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Protecting Federated Communication

Several mechanisms help secure transactions between federated partners, such as encrypting assertions and using SSL connections between partner sites.

When setting up a federated environment with Federation Manager, here are some recommendations for protecting your environment:

• Generating assertions for only one time use.
• Securing connections at the asserting and relying parties.
• Protecting against cross-site scripting.

These topics are described in the sections that follow.