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 ...

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 ...

In today’s world where data breaches and identity theft flood the headlines, consumers remain hesitant to share and ultimately trust their personal information with online services. Further ...

Federated identity management lets individuals use the same user name, password or other authentication mechanism to perform a single sign-on, and access applications and data hosted by more than one ...

In last week's article, we discussed federated identity management (FIM) to get you familiar with some of the concepts of how it worked. We also stressed the need for Linux practitioners to start ...

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, ...

Protecting digital, online identities is quickly becoming a primary focus for governments the world over. To assist in safeguarding the future of online identities, ABI Research posits that the ...