Identity Federation

Today's global business environment has created a demand for new business models and processes where closer relationships between business partners, suppliers and customers are needed. As the number of trusted parties grow, the issue of establishing secure relations for sharing sensitive information becomes a challenge. With PortWise Identity Federation, an organization can establish trust relationships with these entities to shift user identity management to the respective user's home domain for secure and user friendly information sharing. 

PortWise Identity Federation provides an infrastructure that enables identities and their relevant entitlements to be propagated across administrative domains, both within an organization as well as across organization boundaries.

Business Values 

By enabling PortWise Identity Federation, an organization may offer its business partners and customers fully secured, role-based access to sensitive information, without having to worry about the management of external user identities. Management of user identities and roles are then handled by a user's home domain to enable single sign-on functionality and lower costs related to identity management. An organization may benefit from Identity Federation in the following ways:

• Stronger relationships with customers are developed by offering seamless access to corporate resources. Disruptions in productivity such as when users cannot use services due to account locking, password resets, etc. are significantly reduced.
• Reduced administration is realized by shifting user identity management to a user's home domain.  
• The Enabling of Single Sign-On to both internal and external applications reduces costs and improves the end-user experience.
• Ideal for online business partnership integration and company/departmental mergers.
• Secure "cloud applications" With PortWise Identity federation organizations may use their own mechanisms for strong authentication instead of relying on static password solutions offered by the service provider to significantly increase security in cloud applications.