Reducing the integration tax of cross-organizational identity-based services with identity federation platforms

Abstract

The Internet has become an incomparable communication channel to reach old and new customers and to offer innovative services. Due to the increasing interest in Internet-based services, enterprises are trying to make the best use of the advantages provided by an online presence. Moreover, they collaborate in order to provide cross-organizational identity-based services, giving an added value to their traditional services. This poses new challenges regarding identity management between domains. An option to overcome them is to integrate an identity-federation platform with that type of services, but it is a very complex task. In this paper we propose to extend the capabilities of an open source application server in order to make it compatible with an identity-federation platform as a basis to support cross-organizational identity-based services, reducing dramatically the integration tax.