Access control for the services oriented architecture

Abstract
Federated Identity Management (FIdM) is being applied to Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments that cross enterprise boundaries. Though federation is essential in order to address the distributed nature of SOA, these FIdM solutions have been found to be inflexible, unscalable, and difficult to use, manage, and upgrade. We contend that a major reason for these difficulties is that FIdM addresses the wrong aspect of the problem. Specifically, FIdM does not address the federation of access policies. What is needed is a system for Federated Access Management (FAccM). This paper demonstrates the benefits of FAccM over FIdM for SOA deployments and shows how FAccM can be implemented using the existing web services standards.

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