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Federation Security Services Introduction
SiteMinder Federation Security Services (FSS) allow the exchange of security information between business partners. The services provide seamless authentication and fine-grained authorization across enterprises.
Federation Security Services are implemented with the SPS in the following ways:
- As a replacement for a SiteMinder Web Agent.
- As a replacement for the SiteMinder Web Agent and the Web Agent Option Pack.
Federation services enable an organization and its partners to:
- Exchange user information in a secure manner
- Map user identities at one organization to user identities at other organizations
- Provide single sign-on across different organizations
- Control access to resources based on user information received from a partner
- Interoperate across heterogeneous environments, such as Windows, UNIX and various Web servers, such as IIS, Sun Java System and Apache
