Moving Identity Management to Cloud - The all-new WSO2 Cloud Identity

WSO2 announced it's latest cloud solution today, WSO2 Cloud Identity. WSO2 Cloud Identity is built on top of open source WSO2 Identity Server by adding multi-tenancy capabilities.

With WSO2 Cloud Identity, organizations no longer need to undergo the pain of handling identity management by them selves. The cost involved in hardware, software, and maintenance is totally eliminated with this hosted cloud solution.

WSO2 Cloud Identity supports a set of open standards like OpenID, Cardspace authentication, XACML, SAML 2.0 and WS-Trust.

WSO2 Cloud Identity facilitates organizations to centralize their identity management to a single point and experience seamless integrations across multiple applications and services using OpenID and SAML based Single Sign-On.  They can use the Security Token Service to authenticate users for their web services. Not to forget XACML, the de facto standard for fine grained authorization, which is another cool feature of WSO2 Cloud Identity. 

This is ideal for small and medium size organizations who spend a significant percentage of their budget for identity management solutions.

Registering and starting using WSO2 Cloud Identity is just few clicks away.. Goto https://identity.cloud.wso2.com and register a domain. This blog by Prabath gives some guidelines to setup your domain. 

Add users or import existing users to your user store at WSO2 Cloud Identity. Dimuthu talks on this in detail in this article.

Now all the users in your domain are associated with an OpenID. Use this OpenID to access a large portion of web based resources who acts as OpenID relying parties. Learn more about configuring OpenIDs in your domain from this blog post by Prabath.

WSO2 Cloud Identity supports SAML 2.0 based single sign-on. Users can use their credentials at WSO2 Cloud Identity to access a range of online services. This article walks you through the steps required to integrate Google Apps with WSO2 Cloud Identity. 

Don't be late. Go and register your domain and let WSO2 Cloud Identity to take over the burden of identity management for your organization.