A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control

This book explains claims-based identity how to use it in the context of some commonly occurringscenarios.

Claims offer a single conceptual model, programming interface,and end-user paradigm; whereas before claims, we had a cacophonyof disjoint approaches. In my experience, the people who use thesenew approaches to build products universally agree that they solvemany pressing problems that were impossibly diffi cult before. Yetthese people also offer a word of advice.

Though embracing what hasexisted, the claims-based paradigm is fundamentally a new one; thebiggest challenge is to understand this and take advantage of it.

That's why this book is so useful. It deals with the fundamentalissues, but it is practical and concise. The time spent reading it will berepaid many times over as you become an expert in one of the transformativetechnologies of our time.