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SiteMinder Components for Federation Security Services

SiteMinder's Federation Security Services solution encompasses several components:

• SAML Assertion Generator--A Policy Server component that creates SAML assertions at a producer site.
• WS-Federation Assertion Generator--A Policy Server component that creates WS-Federation RequestSecurityTokenResponse messages containing SAML assertions.
• SAML and WS-Federation Authentication Schemes--A Policy Server component that validates SAML or WS-Federation assertions and maps assertion data to a local user at a site that consumes assertions. The supported authentication schemes are: SAML 1.x artifact, SAML 1.x POST, and SAML 2.0 (artifact and POST binding), and WS-Federation.
• Federation Web Services—A Web Agent component that supports assertion retrieval, session synchronization and notification alerts at a producing authority site, as well as collecting assertions at a consuming authority site.
• SAML Affiliate Agent—A stand-alone component that provides authentication and session management capabilities to a consumer site that does not use a SiteMinder Policy Server and Web Agent. This Agent only supports SAML 1.0.

  Note: When the SAML Affiliate Agent is the consumer, the Web Agent provides access to the SAML assertion generator.