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Overcoming the Risks of the Perimeter-based Security with Strong Federated Identification Mechanisms

Authors:
Wellington Silva de Souza
Sergio Vianna Fialho

Keywords: network security; de-perimeterisation; federated identity; smart-cards; SAML

Abstract:
Nowadays, corporate networks appear completely unprepared to deal with threats from new technologies of communication, risk behavior of users, interoperability with third-party systems and outsourcing. The perimeter-based traditional security approach (model of the “castle and the moat”) hinders the development of enterprise systems and creates the delusion of protection in both administrators and users. To overcome these threats, a new data-safety oriented paradigm called ‘deperimeterisation’ appeared in the last decade. However, it depends on an effective federated identity mechanism to reach the goal of a borderless network. The main contribution of this work is to fill this gap with a proposal of a strong federated identification mechanism, based on the SAML protocol and smart-cards.

Pages: 126 to 130

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-249-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013