FEDERATED AUTHENTICATION

Sigaba’s secure messaging solutions are built for the future. Sigaba’s Federated Authentication capability enables organizations to work securely across internal business units, and with external business partners and other third parties as if they were part of the same security domain.

FEDERATED TRUST POINTS

How it works
Trust points can be established via Federated Authentication. Sigaba’s Authentication Servers have their own public/private key pair associated with each server. These key pairs can be generated on the fly or provisioned by a trusted Certificate Authority. Authentication assertions that are signed using a given Authentication Server’s private key, require the public key of that server in order to verify the requestor’s identity.

Key Servers are configured to trust one or more Authentication Servers. Each of these trust configurations, or trust points, contains a copy of the public key associated with that specific Authentication Server. These trust points can include Authentication Servers in multiple disparate organizations. Key Servers in each organization can be configured to trust as many Authentication Servers as desired. This forms the basis of the Federated Authentication concept.

Key Benefits
Sigaba helps organizations fully realize the benefits of federation, such as increased security and improved access to cross-domain resources. We enable secure communication to be conducted globally, while authentication takes place locally.

Sigaba’s customers include major banking institutions, healthcare organizations, government agencies and corporations that want to enable secure communications among a broad network of customers, business partners, agencies, patients and providers, in a way that affords convenience, efficiency, cost savings and complete privacy protection.

Sigaba’s support for Federated Authentication makes it faster and easier to do business or communicate online, by enabling individuals to conduct online financial transactions, receive statements, communicate with health providers, read secure email and receive online news – all with the same credentials.

Evolving Technology
Having designed our software solutions early-on to address standard specifications in federated authentication, Sigaba is the first company to provide federated authentication for secure email. We were also first to introduce a Secure Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-compliant solution (a set of specifications for single sign-on and federated authentication), demonstrating this interoperability in July 2002.