Online Identity Management And SAML

  V.G. Anisha Gnana Vincy,  J. Sunil

Identity and access management systems provide lots of tools and technologies for managing user access rights to critical information inside an organization. Identity management defines the roles and access rights for online users for accessing network resources. The main objective of Identity Management systems is to provide single identity for individual user. Once the online digital identity has been created, it must be preserved, modified and supervised throughout the access life cycle. In the digital Information world, an identity management system becomes a base to build up a secure network, because managing online user identity is a necessary criteria in the Digital world. Consequently, well-managed user identities provide better control of user access, which reduces internal and external security risks. Authorization messages between sender and receiver are often sent using Security Assertion Mark-up Language (SAML), which is the open standard , an XML framework that provides authentication and authorization services. This chapter covers an overview of the Identity Management Systems and the implementation of SAML open standard for communicating authentication and authorization details across different service providers.

Keywords- digital identity, identity management, SAML, Identity Provider, Service Provider.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1803083
Page Number(s) - 494-498
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 3 | September 2018
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  V.G. Anisha Gnana Vincy,  J. Sunil,   "Online Identity Management And SAML", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 3, pp.494-498, September 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1803083.pdf