Simple authorization for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices.

Style of software architecture for web-based, distributed systems.

Standard, XML-based framework for creating and exchanging security information between online partners. OpenAM supports multiple versions of SAML including 2.0.

Federation standard, whose concepts and capabilities contributed to SAML 2.0.

Lightweight protocol intended for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment.

XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information.

Identity federation standard, part of the Web Services Security framework.

Declarative access control policy language implemented in XML, and also a processing model, describing how to interpret policies.