RSA Federated Identity Manager

Introduction: RSA Federated Identity Manager

Maximizing Competitive Advantage through Collaboration

In the networked economy, strategic partnerships and close collaboration are an important way to maintain a competitive edge. Organizations need to reduce product development and marketing costs, increase sales and seize new business opportunities. However, to capitalize on new market opportunities and reach new target audiences, companies must enable rapid and secure business interactions between a variety of internal and external stakeholders, and trust the electronic identities that are requesting access to critical web resources from within or from outside the organization’s boundaries. Striking a balance between ensuring secure transactions and ease of the end-user online experience is critical.

A federated identity is a single user identity that can be used to access a group of web sites bound by the ties of federation. Without federated identity, users are forced to manage different credentials for every site they use. This collection of IDs and passwords becomes difficult to manage and control over time, offering inroads for identity theft.

Federated identity management builds on a trust relationship established between an organization and a person. A federated identity makes it possible for the end-user to use this same trust relationship to access information with another, related company without establishing new credentials. Ultimately, federated identity offers businesses, governments, employees and consumers a more convenient and secure way of accessing distributed resources without losing control over sensitive identity information, and is a key component in driving the use of e-commerce and personalized data services, as well as Web-based services.

RSA Federated Identity Manager is the industry-leading federation solution enabling organizations to cost-effectively share trusted identities and collaborate with internal autonomous business units or with business partners, while ensuring ease-of-use for end-users. An enterprise-ready standalone and flexible identity federation solution, RSA Federated Identity Manager enables enterprises to securely exchange user identities between disparate internal business units and with customers and partners, utilizing the latest industry standards. It allows organizations to unlock the true potential of business relationships while maintaining consistent and centralized control over the policies associated with users and applications. Designed to be fully standards-based and compatible with other systems, it is based on the latest web services standards, including XML, SOAP, and SAML 2.0 With RSA Federated Identity Manager, organizations can easily integrate, configure and use, and obtain more options for securely federating both employee and consumer identities.

Data Sheet:

• RSA® Federated Identity Manager
• RSA Federated Identity Manager: A Technical Overview

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• Key Features
• Technical Specifications
• Frequently Asked Questions