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March 31, 2008 Article #19682 Volume 122, Issue 1 Security
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Doing business outside the firewall while ensuring security and privacy is what federation is all about 
Security Is More than Just an Afterthought
Sun's Jamie Nelson on Federated Identity Management
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When Marina Sum interviewed Sun's Director of Engineering for Access and Federation Management Jamie Nelson, one of his most striking observations was that "...in developing Web applications...identity is often an afterthought." Worse yet, he added, too often, the security portion of an application is typically built in a rush, sometimes with boilerplate community code. The implications for single sign-on (SSO) in such a case are not good, he said.
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