Are there more modern Membership/Security implementations than ASP.NET Membership Provider?

There is also WIF (Windows Identity Foundation) wich leverages SAML tokens to perform federation identity. This approach allows you to externalize your Identity requirements to an external and specialized platform.

I haven't heard of anything more secure over the shipped asp.net providers, however, I do like using Altaris Web Security.

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