With the growth of mobile applications, companies are faced with the challenge of creating a secure mechanism to integrate these applications into their overall infrastructure. Things like the centralized management of secure authentication, single sign-on across applications, session management, creation … Read more →

CA SiteMinder supports SAML 2.0 federation both outbound to a Service Provider (SP) when acting as an Identity Provider (IdP) and inbound assertions from an IdP when acting as a SP. Similar to the way other authentication mechanism are handled, a … Read more →

Architecting and deploying SAML-based federation for companies using tools like PingFederate and CA SiteMinder is one of CoreBlox’ key services. Since I find myself using the same sites repeatedly during these deployments, I thought it would be useful to jot … Read more →

Let’s face it: explaining Identity & Access Management to a layperson isn’t easy. How often do those of us who work in the space respond to the simple question “so what do you do?” at a cocktail party or a … Read more →

Yesterday this blog declared that the focus is back on security. Was I overly optimistic? Based on the results of the latest Gartner study, maybe: Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. will announce Thursday that during the next 12 months, it expects … Read more →