Microsoft Passport passport - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Microsoft Passportwww.passport.com

Waldemar Swiercz

• OnLine service that allows secure access to participating Web sites or services
• Uses your e-mail address as sign name
• Uses one password to all Web sites
• Allows to make faster, more secure online purchases

• The information you register with Passport is stored securely in the database
• When you sign in to any participating Web sites you use your Passport: login and password
• During the Internet session you can sign in to the other Web sites by clicking

• Microsoft does not share the personal information in your Passport profile with other companies without your consent.
• If you have a Passport wallet, your wallet information is never shared with participating sites at sign in.

• You can choose how much information you want to share with participating Web sites
• Sharing lets the sites speed your registration and offer you personalized services

• You store your credit cards information and your shipping and billing addresses in a secure on line location
• Only you have the access to this information
• You can store multiple cards and addresses in your wallet

• When you are ready to make a purchase on participating Web site click
• You can choose which credit card to use in this purchase
• Passport shares only piece of wallet information with the merchant

• Never reveals your password to participating sites
• Uses industry-standard security technologies to encrypt information transmitted over the Internet
• Few minutes to use wallet, then you have to retype your password
• After several unsuccessful attempts to sign-in Passport temporarily blocks an access

• Passport uses “cookies” to enable your access to other Web sites
• All Passport’s cookies are encrypted
• When you sign-out all cookies are deleted from your computer

• Allows children to have their own Passports
• Parents supervise Kids Passport
• When child makes request, parent reviews it and can grant or deny consent
• Kids Passport is not a Web filter

• Microsoft Passport is a suite of e-business services that make using the Web and making online purchases easier, faster, and more secure.
• Your business can implement one or all Passport services on your site

• Single sign-in (SSI) service lets users create one name and password to access all Web sites participating in the Passport service
• Express purchase (EP) service lets users make fast, secure online purchases using information they have pre-stored in their Passport.
• Kids Passport, an optional feature of the SSI service.Kids Passport helps to comply with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

• Lower costs by outsourcing the authentication process.
• You can focus on expanding your business instead of worrying about redesigning your database or authentication system.
• Increase traffic by simplifying sign-in and registration.
• More than 130 million Passport accounts and over 220 participating companies

• Passport express purchase provides easy checkout on your site
• Passport single sign-in service lets you identify users and target ads to them personally
• Passport express purchase uses powerful encryption technology, establishing secure data storage systems by a strict privacy policy

• Passport intends to charge a nominal annual license fee to service operators.
• Microsoft is currently waiving fees

• Registration - complete registration form and provide information about your company and authorized contacts.
• Download the documentation and software for the Passport services you want to implement from Developer Info area.
• Development and implementation - refer to the Microsoft Passport Communications Guidelines to help ensure your site's compliance with Passport communications standards.
• Final checklist - complete and submit a short checklist to make sure that everything is in order.

• Sites that offer the Passport service must display their own privacy statements and are bound by rules that require them to disclose how they use Passport information

• A secure central database that contains users' authentication credentials
• The registration and sign-in/sign-out pages, which Passport participating sites can cobrand.

• Allowing users to use their mobile phone numbers and numeric PINs to sign in.
• Automatically keeping users signed in across browser sessions.
• Current Passport users can avoid typing “@hotmail.com” or “@msn.com” to sign in

• Web server capable of handling HTTP GET and POST requests
• Support for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Microsoft® Windows NT® Server version 4.0 with Service Pack 4.0 or later or Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server
• Microsoft® Internet Information Server (IIS) version 4.0 or later
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 4.01 with Service Pack 2 or Internet Explorer 5.01 or later