“WS-Security and SAML round out the basic identity and access management needs for secure communications,” says Jason Bloomberg, an analyst with ZapThink. “TransactionMinder will allow systems to securely communicate using Web services.”

TransactionMinder competes with products such as VeriSign’s Trust Gateway and with integrated capabilities from BEA Systems, IBM and Microsoft.

But Bloomberg says other protocols are needed for more sophisticated security, such as those for policy and federation that are in development under the WS-Security umbrella.

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