Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML is a product of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee. The single most important problem that SAML was created to solve is the Web browser single sign-on (SSO). However, there are limitations to SAML 1.1 for that purpose. In fact, the problem that SAML 1.1 solves more efficiently is the authentication and authorization of SOAP Web services by using SAML as a WS-Security token.
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About The Author
Frank Teti is a Senior Architect/Manager at TMNA Services. Previously, Mr. Teti was a Senior BPM Architect with Pegasystems and in the SOA practice at Oracle (formerly with BEA Systems). He can be reached at frank.teti at tmnas.com.
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