OpenID Connect is a promising solution for long-standing federated SSO needs that were not solved by earlier more complex technologies such as SAML, partly due to its OAuth underpinnings,” writes Eve Maler in the Zero Trust ID Standards TechRadar report.

1. Gluu was cited as one vendor that currently provides productized support for OpenID
Connect, a set of specifications that rests on a foundation of OAuth 2.0 to provide
authentication single sign on, social, and cloud applications. The Forrester Research,
Inc. report, ”TechRadar™ For Security Pros: Zero Trust Identity Standards, Q3 2012″ is
designed to help security and risk leaders assess traditional and emerging identity
security standards.
“OpenID Connect is a promising solution for long-standing federated SSO needs that
were not solved by earlier more complex technologies such as SAML, partly due to its
OAuth underpinnings,” writes Eve Maler in the Zero Trust ID Standards TechRadar
report. She continued, “OpenID Connect is poised to add great value to B2E, B2B, B2C,
and hybrid SSO use cases, and to pave the way for identity claims-based access to
online resources.”
OpenID Connect can be considered a follow-on to OpenID, but its technical basis is
sufficiently different and should be considered on its own merits. The promise of
OpenID Connect is a no-compromise approach to cloud identity and access
management needs only partially enabled by SAML for B2B SSO, OpenID for B2C SSO,
and OAuth 2.0 for SaaS API authorization.

2. “Although vendor support for OpenID Connect was described as “early days,” Gluu is
seeing increased interest and unique business cases around the OAuth 2.0 and OpenID
Connect standards” said Mike Schwartz, CEO and Founder of Gluu. “We’re learning a
tremendous amount from our live deployment of OpenID Connect and are thrilled to
be recognized for providing productized vendor support for OpenID Connect.”
While the OpenID Connect specification is still being finalized at the OpenID
Foundation, its’ OAuth 2.0 technical basis and support from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo,
and others, presents a compelling case that the standard will be finalized, adopted,
and will have a profound impact on web based federated identity. “There are now very
few alternative standards under active development for enabling user authentication,
client authentication, client registration, and discovery. Even the UMA profile of
OAuth 2.0 is building on these OpenID Connect defined endpoints,” commented Gluu
CEO Mike Schwartz.

3. 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 easy.
Deployed quickly on public and private cloud servers, Gluu’s cloud identity platform
helps organizations address the installation and operational issues of an organizational
identity provider at a predictable annual cost.
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