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Learn How to Define Customized Polices and Improve User Experience

Learn how to configure the OpenSSO server and its Policy Agents to use IP/Resource/Environment-based authentication for a flexible mechanism that can define customized policies and improve user experience for access control. The three-part article series hosted on the Sun Developer Network comes from the minds of Qingwen Cheng, Mrudul Uchil and Rick Palkovic. The series explain the resource authentication architecture and information flow of OpenSSO components, and presents five use cases for enterprise/corporate SSO and federated SSO deployments.

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New Methodology Causes Debate on What Defines a Corporate Citizen

For the fourth year in row, Sun has been among the Top 100 Best Corporate Citizens on Corporate Responsibility Officer’s (CRO) annual list, which claims to be “the world’s best-known apples-to-apples comparison of Russell 1000 companies’ performance in environment, climate change, human rights, employee relations, philanthropy, financial and governance.” There has been some debate on the manner in which the CRO weighs particular categories in its methodology and also in the methodology itself, which changed during this year’s research. Sun’s Director of CSR Marcy Scott Lynn is one calling into question what a Corporate Citizen really means.

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