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Includes Best Practices, Recommended Applications

The Sun white paper “Identity and Access Management: Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance” explores the requirements that healthcare organizations and vendors face as they become more reliant on digital information technology and the need to comply with increasing regulatory requirements, which presents a range of challenges. Author Mark Dixon includes best practices for implementing identity management systems that help ensure compliance, and shows how Sun’s pragmatic approach to identity management simplifies the technology environment.

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Sun CIS Officer Leslie Lambert Shares Her Expertise

Corporate Information Security (CIS) officers currently face the daunting task of making their networks both accessible to those requiring access and inaccessible to those with no business to conduct. Sun CIS Officer Leslie Lambert offers some suggestions on how to find the right balance between access and denial.

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Maintains Over 40 Million Users, a Million Logins per Day at a Peak of 4,000 Logins per Minute

What keeps Damodaram Bashyam, director of IT Verizon Wireless, up at night? Security and how to protect his company and its customers. In his presentation given at Gartner’s Identity & Access Management Conference in Orlando this past fall, Bashyam presents how Verizon simplified their identity management solution to improve security and the customer experience online by implementing OpenSSO Enterprise with Sun Access Manager 7.0 and Sun Federation Manager 6.2.

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Latest Details Outline Release Schedule

The OpenSSO team has released a roadmap toward its next enterprise commercial release of the identity management software. Beginning this coming April with the anticipated Express 7 release, all the way through to the commercial release of OpenSSO Enterprise 8.1 expected in March of 2010, the roadmap offers details on upcoming features and progress.

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Sun’s OpenSSO experts Daniel Raskin, senior product line manager, and Jamie Nelson, the director of engineering, will be discussing the current release of OpenSSO and how it pushes access management, federation, and secure Web services capabilities to a new level.

Sun OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager and Sun Federation Manager) is Sun’s open-sourced single solution for Web access management, federation, and Web services security.

Event:  Webinar: Access Management, Federation, and Secure Web Services with OpenSSO Enterprise

Date:  Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Time:  10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST