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ALSO CALLED: Security Assertion Markup Language, 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 specifies three components: assertions, protocol, and binding. There are three assertions: authentication, attribute, and authorization. Authenticationassertion  … 
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SAML White Papers (View All Report Types)
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Identity-Enabled Web Services: Standards-based Identity for Web 2.0 - Today
sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Web Services are emerging as the preeminent method for program-to-program communication across corporate networks as well as the Internet. Securing Web Services has been a challenge until recently. This White Paper discusses how Identity-Enabled Web Services works, and why it is important.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009


Secure Internet Single Sign-On (SSO) 101
sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Written for anyone interested in understanding how secure Internet SSO works, this white paper explores the limitations of current SSO implementations outside of a single security domain (including identity and access management systems and open source development) and introduces standalone secure Internet SSO as a solution.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

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SAML DEFINITION (continued): …  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) exchanges. SAML works with multipleprotocols including Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), File TransferProtocol (FTP) and also supports SOAP, BizTalk, and Electronic Business XML (ebXML). The Organization for the Advancement of StructuredInformation … 
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