Organizations worldwide leverage SAML 2.0 to enable new business services, help meet regulatory requirements and provide users with better protection against online fraud and identity theft. SAML 2.0-based digital identity management applications are among the many public and private sector deployments helping to drive a more secure and privacy-respecting internet identity layer across applications, sectors and regions based on SAML 2.0 standards.

“Virtually all federation efforts and almost all federation product vendors have built-in SAML 2.0 support,” said Gregg Kreizman, research director, Gartner. “Governments and enterprises planning new identity federations should base their implementations on the SAML 2.0 standards.”*

With government organizations in The Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe building and deploying SAML 2.0-based identity applications, SAML 2.0 has become the standard of choice in the global eGovernment and public sectors. These governments are relying on SAML 2.0 to deliver a wide variety of new online services to citizens, help meet compliance mandates and to provide business and trading partners with a secure and trusted platform for conducting identity related transactions. A digital map and description of global eGovernment deployments based on SAML 2.0 Liberty Federation is available.

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