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Managing Access to In-house and SaaS Applications

This article, “Federating to Google Apps with OpenSSO,” explains how to simultaneously control access to in-house applications and those hosted by the Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Google by using OpenSSO. SaaS applications are also sometimes referred to as on-demand software, web-based software, or hosted software. In a SaaS based delivery model, a commercial vendor develops the software, hosts its operations, provides Internet-based access, and supports applications for its end users and customers.

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Common SAML Standard Makes It All Possible

A new white paper, jointly published by Microsoft and Sun, addresses the issue of interoperability. The paper, “Microsoft ‘Geneva’ Server and Sun OpenSSO,” discusses the common support of both companies for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) federation standard as a basis for interoperability and ease of collaboration.

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Sun Identity Source Offers an Approach

The white paper “Guide to Open Source Identity Management” explores the advantages of open-source identity software and provides a look at Sun Identity Source, the open-source identity initiative, which currently includes OpenSSO and OpenDS.

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Fedlet Project Wins Best Innovation Award At EIC 2009

Analyst firm Kuppinger Cole decreed the OpenSSO initiative and its project OpenSSO Fedlet as Best Innovation, recognizing that it “has provided a lean solution for the Identity Federation.” Awarded its trophy during the European Identity Conference (EIC) 2009 held earlier this month, OpenSSO was one of six winners in a half dozen categories that earned praise.

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Short News Items of Interest for SysAdmins

• Logical Domains (LDoms) Mobility
• ZFS Snapshots How-to Guide
• Creating an OpenSSO User Data Store Using Sun Directory Server
• Solaris Cluster 3.2, VirtualBox 2.2, 2-Node Cluster, and a Laptop
• Resources for Administering OpenSolaris
• Tour the James Bond Villain Data Center
• Performance, Scaling of Intel Xeon 5500 Platforms for DNS Operations
• Solaris Network Tuning for WebSphere Application Environment
• A Secret of SysAdmins: Transfer Keys to All Systems

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Includes Identity Manager, OpenSSO, Directory Server, and Role Manager

This announcement introduces individual component product subscription pricing for Sun Identity Manager, Sun OpenSSO Enterprise, Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition and Sun Role Manager. Sales and partners will now have the option to offer their customers either a perpetual license or subscription when selling identity component products.

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Accelerate Projects Without Overhead of Large Hardware Environments

Sun’s GlassFish Portfolio, OpenSSO, and OpenDS software are now available via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to help easily build and secure cloud applications and enable users to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use. The availability of Sun’s open source software infrastructure on Amazon EC2 is the first phase of a multi-phased program to offer full support and indemnification for Sun’s portfolio of open source software on a variety of cloud platforms, including the Sun Cloud.

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Get Out-of-the-box Federation Support for Google’s SAAS Solution

Sun OpenSSO Express release provides organizations using Google Apps Premier Edition a rapid, federated single sign-on (SSO), enabling employees to use their enterprise logins to access Google Apps for increased security, accelerated user adoption, and improved administration benefits. Sun also is offering a starter kit for Google Apps, which is a simple step-by-step guide along with teaching tools.

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Part 1: Setting Up X.509 Client Authentication

“Using OpenSSO To Protect Java EE Applications, Part 1: Setting Up X.509 Client Authentication” by Bruno Bonfils and Rick Palkovic is the first part of a two-part tutorial that explains how to use OpenSSO to protect a Java EE application. The example it illustrates grants access — which requires authentication by a certificate — to part of an application. The authors assume that readers will already have deployed OpenSSO on GlassFish, JBoss or another application server. The choice of application server makes a difference, as described later in this article.

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Series Examines SSO and Policy Protection, Cross-Domain SSO

Firefox, combined with the Live HTTP Headers and HackBar add-ons, is a powerful troubleshooting tool, writes Jim Faut in a three-part article co-authored with Rick Palkovic that covers “Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons: Part 1, Introduction; Part 2, Single Sign-On and Policy Protection; and Part 3, Cross-Domain Single Sign-On.”

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