As identity and access management and single sign-on become more prevalent across government, IT pros should catch up on the differences between different security protocols. Phil Goldstein is a ...

What is SAML and what is it used for? The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows security credentials to be shared by multiple computers across a network. It ...

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. SAML is a product of the OASIS Security Services ...

Heroku has explained why it emailed users with a sudden password reset warning earlier this week, and how it was due to the theft of OAuth tokens from GitHub. "[Our investigation] revealed that the ...