New Authentication Technology

Identity Provider (issuer) => STS (security token services) => Token (contains claims and signature)

Identity Provider or Issuer

It's an authority that makes claims about user

Example Identity providers

Token & and its Claims

A token is a set of bytes that expresses Information about an entity. example a user.

1. A token consists of one or more claims
2. Each claim contains Information about the entity
3. A token also contains a signature, which contains information such as who created this token and guards/protects against changes.

The token workflow process behind the scenes

Accessing an Enterprise application 

Claim Transformation

Microsoft Identity Technology

Windows Azure Active Directory as a Federation Provider

More screenshots at http://1drv.ms/1gVRxtT