WS-Federation (Web Services Federation) is an Identity Federation specification, developed by a group of companies: BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA Inc. (along with Layer 7 Technologies now a part of CA Inc.), IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett Packard 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.[1] WS-Federation focuses on federated identity and trusting authentication tokens across different realms, privileged password management is concerned with the security, control, and audit of high-risk account passwords within an IT environment.[2]

Associated specifications

The following draft specifications are associated with WS-Security:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Broeckelmann, Robert (2018-02-27). "Understanding WS-Federation — Passive Requestor Profile". Medium. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  2. ↑ "Privileged Password Management - the comprehensive guide". www.oneidentity.com. Retrieved 2023-09-19.


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