for use in an SOA environment.
• RSA, The Security Division of EMC - RSA Federated Identity Manager 4.0 - RSA Federated Identity Manager enables enterprises to share trusted user credentials securely and confidently. RSA Federated Identity Manager v4.0, the latest release, is designed to simplify administration and accelerate deployment timelines. RSA Federated Identity Manager v4.0 supports SAML 1.1 and 2.0, WS-FED v1.0 and ADFS v1.0. The solution includes out-of-the-box integrations with numerous authentication authorities including BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere and Microsoft IWA and .NET. Partner configuration management is aided by a configuration dashboard and automated metadata exchange.
• Sun Microsystems - Sun Java(TM) System Federated Access Manager 8.0 - Sun Java System Federated Access Manager 8.0 is the next release of Sun's access management and federation solution. Developed from the OpenSSO open source distribution (http://www.opensso.org/), Sun's Federated Access Manager will provide comprehensive access management, federation, and web services security as modular components within a single Java application. Customers will be able to choose what components to deploy, while maintaining a single license and product. This product will be a key component of Sun's identity management portfolio.
• Symlabs, Inc. - Symlabs Federated Identity Suite version 3.3.0 - Symlabs Federated Identity Suite is a complete set of components with the flexibility to create an ideal identity management solution for nearly any environment. It includes a federation server with identity provider, service provider, and identity web services capabilities, plus client connectors, templates, samples, and a powerful built-in scripting language to build, integrate and customize identity management solutions in record time. Symlabs Federated Identity Suite can be tailored for service provider, network operator, or enterprise network deployments to create circles of trust, enhance existing systems with single sign-on/log-off, or roll out new identity-based services that make it safe and easy to use personal and business information in networked applications.

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Federated Identity Management

Okay...if you say that data is going to be exchanged and more technology services will be outsourced to experts--How are you going to handle identity management? (You might say to me).

For data to be exchanged between organizations in a safe manner, there will have to be some form of authentication that works across "party lines". Somehow, it has got to get easier for outside vendors to gain access to data, servers, lab and staff computers so that these "experts" can provide their expertise.

Lately I've been reading about the Liberty Alliance Project. It turns out that this organization is seeking a "standards" based approach to these challenges.

tag: digital world, identity management, federated identity management, liberty alliance project