SSO uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol, which is an Extensible Markup Language standard that allows a user to log in once for affiliated but separate websites, David notes.

Microsoft completed its first SAML interoperability test and the results are in: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 software received a passing grade.

Microsoft next month for the first time will participate in SAML 2.0 interoperability testing using its Geneva platform to test against other vendors' implementations of the open standard identity ...

The Golden SAML attack is a variation of this attack, but for services that use the SAML 2.0 protocol, an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties.

Instead of targeting the Windows Server Kerberos, a Golden SAML attack leverages the Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML) protocol. SAML is an open standard for exchanging authentication ...

Google has supported SSO via the widely available SAML protocol for more than a decade, however allowing multiple SAML 2.0-based identity providers should increase the tech giant’s appeal to ...

Widely used single sign on implementations could potentially be mis-configured, enabling attackers to easily take over a victim's account.

Microsoft's federated identity platform passed its first SAML 2.0 interoperability test; the company previously shunned the protocol for WS-Federation ...

Vasilis Koulolias, the dissemination leader for the group – Secure Identity Across Borders Linked (STORK) – said the SAML 2 will be the core protocol for its common identity framework. The framework ...