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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...