The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
10/02/2008
Sun Microsystems announced an open-source, enterprise-scale access management, federation and secure identity management offering.
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Sun Microsystems announced Sun OpenSSO Enterprise software, an open, high-performance and unified solution for access management, federation and secure Web services capabilities to address the core single sign-on (SSO) problems that organizations face today.
OpenSSO Enterprise was built in collaboration with OpenSSO, the world's largest open source, identity management project. With the addition of OpenSSO Enterprise, Sun's comprehensive identity portfolio provides easy-to-use, flexible and scalable solutions that streamline and simplify the process of managing user identities across a variety of applications.
OpenSSO Enterprise is an integrated open source, access and federation management offering that enables customers to deploy commercial or open source versions of OpenSSO Enterprise, known by OpenSSO community members as Express builds, and provides full support and indemnification.
Benefits cited include an active open source community, support and service from Sun, direct access to Sun engineering and expertise, direct access to OpenSSO source code, and easy access to the latest product innovations.
"Sun's identity management portfolio includes the most open, complete and secure end-to-end solution that helps customers protect their internal and external systems and scale their business in a way that hasn't been done before," said Mark Herring, vice president of marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. "Sun's updated identity portfolio, including the new OpenSSO Enterprise, is designed to solve basic and complex SSO and authorization issues as well as streamline the management of end users and resources, so organizations can focus on growth."
OpenSSO Enterprise, formerly known as Sun Java System Access Manager and Sun Java System Federation Manager, offers a simplified and more intuitive end-user experience. As a result, customers who purchase or upgrade to OpenSSO Enterprise will receive a product that is quick-and-easy to deploy.
OpenSSO Enterprise features embedded directory capabilities, enabling customers to deploy OpenSSO Enterprise in minutes without ever having to configure or deploy a standalone directory. In addition to the embedded directory, the new centralized server configuration and centralized agent configuration help reduce the time and cost associated with deploying and maintaining a complex Web access management solution.
Sun OpenSSO Enterprise also offers a multi-protocol federation hub as well as a lightweight, high-speed federation package called a Fedlet, which provides a new way for service providers to federate with an identity provider in minutes without the need for a standalone federation product or infrastructure. Partner support is included under the identity providers license, so service providers do not have to buy an additional federation license - a hidden cost in many other products.
OpenSSO Enterprise also provides a standardized, repeatable way to secure Web services within an organization, Sun said. No plug-ins are necessary and developers and integrators can leverage out-of-box tooling by the NetBeans IDE and the GlassFish application server. Sun OpenSSO Enterprise also includes a Security Token Service (STS) that centralizes the process of issuing, validating and translating Web service tokens. Moreover, Sun's STS - unlike others - can be deployed standalone to support third-party solutions.
In the past six months, Sun said it has completely refreshed its identity management portfolio, offering a complete identity management solution that provides open access, open source and open standards. Sun supports major protocols, including SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Trust, WS-Security, WS-Policy, Liberty ID-FF and WS-I BSP.
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