Embedded Service Providers

In addition to setting up trust with internal or external service providers, you can reference ESPs in your enterprise. An ESP uses the Liberty protocol and does not require metadata entry, because this exchange happens automatically. The ESP comes with Access Manager and is embedded in Access Gateways. The ESP facilitates authentication between Identity Server and the resource protected by the device, as shown in as shown in Figure 2-21.

Figure 2-21 Embedded Service Provider