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 ...

A comprehensive developer guide to implementing secure authentication in modern applications. Covers OAuth 2.0, OIDC, ...

Deep dive into SAML architecture for CTOs and Engineering VPs. Learn why SAML 2.0 is the enterprise standard for SSO and how to handle complex XML assertions.

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 ...

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 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 in January patched a severe Office 365 vulnerability that exposed accounts whose domains were configured as federated. A severe vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office 365 handles ...

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 ...