Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Provisioning and federation

The raging dispute about federated provisioning's pros and cons
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Provisioning and federation

Dave Kearns By Dave Kearns
Federated provisioning is the topic, and the raging dispute about its pros and cons is today's subject. It started with the comment by Daniel Wakeman (CIO, Educational Testing Service), who said "It's a 'huge shortcoming' that SaaS [Software-as-a-Service] vendors do not embrace 'federated identity management' standards allowing centralized identification and validation of users via a single sign-on process..." Read full story

Dave Kearns is a consultant and editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management.

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