Liberty Alliance announced that Google, NTT and the US GSA are deploying SAML 2.0
January 2008 by Marc Jacob
Liberty Alliance announced that Google, NTT and the US GSA are deploying SAML 2.0 to manage digital identity management solutions. This news follows the recent decision by the US GSA to require vendors to pass Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 testing as a prerequisite for participating in the E-Authentication Federation Solution and a recent report by Gartner stating that "SAML 2.0 has become the de facto federation standard across industries" and “Governments and enterprises planning new identity federations should base their implementations on the SAML 2.0 standards.”
The applications announced join deployments across vertical markets and regions where users and organizations demand the highest levels of security and privacy protection and where open standards and proven interoperability are critical to managing wide scale digital identity management solutions. The entire press release follows. Google, NTT, the US GSA and Liberty Alliance have made spokespersons available for comment on today’s news. Please let me know if I can put you in touch with someone. Thanks for keeping an eye on Liberty Alliance. — Russ
Highlights of SAML 2.0 deployments in the global eGovernment sector:
http://projectliberty.org/liberty/adoption/egovernment/egov_world_map
Highlights of SAML 2.0 deployments in vertical markets: