The integration of software and assets you own with software and services in the cloud gives government new choices for balancing system management, cost, and security while helping to improve citizen services. Federal, state, and local governments can use the cloud to deliver better services, even...

The goal of this whitepaper is to help developers get started building claims-aware applications using Windows Identity Foundation. This paper introduces concepts and terminology to help developers understand the benefits and concepts behind the claims-based model of identity. Most developers are not...

Commercial businesses and governments are rolling out identity systems to improve their security and to provide online access to services. Current identity framework efforts (including federated identity protocols such as SAML and OpenID) do not provide the highest levels of security and may in fact...