A security administrator is troubleshooting an authentication issues using a network sniffer. The
security administrator reviews a packet capture of the authentication process and notices that
authentication is performed using extensible markup over SOAP. Which of the following
authentication services is the security administrator troubleshooting?
A.
SAML
B.
XTACACS
C.
Secure LDAP
D.
RADIUS
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol that allows programs that run on disparate operating systems (such as Windows and Linux) to communicate using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and its Extensible Markup Language (XML).
A: SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML, pronounced sam-el) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider and a service provider.