Identity Management Buzz

Come Join us in San Francisco for OpenSSO Community Day, CommunityOne West, and JavaOne!

Stephanie Brannan — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:20:16 -0500

OpenSSO Community Day

Join us Sunday May 31st, for OpenSSO Community Day at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It's our 'unconference' before the main conference and discussions will include OpenDS and Identity Connectors. Just show up prepared to talk about any topic related to Sun's open source identity projects. As always attendance is free. Join our Meetup to participate in this discussion. See you there!

CommunityOne West Conference

Whether you're a developer, technologist, or student, join us Monday, June 1- Wednesday, June 3 at the Moscone Center for technical education, OpenSSO talks, and a Hands On Lab at CommunityOne West. Don't miss the General Session Keynote Address with John Fowler, Dave Douglas, and Lou Tucker Monday, June 1st at 9:00 AM PT. The choice is yours-- attend in person or tune into our webcast for a live recording. Check out the complete conference schedule and the following free identity-related events.

Monday, June 1

Hands On Lab --Web Application Security with OpenSSO by Himanshu Vijay and Baby Sunil.
Pragmatic Identity 2.0--Invoking Identity Services with a Simplified REST/ROA Architecture by Daniel Raskin.
Metro Web Services, NetBeans IDE, GlassFish Application Server, and OpenSSO in Action with Amazon WS, Azure, and Office by Harold Carr.
Secure Web Services in Time for Tea, Using Metro and OpenSSO by Jonathan Scudder.

Wednesday, June 3

Deep Dives-- Identity Management with OpenSSO: Deploy an Identity Management Solution in Four hours by David Goldsmith.

JavaOne Conference

Continue the fun with more OpenSSO related talks, a BOF, and a Hands On Lab at JavaOne Tuesday, June 2- Friday, June 5. Stop by our pod (#462) to talk with identity experts and get a free t-shirt and open source CD! And, don't miss the following identity-related presentations:

Tuesday, June 2

Using and Participating in the OpenSSO Project by Sean Brydon, Pat Patterson, Aravindan Ranganathan.

Wednesday, June 3

Designing and Building Security into REST Applications by Sean Brydon, Aravindan Ranganathan, Paul Bryan.

Thursday, June 4

Pragmatic Identity 2.0: Simple, Open, Identity Services Using REST by Pat Patterson, Ron Ten-Hove.
Web Application Security with OpenSSO: From Simple Log-In to Single Sign-On to Federation by Pat Patterson, Himanshu Vijay, Baby Sunil.
A RESTful approach to identity-based web services by Hubert Le Van Gong, Marc Hadley.

Check Out Our Newest Identity Customer Video, Podcast, and Flash Presentation

Stephanie Brannan — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:04:51 -0500

Thomson Reuters Customer Video

Chris Lucock, head of Enterprise Architecture desktop products, talks about how their Sun OpenSSO Enterprise implementation is helping to improve customer experience and lower their total cost of ownership.

Here Comes the Sun

Nick Crown, Product Line Manager at Sun Microsystems, and Ian Glazer, Senior Analyst from the Burton Group, discuss access certification-- what it is, why it’s important, and recommendations for success.

Identity Management Flash Presentation

Got two minutes? See how Sun can help you solve identity challenges.

Identity Webinar Series- 3rd Wednesday of Every Month

Stephanie Brannan — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:18:03 -0500

Join us next week for our free monthly webinar. Learn how Sun offers the only high-performance directory server with essential data services including proxy, virtual directory, and data distribution.

Event Details

Topic: Directory Services for Enterprise Productivity Webinar
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT/ 18:00 GMT
Speaker: Nick Wooler, Product Line Manager for Sun's directory products, Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) and OpenDS.

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Check Out Our Newest Identity Management White Papers

Stephanie Brannan — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:24:25 -0500

Guide to Open Source Identity Management

This paper highlights how Sun Identity Management delivers low-cost, open-source software solutions that offer the flexibility, manageability, and cost-reducing benefits your business needs.

Microsoft "Geneva" Server and Sun OpenSSO

This paper focuses on interoperatibility utilizing the SAML federation standard in Sun OpenSSO and the forthcoming "Geneva" Server.

Experience Identity Manager 8.0 - With Free Introductory Training

Stephanie Brannan — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:21:43 -0500

The Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Product Overview and Architecture course provides an overview of Identity Management and the Sun Identity Manager product including new features, product architecture and functionality available with the Identity Manager 8.0 release. And even better, it will give you first-hand insight into the product features and benefits for free.

Sun Wins Best Innovation with Open SSO Fedlet at the European Identity Conference

Stephanie Brannan — Thu, 7 May 2009 11:41:28 -0500

Yesterday, Sun's OpenSSO Fedlet, a simple, lightweight federation for Java and .NET apps, was awarded "Best Innovation " in Identity and Access Management and Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance at the Kuppinger Cole European Identity Conference in Munich, Germany. Congratulations product team!

Check out a video of Kuppinger Cole Analyst, Felix Gaehtgens, interviewing our very own Pat Patterson posted on Daniel Raskin and Pat Patterson's blog.

Join us next week in Munich at the EIC Conference!

Stephanie Brannan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:33:11 -0500

Join Sun May 5-8 in Munich for this year's Kuppinger Cole European Identity Conference. See what's new in IT through speaker sessions, presentations, panels, thought leadership discussions, and analyst reviews. Topics include: Identity Management, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Don't forget to come by Sun's booth to enter our secret contest and hear what our very own experts have to say about identity management.

Sun Speaker Lineup

Tuesday, May 5

Pat Patterson and Daniel Raskin: OpenSSO Community Day --all day event
Eve Maler: The Care and Feeding of Online Relationships

Wednesday, May 6

Pat Patterson: Realigning AuthZ and Access Control with the Business
Fulup Ar Foll: Moving Digital Identity to the Cloud, a Fundamental Shift in Rethinking the Enterprise Collaborative Model

Thursday, May 7

Squire Earle: Role Lifecycle Management: Making Role Concepts Work
Rakesh Radhakrishnan: Identity and Policy- Aligning the Network with Services
Ludovic Poitou: Building an Identity Bus for the Future
Eve Maler: Take a Card: Information Cards as Enterprise Authenticators
Mark Craig: Virtual Directory Services

Friday, May 8

Dr. Steffo Weber and Abdi Mohammadi: Hands-On SOA and Web Security with the Geneva Framework and with OpenSSO

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Featured Training Offer: Enroll in Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Course & Get a Free Sony PSP

Stephanie Brannan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:47:45 -0500

The Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Installation and Administration Essentials workshop will take you through the new features provided in Sun Identity Manager 8.0, how to install, update, and patch Identity Manager. Additionally, students will be able to add and manage resources, seed Identity Manager accounts, and utilize NetBeans within the staging and deployed environment to access Identity Manager objects.

Course must be ordered by June 19 and completed by July 31.

Submit priority code WW49PSP with your order to get a free Sony PSP 3000.

See local website for additional terms and conditions. Available only in select countries.

Consumerization Versus ITization with Eve Maler

Stephanie Brannan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:58:33 -0500

Sun's Eve Maler, Emerging Technologies Director for Identity Software, discusses new and promising technologies related to digital identity management at this weeks RSA Conference in San Francisco. The interview highlights Maler's views on OAuth as a web friendly solution to the consumerization of IT.

View the full interview

Check out Eve's blog

New: OpenSSO Express

Stephanie Brannan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:27:09 -0500

Today Sun released OpenSSO Express for Google Apps Premier Edition customers. The OpenSSO solution delivers rapid federation single sign-on enabling employees to use their enterprise logins to access Google Apps for increased security, accelerated user adoption, and improved administrative benefits.

Read the full press release

Open-Source Identity Management Starter Kits

In conjunction with the OpenSSO Express launch, Sun also released Open-Source Identity Management Starter Kits, complete with technical articles and video demos. The kits are designed to help you solve specific business challenges, like Federated Single Sign-On to Google Apps and using OpenDS as a naming service for OpenSolaris, through open-source development.

Check out the starter kits

Check out Identity's New Face Lift!

Stephanie Brannan — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:50:43 -0500

We hope you enjoy browsing our newly designed web pages and find them much easier to navigate. We would love to hear your feedback. Feel free to drop us a line.

Don't have time to browse? Here's a little peak!

Join Sun at the RSA Conference!

Stephanie Brannan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:00:38 -0500

Join the Sun Identity Management team at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, April 20-24 for the 2009 RSA Conference. It's a great way to discover what's hot in security, see first hand identity management product demonstrations, and showcase your Wii bowling skills.

Hot Topics

A Pragmatic Approach to Building Identity Management for the Enterprise- Sun's Daniel Raskin and Pat Patterson explain how developers can use Sun's open source identity stack to invoke ROA / RESTful identity services that simplify the integration of Sun's identity management (IdM) features and capabilities with developer applications and services. More

Fostering Collaboration and Opportunities in Identity Management- Concordia Project workshop with Sun panelist Eve Maler. More

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Stephanie Brannan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:48:57 -0500

Topic: Humanize Access with Role Management Webinar

Details:
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Nick Crown, Product Line Manager for Sun's Identity Administration and Compliance products

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Identity Webinar Series- 3rd Wednesday of Every Month

Stephanie Brannan — Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:53:33 -0500

This Month's Topic: Humanize Access with Role Management

Join us next week for our free monthly webinar. Learn how Sun's role management solutions can simplify and humanize your current approach to the everyday problems of defining, assigning, attesting, and auditing access.

Event Details
Topic: Humanize Access with Role Management Webinar
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT
Speaker: Nick Crown, Product Line Manager for Sun's Identity Administration and Compliance products

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View Past Webinars

Everyday Provisioning- Watch now

Attacking Complexity with Simplicity- Watch now

Access Management, Federation, and Secure Web Services- Watch now

Forrester Ranks Sun a Tier 1 Enterprise Role Management Vendor

Stephanie Brannan — Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:42:19 -0500

“Sun Microsystems is estimated to have the largest pure role management market share.”
Based on the following metrics:

Estimated total market share in 2008
Vendors most frequently seen in competitive situations
Number of customers in production
Largest number of users whose entitlements are managed

Source: Forrester, Market Overview, Enterprise Role Management, Andras Cser, 6 Feb 2009.

Read the full report

Identity Management, Bowling, and London- What more could you ask for?

Stephanie Brannan — Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:32:19 -0500

Last week Sun participated as a platinum sponsor in the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit. Thomson Reuters drew quite a crowd when they discussed their successful use of Sun OpenSSO. But the fun didn't stop there as Sun and Accenture co-hosted an after-hours event in the Kingpin Suite at the infamous Bloomsbury Lanes. Who knew Sun product managers were such great bowlers? Must have been their new retro bowling shirts!

Sun's Booth Bowling in the KinPin Suite Thomson Reuters Presentation

New customer podcast ready to play!

Stephanie Brannan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:02:41 -0500

Listen as Unum's Lynda Fleury and Sun's Craig McDonald discuss the company's provisioning success with Identity Manager.

Read the full story

New Customer Success Story Available!

Stephanie Brannan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:50:40 -0500

Education: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Sun identity management provides leading scientific institution with secure access to information and resources.

Check out the full story

Join us for the very first OpenSSO Community Day!

sdnblog — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:33:49 -0600

Hosted by New York University and sponsored by Sun Microsystems, this is an opportunity for OpenSSO contributors, deployers and users to come together in an informal 'unconference' setting.

Being an unconference, the only rigid item on the agenda is to decide at 9am on the sessions for the rest of the day. You can show up and talk about any OpenSSO-related topic you like. Maybe you have an interesting deployment, a new extension or a nagging question - sessions can be discussions as much as presentations. Now, that doesn't mean that there need be zero preparation - if you have a session in mind, go to the wiki and add it there, so folks can get an idea of the likely content ahead of time. We've already posted a few ideas here.

All are welcome, attendance is free, and continental breakfast plus lunch will be provided. We'll likely adjourn to a nearby bar at the end of the day to continue the conversation :-)

We're using meetup.com to manage the registration process - just go to http://www.meetup.com/opensso/calendar/9588430/ , join the OpenSSO group and RSVP. And don't delay - 5 of the 40 places are already gone!

Analyst Video Series Part 3: Identity Bus with Kuppinger Cole analyst, Felix Gaehtgens

sdnblog — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:50:35 -0600

We finish our series with Kuppinger Cole's Felix Gaehtgens as he offers varying industry perspectives on the identity bus and Sun's Security Token Service.
Watch the video.

Analyst Video Series Part 2: Role Management with The 451 Group's Steve Coplan

sdnblog — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:47:50 -0600

The 451 Group analyst, Steve Coplan, talks with Sun's Sachin Nayyar about the Why, the What and the Where of role management.

Watch now.

Sun Microsystems To Provide Access and Identity Management (IAM) Solutions to more than 400,000 Marines

sdnblog — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:08:01 -0600

Check out On the Record for more details.

Customer Video with Argonne National Labs

sdnblog — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:52:14 -0600

Argonne National Labs' David Salbego talks about his experience and business benefits resulting from Sun solutions including access management and directory services.

Watch the Video.

Customer Video with Safeway

sdnblog — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:43:58 -0600

Safeway's Paul Rarey sat down with our very own John Barco recently to discuss the benefits they've seen from Sun identity management. Check it out!

Role Management Webinar Replay Available

sdnblog — Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:36:15 -0600

In case you missed it, check out automating the access certification challenge with Sun's solution for identity compliance.

Access the webinar now.

Gartner says we're leaders, again!

Sarah Richardson — Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:12:02 -0600

Sun has once again been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management.

More from the review...

Product: Sun OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager)

Sun is a leader in the WAM market, due to a combination of technical platform expertise, diverse and experienced partnerships in consulting and SI; a growing customer base; and consistent customer service. OpenSSO Enterprise is a full-featured product, with identity federation, SOA capabilities and built-in Web services security functions.

Strengths

Due to technical platform expertise, diverse and experienced partnerships in consulting and SI, a growing customer base, and consistent customer service, Sun is a leader in the WAM market.
OpenSSO Enterprise is a full-featured product, with built-in identity federation, SOA capabilities and Web services security functions.
Sun plays a leadership role in open-source WAM through the OpenSSO project, which gives the company a potential customer base and the benefit of the efforts of the community that has developed around OpenSSO. When this option is included, Sun has the widest variety of pricing options for a WAM offering, and also has appealing standard pricing.
Sun has focused on ancillary functionality to ease deployment, including federation partner offerings ("fedlets"), as well as standard, out-of-the-box task-based workflows.
Sun's Partner Advantage Program remains a model for covering consulting, system integration, VAR and independent software vendor (ISV) needs for IAM customers.
OpenSSO Enterprise now includes Microsoft SharePoint support and a fully functional security token service.

Caution

Sun has a large customer base for OpenSSO Enterprise; however, growth in the customer base was relatively flat in 2007.

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Check Out the Updated Identity Management ROI Calculator

Sarah Richardson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:19:42 -0600

"See Your Savings! Use our handy ROI calculator to see how much Sun can slash costs associated with provisioning, auditing, role management, and compliance."

The Game was on at Sun's booth at the Gartner IAM Conference Nov. 10-12!

Criss McCauley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:34:48 -0600

Sun attended the Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) conference November 10-12 in Orlando, Florida, where guests had the chance to flaunt their gaming skills and their identity management know-how by playing the Identity Hero game at the booth! The top three scores from the event went to Victor Gonzales, Michael Wilcox and Michael Sloan. Each of these winners walked away with a highly coveted Identity Hero prize pack from Sun!

Visitors of Sun's booth not only had the chance to virtually slay auditors while taming the Sarbox monster, but they also got the opportunity to chat with Sun's identity experts about their most challenging identity management issues, including identity compliance, user provisioning, role management, directory services, Web access management, and federation.
Two Sun customers spoke at the event. Verizon talked about their unique Web access management, and Thrivent Financial focused on their role management challenges and how Sun's identity management solutions met those needs.

Thank you to all that visited Sun at Gartner IAM!

Federated Single Sign-On for Google Apps in OpenSSO

Sarah Richardson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:21:06 -0600

Federating single sign-on with OpenSSO is fast, straightforward, and intuitive. This article describes the process for highly popular Google Apps. Read more.

New Identity 8.0 Overview and Architecture Web-Based Course

Sarah Richardson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:08:34 -0500

The Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Product Overview and Architecture course provides an overview of Identity Management and the Sun Identity Manager 8.0 product. It presents the features available in the product, the product architecture, as well as the features that have become available in the latest release of the product. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe the components within Sun Identity Manager and be familiar with the Identity Manager architecture. Through detailed demonstrations, you will also understand how to use various features of the product including how to manage roles, view and configure in line attributes, use the Data Exporter function and configure service tags. Learn more