For those who cannot upgrade to a safe version immediately, GitLab suggests enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) for all accounts, and setting the SAML 2FA bypass option to "do not allow." ...

A Few Best Practices for Implementation Successful SAML implementation requires careful planning and collaboration across multiple stakeholders to ensure seamless authentication and security. Cairns ...

SAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. The single most important problem that SAML was created to solve is the Web browser Single ...

“Golden SAML poses serious risk because it allows attackers to fake an identity and forge authentication to any cloud app (Azure, AWS, vSphere, etc.) that supports SAML authentication.

Security assertion markup language (SAML) is an open standard that defines how providers can offer both authentication and authorization services. Here's what you need to know.

The Golden SAML attack is a variation of this attack, but for services that use the SAML 2.0 protocol, an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties.

Andrew promised that support for "SAML 2.0 passive authentication from Office desktop applications" also will be enabled when Microsoft issues that update sometime "later in 2014." ...

Cloud-based communications platform Slack finished patching a severe security hole Thursday affecting portions of its platform that used Security Assertion Markup Language for user authentication.

SAML authentication certificates, generated with tools other than dedicated cloud identity solutions, can be forged by hackers, according to a new proof of concept. There is now a way to forge ...

How Businesses Can Plan for a Successful SAML Deployment A successful SAML deployment requires careful planning, selecting the right IDPs and SPs so that there is seamless interoperability between ...