Choosing between SAML, OIDC, and OAuth 2.0? Explore 12 critical differences to help your B2B engineering team select the right authentication protocol today.

The future of authentication will not rely on SAML, but with OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 instead, Dave Kearns contends in a blog post for KuppingerCole. SAML, or Security Assertion Markup Language, is ...

Authentication protocols serve as the backbone of online security, enabling users to confirm their identities securely and access protected information and services. They define how claimants (users ...

With today’s announcement from Facebook of its plans to take its Facebook Connect program into the mobile sphere with Single Sign-on, it started to raise some questions from across various points. On ...

Cloud-native design can offer tremendous security—but getting there needs a structured design approach to safeguard enterprise systems and data In a time where services and their consumers are ...

A security researcher has uncovered serious security vulnerabilities in the technologies used by many websites to authenticate users via third-party websites. A blog posted late last week revealed the ...

A serious vulnerability in both the OAuth and OpenID protocols could lead to complications for those who use the services to login to websites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Microsoft, PayPal ...

Digital identity is becoming increasingly important as enterprises strive to protect and control access to online resources. A series of maturing standards is helping make identity management and ...

If you’re a security and risk professional in charge of protecting consumer-facing applications, you may have heard that OpenID is a “toy,” or it’s an insecure protocol, or other critiques. And then ...