Short Items of Interest on Security
Links to a Variety Resources on the Current Roadmap
The Jan. 27 Oracle presentation on its product strategy for integrating Sun hardware and software produced a lot of information on a variety of solutions and technologies. In this article, readers will find links and references from many different sources to help find material on their valued interests.
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.
Reduces Errors, Administrative Tasks; Delivers Scalability 
The Swiss companies Bâloise Insurance and Bâloise Bank SoBa operate jointly as a focused financial services provider, a combination of insurer and bank. Both entities are known for their integrated solutions in the areas of insurance, pension provision and asset formation for private clients and small and medium-sized businesses. The companies found an improved identity management solution from Sun.
Virtual Directory in Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 
Consolidating the growing stores of disparate identity data, where increasing numbers of users and applications are the rule rather than the exception, is one of several daunting tasks facing system administrators. The recent Sun white paper “Top Three Reasons to Deploy a Virtual Directory” explains why a virtual directory can help solve this task by providing a single consolidated view of disparate identity data to organizations dealing with diverse legacy resources.
Scalable Virtualized Platform Built to Serve Ten Million Users
A provider of web services security to the Western European market and the U.S., the French company Symeos has opted for an online identity management platform with open-source Sun solutions that have cut its development costs by 60%. The virtualized platform, called EGO, features Sun Blade servers using the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor that have cut power costs by 10% and energy consumption across the entire platform by around 20%.
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.
New Integration Helps Reduce TCO for Deploying Identity Management Solutions
Interoperability between the Sun Identity Management Suite and MySQL has been expanded providing a highly flexible, scalable and efficient approach for customers to manage their identity data infrastructure, whether they are using an LDAP directory or relational database. “Identity management over the years has been making the promise to consolidate, bind together and manage identity information, and Sun Microsystems has an extensive identity management offering that does exactly that,” said Felix Gaehtgens, Senior Analyst from Kuppinger-Cole.
Simple, Open and Proven Identity Solutions
Sun’s BluePrint online addresses the crucial issue of identity infrastructure and whether it can be deployed in a cost-effective, scalable way that will offer the best possible return on investment. This paper examines ways for enterprises to build and maintain the identity and access management infrastructure that can support growth for the short and long term.
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.
