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Active Directory Federation Services

Description

Identity Operation Services supports an enterprise service that allows the secure sharing of identity information between trusted business partners (known as a federation) across an extranet. When a user needs to access a web application from one of its federation partners, the user's own organization is responsible for authenticating the user and providing identity information in the form of "claims" to the partner that hosts the web application. The hosting partner uses its trust policy to map the incoming claims to claims that are understood by its web application, which uses the claims to make authorization decisions.

Available to:

Vanderbilt Community, Affiliates, and Partners

How to get it

Active Directory Federation Service is an enterprise authentication service that is used to federate with Vanderbilt University.  For more information, contact the Identity Operations Directory Services team. To learn more about authentication with federated services, please visit the authentication website.