Identity Connects™ Document Federation Solutions

Identity Federation solutions allow organisations to securely share identity information across security boundaries. This is becoming more and more essential to organisations as business becomes increasingly virtual and decentralised and as real-time management of relationships with employees, contractors, partners, suppliers, and customers becomes ever more crucial.

Identity Connects™ recognises organisational demand for a secure, standards-based mechanism for enabling Single Sign-On and the exchange of user attributes across security domains. We are able to, for the first time, connect different applications via standards and with true interoperability and robust functionality.

The Document Federation solutions we offer include:

Ping Trust

PingTrust is a Security Token Server that extends identity management systems to Web services. With PingTrust, Web services can access digital identities to provide enhanced services while simultaneously ensuring appropriate information access and regulatory accountability.

PingTrust:

• Manages the validation and exchange of digital identities between both browser-based and browser-less applications and the Web services with which they connect.
• Includes libraries for integration with both Java and .NET Web Service Clients and Providers.
• Supports a variety of security token formats including SAML, X.509, username and Kerberos.
• Features a secure, Web-based administration console designed to simplify initial setup, certificate management and configuration of complex use cases.
• Is a high performance server with support for advanced clustering and failover configurations.

CA eTrust® TransactionMinder®

This solution addresses Web services security with an innovative, standards-based solution which allows organisations worldwide to actively deploy Web services, both in intranet and extranet environments. Web services offer many advantages over current alternatives although they still present key challenges, especially in terms of security, which need addressing.

TransactionMinder® provides:

• Secure access to Web services by inspecting the security information contained in the XML documents submitted by Web service consumers.
• Utilises centralised security policies bound to user identities for authentication, authorisation, federation, session management and audit.
• Delegated Administration.
• Secure Single Sign-On.
• Synchronised Session Management.
• Federated Identity.