For years, companies have kept stores of identity information about employees, customers, and partners. These databases and directories are critical components of a company’s identity infrastructure.

Federated identity management lets individuals use the same user name, password or other authentication mechanism to perform a single sign-on, and access applications and data hosted by more than one ...

“We are at the beginning of a very big thing,” says Mike Beach, associate technical fellow at The Boeing Co. “We are on the edge of a huge uptake of this idea of federated identity over the Internet, ...