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Eugenio Pace on Identity Federation, WIF and ADFS 2.0

Topics
.NET,
Identity Management,
Programming,
Security,
Cloud Computing,
Active Directory Federation Services,
Windows Identity Foundation

Microsoft has entered the cloud and customers are looking into moving their applications to this new platform. In doing so authentication and identity management needs to be addressed. InfoQ Editor Jon Arild Tørresdal talked to Eugenio Pace, Senior Program Manager in the Patterns & Practices team about the recent federation and identity technologies released from Microsoft.

Windows Domain to Amazon EC2 Single Sign-On Access Solutions

Topics
EC2,
Amazon Web Services,
Amazon,
Single Sign-On,
.NET,
Operations,
Identity Management,
IaaS,
Companies,
Windows,
Architecture,
Programming,
Active Directory Federation Services,
Operating Systems,
Windows Identity Foundation,
Active Directory,
Security,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing

David Chappell, the Principal of Chappell & Associates, US, has written a whitepaper proposing several solutions for Single Sign-on (SSO) access to applications deployed on Amazon EC2 from a Windows domain. InfoQ explored these solutions to understand what the benefits and tradeoffs each one presented.