CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone Guide › Introduction › Product and Configuration Overview

Product and Configuration Overview

Enterprise applications and services need secure but seamless access to services from one domain to another has increased. CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone enables identity information to be flexible and portable, offering secure single sign-on and single logout across a network of trusted business partners. As a standalone product, it does not require the existence of any federation software on the target system.

CA SiteMinder® Federation Standalone supports the following features:

• SAML 1.1
• SAML 2.0
• WS-protocol support.
• Support for FIPS 140-2 compatible encryption.
• The product can be deployed as a standalone entity or together with CA SiteMinder® Web Access Manager for federation and access control.
• Your site can act as the asserting party and the relying party.
• The ability to pass identity data to a target application as an encrypted cookie or header.

The following flow diagram shows the general process for configuring federation with the product.