Executive View: WSO2 Identity Server - 71129

In contrast to common application servers, WSO2 provides a more comprehensive platform, adding on the one hand features such as event processing and business rule management, but on the other hand also providing strong support for security features. The latter includes WSO2 API Manager, which manages API (Application Programming Interface) traffic and thus supports organizations in managing and protecting the APIs they are exposing, for instance to business partners. The other core security component is WSO2 Identity Server, which is the product covered specifically in this document.

WSO2 Identity Server is the main security component of the entire WSO2 suite, providing a variety of services, ranging from identity management to Single Sign-On and Dynamic Authorization Management, based on XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) and other approaches. WSO2 provides a platform for application developers which means that the entire functionality is exposed via a SOAP API and thus can be integrated into other applications.