This whitepaper reviews how solutions from CA (CA SiteMinder, CA FederationManager) and Microsoft (Active Directory Federation Services (fornerly "Code Named" Geneva) provide this middleware software layer, while supporting standards based communication protocols that enable cross-technology access management and identity federation scenarios. Specific interoperability oriented uses cases are discussed in detail.

Get started building claims aware applications using Microsaoft "Code Name" Geneva Framework. In this paper concepts and terminology are introduced to help developers understand the benefits and concepts behind the claims based model itentity. Security expertise is not required but familiarity with ASP.NET or WCF programming is. A background in building web applications or services that care about authentication and authorization is expected. As such, the focus of the paper is on building relying parties using the framework.

Learn about Microsofts new "Geneva" claims based access platform. Read about the main components of "Geneva and how they work together to help solve application access problems with a simplified access model. Understand how claims can be used to accross a wide variety of scenarios including enterprise, federation, and web. In this paper new concepts and terminology are introduced to help architects, developers and IT professionsls understand the benefirts behind the claims based model of identity. A background in developing, deploying or managing web applications and services that entail authentication is expected.

Copy: Learn about the need for standards-based identity federation, and the solutions that improved the interoperability fo mixed technology directory environments.

Copy: Read how Sun and Microsoft are utilizing the SAML federation standard in both the Sun OpenSSO Enterprize federation solution and the forthcoming Microsoft "Geneva" Server federation solution.