With the release of Enterprise Single Sign On Manager (E-SSO-M), Tools4ever adds another valuable tool to its suite of Identity and Access Management solutions. This flexible, building block based solution allows for a 100% match with an organization’s SSO requirements. The unique architecture of the product allows for network and internet applications to be easily accommodated.

With its guaranteed 100% SSO coverage of the application landscape, including both network and internet applications, Enterprise SSO Manager sets a new standard for Single Sign On products.
Speaking about the new product release, Dean Wiech, President of Tools4ever Inc, commented, “The release of our Enterprise SSO Manager is the next evolution in the development of our product suite. It extends the capabilities of our existing Password Synchronization and Self Service modules to allow our clients a new level of security, usability and compliance.”

Courion Corporation has released Access Assurance Suite solution version 8.0. As The solution combines comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) with sensitive data management, user activity monitoring, automated remediation, and advanced analytics to help enterprises manage access risk in their organizations.

With this release, Courion introduces Sensitive Data Manager and User Activity Manager, two new products that deliver vendor-agnostic integration with leading DLP and SIEM technologies and other user activity data sources. This enables organizations to map user access information against sensitive data requirements and user activity, providing a better, holistic view of user behavior and helping to improve compliance with a broader range of regulations. This process of effectively combining detective and preventive controls in one system significantly reduces costs, increases security management and improves data protection.

Version 8.0 helps enterprises integrate disparate islands of sensitive information from data loss prevention (DLP), security incident and event management (SIEM), and other sources so they can effectively manage and protect access to sensitive data, while putting individual user activity into context in order to take appropriate action. Automating the discovery, validation, remediation, and reporting of this data results in higher levels of compliance and security while engaging the business managers and lightening the load on IT staff.

The Google Apps Identity Connector has been updated with a couple of new features:

• Support for Identity Connector Framework version 1.1
• Group management: You can now manage user group subscriptions through the connector

This connector allows provisioning of Google Apps accounts using any IdM that supports the connector framework. This is currently limited to Oracle Waveset IdM - but OIM support is on the roadmap!
Please refer to the Google Apps wiki page for more information.

For a decade, the identity management architecture has consisted of an enterprise directory, a provisioning engine, a set of metadirectory connectors, and a web access management system. This architecture was well-suited to creating, managing, and using enterprise identities for full-time employees.

But several forces are changing this architecture. Requirements to let non-employees access enterprise resources have given rise to federation technology, which lets identities created elsewhere into the enterprise. And cheap consumer identity providers (traditionally webmail or social network operators, but increasingly born-on-the web identity services specialist firms) are offering low-assurance identities at a fraction of the cost of enterprise IDs - thus converting the identity landscape into a free market in which cheap, weak identities compete against expensive strong ones.

These shifts in the identity landscape will revolutionize the enterprise identity management architecture over the next three to five years. In this TeleBriefing, IdPS Service Director Gerry Gebel and IdPS Research Director Bob Blakley will discuss the coming changes in IdM architecture and discuss steps enterprises can take to future-proof their IdM roadmaps.

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, an advocate of Web 2.0, used Twitter early Thursday to announce his resignation. He was named CEO in 2006 as Sun faced a switch in strategic direction away from proprietary systems and toward open source code, including its valued Solaris 10 operating system.

Schwartz was the first CEO of a major company to use the blogging format to announce his positions and comment on issues in the industry. He advocated that blogs be given the same status as press releases with the Securities Exchange Commission. With a short ponytail and an academic look, Schwartz embodied Sun's attempt to change direction in 2006 and get astride the currents then moving through the computer industry. Sun already had a strong position in Java and operating system software with Solaris. He sought to expand it into Java middleware, such as application servers, as well as identity management and portal software. It was an approach that was gaining traction as the second major recession of the 21st century hit in 2008-2009. Sun had never fully recovered from the dotcom bust of 2001, and its revenue took a steep hit.

"Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it," he said in a tweet to his followers, reported the New York Times on its Web site at 1:12 a.m. Thursday. He added a bit of haiku: "Financial crisis, Stalled too many customers, CEO no more."