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Published inFeb 2019
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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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WS-Federation


WS-Federation was developed by an industry consortium and was released in December 2006, with Microsoft being a key contributor. WS-Federation is also part of a larger framework, WS-Security, and builds on the work of WS-Trust from February 2005, defining the following two key principles:

  • The protocol for requesting/receiving security tokens
  • How trust should be brokered between parties using an Security Token Service (STS)

It also defines two profiles:

  • Active Requestor Profile
  • Passive Requestor Profile

WS-* Federation Suite consists of:

  • WS-Trust
  • WS-Federation
  • WS-Policy

In the next section, we will describe the key elements of the WS-Federation specification.

Key facts about WS-Federation

In WS-Federation, in contrast to SAML, the token can be anything. Basically no defined messages are used. On the other hand, a suggestion is made for the use of a web service. The WS-Federation standard uses SOAP and makes the tunneling of SOAP available via the Web browser. The token for this standard...

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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition
Published in: Feb 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789132304

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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
Read more about Jochen Nickel