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IDaaS offers management of identity information as a digital entity that can be used for electronic transactions. It solves problems with remembering multiple credentials by allowing single sign-on access to multiple systems through a centralized authentication server. Federated identity management enables packaging of security credentials across domains using standards like SAML, while OpenID allows login to multiple sites with a single account.

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IDaaS offers management of identity information as a digital entity that can be used for electronic transactions. It solves problems with remembering multiple credentials by allowing single sign-on access to multiple systems through a centralized authentication server. Federated identity management enables packaging of security credentials across domains using standards like SAML, while OpenID allows login to multiple sites with a single account.

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Cloud Computing Identity as a Service (IDaaS)

Employees in a company require to login to system to perform various tasks. These systems may be
based on local server or cloud based. Following are the problems that an employee might face:

Remembering different username and password combinations for accessing multiple servers.
If an employee leaves the company, it is required to ensure that each account of that user is
disabled. This increases workload on IT staff.

To solve above problems, a new technique emerged which is known as Identity-as–a-Service (IDaaS).
IDaaS offers management of identity information as a digital entity. This identity can be used during
electronic transactions.

Identity

Identity refers to set of attributes associated with something to make it recognizable. All objects may have
same attributes, but their identities cannot be the same. A unique identity is assigned through unique
identification attribute.

There are several identity services that are deployed to validate services such as validating web sites,
transactions, transaction participants, client, etc. Identity-as-a-Service may include the following:
Directory services
Federated services
Registration
Authentication services
Risk and event monitoring
Single sign-on services
Identity and profile management

Single Sign-On (SSO)


To solve the problem of using different username and password combinations for different servers,
companies now employ Single Sign-On software, which allows the user to login only one time and
manage the access to other systems.

SSO has single authentication server, managing multiple accesses to other systems, as shown in the
following diagram:

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SSO Working

There are several implementations of SSO. Here, we discuss the common ones:

Following steps explain the working of Single Sign-On software:

User logs into the authentication server using a username and password.
The authentication server returns the user's ticket.

User sends the ticket to intranet server.


Intranet server sends the ticket to the authentication server.
Authentication server sends the user's security credentials for that server back to the intranet
server.
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If an employee leaves the company, then disabling the user account at the authentication server prohibits
the user's access to all the systems.

Federated Identity Management (FIDM)

FIDM describes the technologies and protocols that enable a user to package security credentials across
security domains. It uses Security Markup Language (SAML) to package a user's security credentials as
shown in the following diagram:

OpenID

It offers users to login into multiple websites with single account. Google, Yahoo!, Flickr, MySpace,
WordPress.com are some of the companies that support OpenID.

Benefits
Increased site conversation rates
Access to greater user profile content
Fewer problems with lost passwords
Ease of content integration into social networking sites

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