Federated Identity
As modern businesses need to build closer relationship with partners, suppliers, customers, and even between departments, and as businesses build more and more IT systems, the need to access web-based applications deployed in different domains are increasingly common. However, end users as well as system administrators do not like to be burdened with multiple sets of accounts and passwords.
That gave birth to the concept of federated identity.
Federated Identity is a concept that enables enterprises to securely link user identity across partners, suppliers, and customers organizations. Liberty federation framework is a framework that defines the identity federation protocol and profiles. It is an open standard that helps to eliminate security loopholes and rigidity in proprietary architectures.
Before federation deployment, users had to be authenticated independently by systems deployed in different security domains. Users had to provide their username and password to access every system.
After deploying Liberty federation, multiple systems build trust relationship among themselves by linking user's accounts in multiple domains together to form a federated network. Hence, users can now access resources distributed in different domains through web single sign-on.
Identity federation helps to eliminate redundant logins, giving users convenient access to resources through federated single sign-on.
IDSignet's customers in different industries have already deployed identity federation framework to solidify relationships with partners, improve customer relations, accelerate execution of business alliances and partnerships, cut cost and complexity of services management, while protecting existing IT investment.
Benefits of Federated Identity
Federated Identity provides benefits to organizations, administrators and end users.
Simplified Identity Management
- Simplify system integration and management;
- Reduce the number of accounts and passwords to management;
- Uniform planning and implementation of enterprise-wide security model;only need to implement in one location;
- Use open standards to avoid complexity in proprietary systems;
- Expedite execution of business alliances;
- Simplify integration after acquisition or merger;
Improved Overall Security
- Use open security protocol to increase overall security level;
- Reduce identity and password theft;
- Extend better security model to entire network, hence, improving overall security level;
Improved User Experience
- Avoid account and password overload;
- Access to multiple systems with one login;
- Provide more efficient and more friendly services;
- Increase users and customers satisfaction;
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