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For Security & Risk Professionals

OpenID Connect Heralds The "Identity Singularity"

Prepare For Cloud Security Improvements, Along With A Tincture Of Disruption

October 26, 2011

By Eve Maler with Stephanie Balaouras, Andras Cser, Kelley Mak

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Security professionals responsible for diverse types of access management across cloud services, devices, and populations have to pull off a neat trick: control access requests that routinely cross domain boundaries. Federated identity techniques such as web single sign-on help to solve these problems but require "extreme interoperability." To secure a full set of such scenarios today, security architects must often design Rube Goldberg-type devices that translate between standards optimized for subsets of needs, such as B2B (business-to-business) or B2C (business-to-consumer). The new suite of OpenID Connect and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Web Token specifications brings another round of standards disruption but also promises a no-compromises approach to highly distributed identity and access management (IAM).
Tags: Identity & Access Management, IT Spending Forecasts, Security Architecture, Security Program Governance, Security, Risk and Compliance, Tech Sector Economics, Technology Adoption Data
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Security Pros Face An Increasingly Diverse Access Management Challenge
  • OpenID Connect Stuffs Many Identity Features Into A Single Simple Package
  • SAML Will Fade Away, But The Process Won't Be Painful

  • RECOMMENDATIONS

    Look To OpenID Connect When SAML Doesn't Do The Trick

  • WHAT IT MEANS

    Evolution Is Healthy For Federated IAM And Other Loosely Coupled Things
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