Web Services are emerging as the preeminent method for program-to-program communication across corporate networks and the Internet, but securing Web Services has been a challenge until recently.  Typical Web authentication and authorization techniques employ browser-to-server architectures (not program-to-program).

This results in user identity ending at the Web Application Server, forcing the Web Services Provider to blindly trust that the Web Services Requester had established identity and trust with the end user. Moreover, this mechanism does not provide any way for the Web Services Provider to verify the authenticity of the request. Identity-Enabled Web Services solves this problem.  It provides secure, standards-based, end-to-end federated identity that spans from the Web browser to the Web Services Provider.

Download Ping Identity’s latest whitepaper to learn more about Identity Enabled Web Services.