Choice of suitable Identity and Access Management standards for mobile computing and communication

Nitin Naik*, Paul Jenkins, David Newell

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Abstract

Enterprises have recognised the importance of personal mobile devices for business and official use. Employees and consumers have been freely accessing resources and services from their principal organisation and partners' businesses on their mobile devices, to improve the efficiency and productivity of their businesses. This mobile computing-based business model has one major challenge, that of ascertaining and linking users' identities and access rights across business partners. The parent organisation owns all the confidential information about users but the collaborative organisation has to verify users' identities and access rights to allow access to their services and resources. This challenge involves resolving how to communicate users' identities to collaborative organisations without sending their confidential information. Several generic Identity and Access Management (IAM) standards have been proposed, and three have become established standards: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Open Authentication (OAuth), and OpenID Connect (OIDC). Mobile computing and communication have some specific requirements and limitations; therefore, this paper evaluates these IAM standards to ascertain suitable IAM to protect mobile computing and communication. This evaluation is based on the three types of analyses: Comparative analysis, suitability analysis and security vulnerability analysis of SAML, OAuth and OIDC.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Telecommunications
Subtitle of host publicationIntelligence in Every Form, ICT 2017
EditorsHamid Aghvami, Christos Verikoukis, Georgios Ellinas, Vasos Vassiliou, George Kamel, Paolo Bellavista, Panayiotis Kolios, Symeon Chatzinotas
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538606421
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Aug 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event24th International Conference on Telecommunications, ICT 2017 - Limassol, Cyprus
Duration: 3 May 20175 May 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Telecommunications: Intelligence in Every Form, ICT 2017

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Telecommunications, ICT 2017
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityLimassol
Period3/05/175/05/17

Keywords

  • IAM
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Mobile Computing and Communication
  • OAuth
  • OpenID Connect
  • SAML
  • SSO

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