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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and access management are at the heart of Microsoft's software as service products, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is crucial to master Microsoft Azure in order to be able to work with the Microsoft Cloud effectively. You’ll begin by identifying the benefits of Microsoft Azure in the field of identity and access management. Working through the functionality of identity and access management as a service, you will get a full overview of the Microsoft strategy. Understanding identity synchronization will help you to provide a well-managed identity. Project scenarios and examples will enable you to understand, troubleshoot, and develop on essential authentication protocols and publishing scenarios. Finally, you will acquire a thorough understanding of Microsoft Information protection technologies.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
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...