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Article: Hooked On Phishing 

This article talks about the identity theft problem and says that "Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) will become the cornerstone of Microsoft's adoption of Web services security protocols on the Windows platform, supporting authentication and authorization services between disparate systems and across corporate boundaries. It will allow users to 'federate' identities between corporate boundaries. Federation lets an identity credential issued by one company be used for access to a partner's network."

I've talked to several AD MVPs and none know much, if anything, about ADFS. This make me skeptical on the potential for ADFS. I'd rather have the industry say ADFS will be the "cornerstone" than Microsoft. People have been talking about federation for years, but I still don't think sys admins and even IT executives really understand it. Microsoft needs to address this before ADFS will be a success. Heck, MIIS still isn't widely adopted because many people don't understand its value (or don't think the value is great enough to offset the implementation cost).

# posted by Robbie (4/30/2005 10:42:20 AM)

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