Federated Identity Primer

by Derrick Rountree

Identity authentication and authorization are integral tasks in today's digital world. As businesses become more technologically integrated and consumers use more web services, the questions of identity security and accessibility are becoming more prevalent. Federated identity links user credentials across multiple systems and services, altering both the utility and security landscape of both. In "Federated Identity Primer," Derrick Rountree

Explains the concepts of digital identity

Describes the technology behind and implementation of federated identity systems

Helps you decide if federated identity is good for your system or web service
Learn about Internet authentication

Learn about federated authentication

Learn about ADFS 2.0

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Parinya Jutasen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rey good book

Very good practical and clearer picture on ACS and ADFS.
I have been through from cover to cover and it is good

[Russ Sanderlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not sure what to think about this book. It starts out annoyingly simplistic then exponentially picks up the learning curve through the protocols and tokens section and finishes out with a walk through of Microsoft ADFS. If there is anything to take away from this is a good understanding of authentication, authorization and federation.

All IT professionals need to be familiar with these technologies that are finally being leveraged due to the out of control nature of cloud based technologies serving the needs of the organization. Reading this book is helpful but you could probably get more out of reading about OAuth, SAML and OpenID on your own.

[Pavel · Rating 3 out of 5]

As the preface says it is "a general introduction to federated identity", but it would have been much more useful if the "Federated Identity Technologies" chapter was expanded so that each of them was covered a bit more deeper like OAuth flows in OAuth section and so on.

[Alex Ott · Rating 3 out of 5]

high-level overview of technologies & protocols related to federated identity management.

[Konul Aliyeva · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful book for those who want to understand what federated identity is, which technologies it has.