Shibboleth: a Strategic Approach to School Web Content Authentication and Authorisation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Technical standards and policy team: Shibboleth: a Strategic Approach to School Web Content Authentication and Authorisation, BECTA October 3, 2005

well I don't agree but I'm not surprised: "Becta's research has shown that Shibboleth is the most suitable solution for securely accessing online content for the education sector and should be adopted as an integral component in the strategic approach to the future development of ICT in education, skills and children's services." The benefits of Shibboleth are pretty easy to recognize: it's an open source single sign-on solution that improves personalization and reduces costs and security issues. More...