Parleys.com: SAML

SAML has emerged as the gold standard for building Cross-Domain SSO solutions and is a key technology in the domain of federated identity management. SAML is being adopted at a fast pace by a growing number of enterprises today, no doubt because of the vast industry support for this relatively new technology, which is no less then impressive. During this talk the basic concepts of SAML will be explained. An executive overview as well as a technical synopsis will be presented. What are SAML assertions, attributes, artifacts, bindings and profiles ? What problems does SAML solve, how does it all work out in real life, what is the SAML producer consumer model etc... But also questions like what is the Liberty Alliance and what is OpenSAML will be answered. Finally we'll have a glimpse at what the future will bring.