Overview#

Web Services Federation (WS-Federation) Web Services Federation is one of the Web Service Security Specifications and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security and is an Identity Federation specification, developed by a group of companies: BEA Systems, BMC Software, Computer Associates Inc. (along with Layer 7 Technologies now a part of Computer Associates Inc.), IBM, Microsoft, Novell INC, HPE Enterprise, and VeriSign.Part of the larger Web Services Security framework, WS-Federation defines mechanisms for allowing different security realms to broker information on identities, identity attributes and authentication.Generally, Web Services Federation has been replaced by SAMLWeb Services Federation is typically referred to when using the WS-Specifications

More Information#

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• WS-Federation

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• [#1] - WS-Federation - based on information obtained 2015-04-19