Teaching federated identity in computer and information science

Authors:
George Whitson
Affiliations:
The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Computer security has become a major area of computer science. Most colleges and universities now teach several courses in computer security and also cover security topics in many of their courses. The introductory computer security course covers security mechanisms like encryption, message authentication techniques and SSL. The introductory programming course now discusses how to avoid buffer overflow attacks rather than just looking at data validation. But, Federated Identity, a logical extension of authentication, is often little mentioned outside of Web security classes. In this paper we describe Federated Identity as it is currently practiced and then describe a number of courses where we have covered both the theory and practice of Federated Identity.