Claims-based Identity for Windows: The Big Picture

Claims-based identity provides a consistent way for applications to handle identity whether they’re accessed locally, via the Internet, across company boundaries, or in other ways.

Claims-based identity is becoming the standard approach to working with identity. This course provides an introduction to the concepts of claims-based identity using Microsoft technologies as concrete examples. The goal is to provide a big-picture overview, explaining what this approach offers, how it works, and why you would use it.