The system is designed to allow companies to link together their portals into extranets. A manufacturer would be able to add users at all its component suppliers to its own portal, using each partner’s own login assertions.
This was possible in version 1.0, but it required a full installation of Oblix’s CoreID at each partner site. The main addition to the system is spoke packs, allowing each partner site to connect to the hub with a minimal installation.
The system uses the security assertions markup language, SAML, as well as the Microsoft/IBM-led WS-Federation and Sun-led Liberty specifications to handle the trading of security assertions between sites.
Director of product management Rick Caccia said that tying sites together this way eliminates the problem of users who have their credentials revoked at one site using their orphaned sign-on at a partner site.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
