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ALSO CALLED: Security Assertion Markup Language and Security Access Markup Language DEFINITION: SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard that allows a user to log on once for affiliated but separate Web sites. SAML is designed for business-to-business(B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. SAML … Definition continues below.

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Identity Management: What You Need to Know sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 18 Mar 2008 \| Published: 15 Dec 2007 SUMMARY: To give companies new to secure Internet single sign-on (SSO) a better picture of their differences, Ping Identity conducted a study of federation implementations it has been involved with. TOPICS: Identity Management \| Identity Management Software \| Open Source \| SAML \| SSO \| Web Application Security

Web Services Security: What's Required to Secure a Service-Oriented Architecture sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 02 Aug 2007 \| Published: 01 Jan 2008 SUMMARY: This white paper details a holistic approach for SOA security using additional, application-level industry standards to secure web services and multi-step transactions in a SOA environment. TOPICS: Application Deployment \| OASIS \| SAML \| SOA \| SSL \| Web Services

SAML DEFINITION (continued): … specifies three components: assertions, protocol, and binding. There are three assertions: authentication, attribute, and authorization. Authenticationassertion validates the user's identity. Attribute assertion contains specific information about the user. And authorization assertion identifies what the user is authorized to do.

Protocol defines how SAML asks for and receives assertions. Bindingdefines how SAML message exchanges are mapped to Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) …
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