In this age of phishing, hacking, identity fraud, and other forms of cybercrime, answering two simple questions — “Who are you?” and “How can you prove it?” — is fast becoming a critical requirement ...

Business is becoming increasingly virtual and decentralized, while real-time relationship management with employees, contractors, partners, suppliers and customers is becoming ever more crucial. Even ...

Commentary--Federated identity management and Web services are uniquely intertwined, mutually reliant on each other, and are poised to finally solve a long-running problem in both IT and systems ...

It’s one of those concepts that, to me at least, is obscured by it’s own name: federated identity. In a nutshell, the goal of said technology is to offer users the ability to authenticate themselves ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. What is it? A system that allows individuals to use the ...

Better, faster, more efficient online services... so why isn't it happening? Leading public sector IT bosses have told silicon.com they would welcome moves by the UK government to adopt federated ...

To better facilitate transactions involving multiple parties, the industry proposes machine-to-machine exchange of identity data. But can you automate trust? Walk up to an ATM anywhere in the world, ...

Until now, IBM has shunned membership in the group founded by Sun Microsystems Inc., working instead with Microsoft Corp., BEA Systems Inc., and others on specifications for a broader Web-services ...

Perhaps because it's just not natural! Federated Identity is certainly one of the hotter topics in e-business and security circles currently. It promises to improve cost, efficiency and convenience of ...