First OAuth 2.0 and SAML identity federation platform to be shown by Gluu

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 First OAuth 2.0 and SAML identity federation
platform to be shown by Gluu

• Gluu will demo today for the first time its
  consolidated SAML and OAuth2 federation
  interface. The bi-monthly Gluu EDU webinar
  demonstrates how universities are using SAML to
  integrate cloud applications and to connect to
  the websites available using the in Common
  federation. The combined SAML 2.0/ OAuth2
  interface now enables institutions to prepare for
  the arrival of OpenID Connect and UMA, two
  important new profiles of 2 factor auth that
  better support cloud, mobile and social
  applications.
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• Weve been working hard to consolidate our SAML
  and OpenID Connect interfaces, and are excited to
  offer a comprehensive user interface that
  supports current and next-gen identity federation
  standards for organizational trust management,
  said Gluu CEO Mike Schwartz. In particular,
  there is quite a bit of overlap between SAML and
  OpenID Connect, especially the need to share
  strong authentication and map identity
  information from existing sources, like an
  organizations LDAP or Active Directory.
• The goal of the recurring Gluu EDU webinar,
  hosted every other Friday at 200pm EST, is to
  educate university IT staff on the benefits of
  using Gluus cloud identity service to remove
  much of the complexity associated with launching
  and managing an organizational SAML IdP using
  Shibboleth software.

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In addition to the OpenID Connect profile of
OAuth2, Gluu also implements the User Managed
Access, or UMA standard. The targeted use case is
to enable organizations to restrict access to
certain enterprise APIs, while leveraging OpenID
Connect to define identity authentication,
discovery and attribute release policies.
According to Maciej Machulak, Vice-Chair of the
User-Managed Access Work Group, Gluus early
implementation of UMA shows how the use of OAuth2
is gaining adoption and solving important new
uses cases for authorization and access control
for APIs.   Other standards supported by Gluu
include SCIM and RADIUS. Additionally, the Gluu
interface supports customizable two-factor
authentication that allows an organization to
leverage strong authentication in their
federation service.   About Gluu Gluu (gluu.org)
is an Austin, TX startup that provides open
source and on demand cloud identity and trust
management. Gluu leverages standards such as
OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, and SCIM to make
achieving single sign-on (SSO) secure and fast.
Deployed quickly on public and private cloud
servers, Gluus cloud identity platform helps
organizations address the installation and
operational issues of an organizational identity
provider at a predictable annual cost.   Article
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