Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp. and five companies that make identity management software are teaming to support the Web Services (WS) architecture and WS-Federation standard for sharing user identities ...

In dynamic e-business environments, companies want to respond rapidly and effectively to events rather than be overtaken by them. Forward-looking companies design their distributed services on ...

The protocol, one of many in the WS-* stack of security protocols, lets companies share identities and security tokens. IBM and Microsoft developed WS-Federation in 2002 along with a number of other ...

Bill Gates and Microsoft kicked off the 2006 RSA conference in San Jose this year, and a key part of their message was identity federation using the WS-Federation standard. The WS-Federation Web ...