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Citrix' Project Callisto Team Starts Blogging

Friday, 24 November 2006 by Michel Roth

Project Callisto is a long-term strategic project within Citrix to consider the world of authentication and single sign-on, and to determine standards and technologies that Citrix can leverage in order to improve the security, consistency and interoperability between all of our products and with key 3rd-party vendor systems. Indeed achieving specific improvements in these areas is the mission of Project Callisto, a mission that we on the Callisto Team are strongly committed to.

Over time the Callisto Team intends to tell you all about our thinking around authentication and single sign-on, and we would also like to invite you to share with us your thinking in these areas. We hope to establish a dialogue that will allow all of us to be better informed and better prepared for the future, and to allow us to take mutual advantage of exciting new technologies such as Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and other Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based services, and to make better use of the existing ones such as Kerberos. In addition some of our colleagues will be posting their views on how these technologies are affecting their specific products, for instance Andrew Innes (the Web Interface Guy) wrote a post introducing ADFS, and Jay Tomlin wrote a post on federation in the world of Web Interface.

In the near future we intend to bring you a lot more detail on our current thinking, and to talk more about our intention to address this vast space in more manageable phases. We are currently only in "phase 1" but don't let that fool you. We think we have a lot to say but more importantly with your help we know there's a lot we can learn.

Read Citrix' Project Callisto Team blog here.