Automated Creation and Realization of Security Federation for Cross-Organizational Business Processes

Execution of cross-organizational business processes requires a federated identity management architecture for administrative domains of different partner organizations, by which each partner in the business processes is enabled to maintain its own identity data and provide authentication information to other partners. This requires partners to trust each other in terms of the identity information provided. This paper presents an automated approach for determining the structure and members of such trust realms based on well- defined business requirements.