Federation Products 2008

Identity and Privacy Strategies
In-Depth Research Report
Federation Products 2008Version: 1.0, Jan 02, 2008
AUTHOR(S):Mike Neuenschwander(miken@burtongroup.com)
Additional Input:Gerry Gebel
TECHNOLOGY THREAD:
Identity Management
ConclusionFederation technology is an important tool for deploying cross-domain sign-on and accesssolutions. With more than a dozen products on the market today, information technology (IT)architects have no shortage of options. Because large organizations require a tiered model forfederation, few will be able to settle on a single federation server or hosted provider for all theirfederation needs. Most organizations will deploy a mix of general-purpose, application-specific,and open source technologies to round out federated identity.
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Synopsis..........................................................................................................................................................................5Analysis...........................................................................................................................................................................6Why You Can't Have Just One Federation Service....................................................................................................6How Federation Standards Reinforce the Need for Federation..................................................................................7Categorizing Federation Products...............................................................................................................................9Best General-Purpose Products: PingFederate and HP Select Federation............................................................10Best Community Hub: Covisint............................................................................................................................11Best Web Services Federation Support: IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager...............................................11Best WAM Extension: CA SiteMinder Federation Security Services..................................................................11Best SAML Support: RSA Federated Identity Manager............................. [download for more]