Integration and Identity Management Technologies Glossary

• Active Directory
  An introduction to Microsoft's Active Directory service.
  
  
• Active Directory Groups
  An introduction to managing authorization through Active Directory groups.
  
  
• Active Directory Sites
  An overview of Active Directory sites and how they help to ensure rapid and reliable network communication.
  
  
• Kerberos
  An overview of the Kerberos network authentication protocol and how it works.
  
  
• Lightweight Directoy Access Protocol (LDAP)
  An overview of the LDAP standard including diagrams.
  
  
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
  An introduction to SSL, the most widely deployed security protocol on the Internet.
  
  
• Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML)
  An introduction to SAML, a vendor neutral XML-based framework for exchanging security information across federated Web services environments.
  
  
• Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation (SPNEGO) Mechanism
  An overview of the SPNEGO mechanism.
  
  
• Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
  An overview of the SASL protocol framework, which provides the means to use authentication mechanisms other than simple authentication and SSL over connection-based protocols.
  
  
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
  An overview of SOAP, an XML-based, platform and language-independent protocol for exchanging structured information between applications in distributed environments.
  
  
• Smart Cards
  With the increased emphasis placed on security and total cost of ownership by IT managers and CIOs, companies are turning to smart cards as a key component of their information security solutions.
  
  
• Web Services
  An introduction to Web services and creating interoperability by reusing existing Web infrastructure.
  
  
• Security Glossary
  A glossary of security terminology.