Learn how to integrate Single Sign-On (SSO) into your applications with this comprehensive developer guide. Includes code examples, flow diagrams, and best practices for secure authentication.

The future of authentication will not rely on SAML, but with OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 instead, Dave Kearns contends in a blog post for KuppingerCole. SAML, or Security Assertion Markup Language, is ...

With today’s announcement from Facebook of its plans to take its Facebook Connect program into the mobile sphere with Single Sign-on, it started to raise some questions from across various points. On ...

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 ...

Authentication protocols serve as the backbone of online security, enabling users to confirm their identities securely and access protected information and services. They define how claimants (users ...

A security researcher has uncovered serious security vulnerabilities in the technologies used by many websites to authenticate users via third-party websites. A blog posted late last week revealed the ...

While most of the world on Tuesday will be focused on Windows 7, Microsoft will be making this cloud-security splash by unveiling an open identity platform. The platform, code-named Geneva, is ...

A serious vulnerability in both the OAuth and OpenID protocols could lead to complications for those who use the services to login to websites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Microsoft, PayPal ...

If you’re a security and risk professional in charge of protecting consumer-facing applications, you may have heard that OpenID is a “toy,” or it’s an insecure protocol, or other critiques. And then ...