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 has been adding to its Azure Active Directory capabilities in recent weeks. New capabilities at the preview stage were announced. Microsoft also rolled out an ability to detect Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 PR contacted Microsoft Subnet today to clarify some questions we raised in a post earlier this month, “Microsoft “Geneva” could be genius but skeptics abound.” On May 11, Microsoft announced ...

Microsoft will stick by the set of protocols it has picked for identity federation, a concept that includes single sign-on (SSO) for several different Web portals and secure transfers of data between ...

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML is a product of the OASIS Security Services ...

SAML authentication certificates, generated with tools other than dedicated cloud identity solutions, can be forged by hackers, according to a new proof of concept. There is now a way to forge ...