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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132304
Pages 698 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jochen Nickel Jochen Nickel
Profile icon Jochen Nickel

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Building and Managing Azure Active Directory 2. Understanding Identity Synchronization 3. Exploring Advanced Synchronization Concepts 4. Monitoring Your Identity Bridge 5. Configuring and Managing Identity Protection 6. Managing Authentication Protocols 7. Deploying Solutions on Azure AD and ADFS 8. Using the Azure AD App Proxy and the Web Application Proxy 9. Deploying Additional Applications on Azure AD 10. Exploring Azure AD Identity Services 11. Creating Identity Life Cycle Management in Azure 12. Creating a Security Culture 13. Identifying and Detecting Sensitive Data 14. Understanding Encryption Key Management Strategies 15. Configuring Azure Information Protection Solutions 16. Azure Information Protection Development 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0


SAML is the foundation for much of the current identity federation activity. SAML 2.0 is preceded by SAML 1.0 and 1.1. SAML 1.1 was released in 2003 and had just two scenarios (also known as profiles), and both were IdP-initiated. Shibboleth 1.3 and Liberty Alliance—WS-FF 1.2 extended SAML 1.1, and SAML 2.0 was released by OASIS in 2005.

The following table shows the SAML core principles:

Assertions

Protocols

Bindings

Package of identityinformation

Request/response based

Associates a message (protocol) with transport (communication mechanism)

Synonym token

Defines the messaging requirements

Examples:

  • HTTP Redirect
  • HTTP POST
  • HTTP Artifact
  • SOAP

XML-based

Examples:

  • Authentication request
  • Single logout
  • Artifact resolution

 

In the next section, we will talk about the key facts of the SAML 2.0 protocol.

Key facts about SAML

The SAML standard provides accurate messages for the transfer of requests and assertions (claims). SAML offers several options for the transfer of information...

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