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Federated Identity
Ovum, Sep 2010, Pages: 20
Introduction
For systems users who struggle to maintain a growing number of online identities, the availability of effective federated identity management cannot come soon enough. The headlines suggest that federation services support business efficiency, can deliver inter-company collaboration, and provide cost and efficiency savings by supplying the tools required to build connectivity between organizations.
Features and benefits
- FIM technology can be used to create local, as well as global, interoperability between online businesses and trading partners.
- SSO allows users to move between business systems of their own organization and beyond corporate boundaries to access third-party systems.
Highlights
- The advantages that federation provides add process, operability, and control to the interactions between organizations and their users. Setup and usage needs to be based on business requirements, regulatory controls, and technology-driven agreements that allow companies to interoperate based on shared identity management.
Your key questions answered
- There are a number of good examples of successful FIM deployments, especially in the financial services, healthcare, and government sectors.
- What still needs to be addressed, if federation take-up rates are to improve, are cost justification issues and project complexity objections.
- The success of any federation project relies on two things: a bond of trust between the parties involved, and technology controls to maintain trust.
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