RSA ClearTrust® Federated Identity Management Module offers organizations new opportunities to streamline business processes, enhance user productivity and improve security
RSA® CONFERENCE 2004, SAN FRANCISCO, CA.— RSA Security Inc. (NASDAQ: RSAS) today announced its participation in the OASIS SAML (Security Assertions Markup Language) 1.1 Interoperability Lab at the RSA® Conference 2004. The SAML 1.1 OASIS Standard, an XML framework for exchanging authentication, attribute and authorization information, is a basis for federated identity and security environments and is designed to enable secure single sign-on to applications within organizations, as well as across companies. The interoperability event features an 11-company demonstration of the SAML-based architecture being deployed with the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) E-Authentication initiative at booth # 235.
The OASIS SAML Interoperability Lab is sponsored by the GSA. It illustrates interoperability across three separate scenarios, which simulate interaction between a government or enterprise portal and sites from typical content or service providers. The GSA E-Authentication Initiative is committed to delivering open standards-based authentication solutions to U.S. government agencies.
The demonstration will feature the RSA ClearTrust® Federated Identity Management Module, which provides SAML functionality for generating and consuming standards-based SAML assertions. Through the support of the SAML 1.1 specification, single sign-on functionality is extended across other applications and platforms that support SAML, further enhancing the user experience and productivity opportunities afforded by this technology. This solution allows organizations to federate identities with partners to drive new relationships and business models. The Federated Identity Management Module can be deployed quickly and offers powerful, time-saving administrative features for creating and managing e-business relationships across business boundaries among SAML Asserting and Relying Parties. RSA Security’s identity federation solution can be integrated with third-party access management products, including those that do not offer support for SAML 1.1, to enable enterprises to take advantage of the important features in the current version of the SAML OASIS Standard.
“The SAML 1.1 specification reflects strong work in establishing a standard basis for federated identity,” said Karl Best, vice president of OASIS. “We’re pleased that RSA Security is hosting this event and actively participating in the interoperability lab. A public event of this caliber helps end-user organizations to see the cost and productivity benefits achieved by utilizing products that interoperate by supporting these standards.”
RSA Security has long been a leader in the federated identity market. RSA Security is an original founder of the Liberty Alliance, has a representative co-chairing the SAML work on the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee, and has led the development of many standards specifications. RSA Security has also donated intellectual property for SAML and Liberty Alliance implementations. Customers have deployed the RSA ClearTrust Federated Identity Management Module and are interoperating with business partners today. Enterprises are now able to freely interoperate with their business partners and other enterprises using a standards-based approach to user identity and access management offering them investment protection for their future needs.
“RSA Security strongly believes in supporting standards efforts, like SAML, that allow our customers to authenticate and exchange user identities across web applications and services, providing users the benefits of single sign-on,” said Joe Uniejewski, CTO and senior vice president of corporate development at RSA Security. “RSA Security has participated in the development of this specification since inception, contributing intellectual property and technical expertise. This public interoperability event further demonstrates the benefits, productivity advantages and use of federated identities.”
About RSA ClearTrust web access management software
RSA ClearTrust software facilitates secure e-business by protecting access to mission-critical web-based applications and resources. It is designed to enable enterprises to manage and enforce a centralized authentication policy while enhancing the end-user experience through its web Single Sign-on functionality, which allows users to seamlessly navigate across multiple applications and domains. The identity management capabilities inherent in the RSA ClearTrust software establish trust in identity and enforce business policy that helps organizations improve relationships, generate revenue and reduce costs.
