trust framework or Novell's Bandit project). Technologies Technologies used for federated identity include SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), OAuth, OpenID, Security Tokens (Simple Web Tokens, JSON Web Tokens, and SAML assertions), Web Service Specifications, and Windows Identity Foundation. Government initiatives United States In the United States, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, has published a building block whitepaper in December 2016 on this topic The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP enables Agencies to rapidly adapt from old, insecure legacy IT to mission-enabling, secure, and cost effective cloud-based IT. Examples Digital identity platforms that allow users to log onto third-party websites, applications, mobile devices and gaming systems with their existing identity, i.e. enable social login, include: Microsoft account – Formerly Windows Live ID Google Account Facebook - Login to public social venues. Yahoo! – users can use their Yahoo! ID to log onto other sites, and users used to have the possibility to log onto Yahoo! with their Google or Facebook IDs. Twitter LastPass LinkedIn PayPal Foursquare MySpace AOL Mozilla Persona On November 30, 2016, Mozilla shut down the persona.org services Amazon GitHub Note: Facebook Connect is a delegated ID, not a federated ID. See also Account pre-hijacking Claims-based identity Digital identity Self-sovereign identity References Identity management Identity management systems Computer access control