Even with all the support OpenID enjoys within the tech industry, it’s no secret that the identity management technology still confuses the hell out of most web users. One of OpenID’s biggest ...

Facebook has joined the OpenID Foundation's board to join companies like Google, IBM and Yahoo. The big question is how OpenID and Facebook Connect, a rival identity format, will be tied together.

The OpenID Foundation today announced the launch of OpenID Connect, the organization's latest standard for authenticating users and building distributed identity systems.

Out-of-box deployment via SAML and OpenID Connect will enable Adapt to provide strong MFA without custom integration work in the vast majority of environments, the company said in a statement, ...