Back cover ® Federated Identity Management and Web Services Security with IBM Tivoli Security Solutions Introduction to Web services security standards Complete product architecture and component Today, companies have no way to trust identities belonging to their partners, suppliers, contracts and their outsourcers. This lack of trust means companies end-up creating online identities (and passwords) for all users. This approach is very costly, inefficient, and creates user frustration with multiple accounts and registrations for each Web Site. Federation is the set of business and technology agreements as well as INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION