UnboundID Corp. today released a new version of its identity management platform that includes capabilities designed to enable the delivery of cloud services and mobile applications. The latest release of the UnboundID platform, which is the only identity management platform certified as VMware Ready, includes the ability to securely synchronize and integrate multiple identity data repositories in real-time to meet the demands of high-volume cloud and mobile services.

The UnboundID 3.0 Suite provides a dynamic identity layer that securely leverages a myriad of identity repositories within an organization to deliver unified, customer-centric applications. The latest version also delivers the key capabilities needed to support virtualized, cloud computing and large-scale mobile application environments, including:

• Identity Unification
• Security and Privacy
• Real-time Extensibility

Movirtu, the Cloud Phone(TM) company today announced the launch of ManyME(TM), a revolutionary new patent pending product for mobile service providers, allowing them to create new services for everyone with multiple SIMs and mobile devices who seeks a single identity under their own control. Movirtu is the leading pioneer in Mobile Identity Management (MIM) solutions for the wireless telecommunication market. Bringing its revolutionary identity manager capability to oversee subscribers identity across multiple devices, the company will debut ManyME(TM) at Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona on 14-17 February.

Movirtu's ManyME(TM) allows subscribers to use and manage, in real time, multiple phone numbers and accounts from a single authenticated mobile device with a single SIM card. After signing up to the service a subscriber can make and receive voice calls and messages on all their numbers either through the Identity Management App, or on more basic phones by prefixing calls with a code to dictate which account the call is to be made on. Most importantly for multi-national operators is the ability to offer the use of different numbers from each of their regional operations on a single mobile device and bill to a single home account. The big advantage to subscribers is that they do not need to purchase extra SIM cards or additional mobile handsets, and they have the convenience of all their ManyME(TM) numbers being active at the same time. In addition, ManyME(TM) allows a single number to be active across multiple devices at the same time including mobile phones, smart phones and tablet computers such as iPads, making communication simpler and more streamlined.

For the operators, this enables them to extend loyalty beyond their traditional country barriers and reduce the cost of selling and distributing the SIM cards, making ManyME(TM) a truly global product.

Last year I made following predictions for 2010. Even thought 2010 was tough year for many and most of the CIO and CISO were looking for cutting cost still security did get a good boost. It is warming up what will come in 2011 and 2012 will be much bigger for security.

1. Virus / Malware will hit Mobile (Realization: Yes)
2. Security as a Service (Realization: Yes)
3. End To End Encryption (Realization: Partly Yes)
4. Tested and Certified Software Will Have the Edge (Realization: Partly Yes)
5. Multi-factor Authentication becomes more popular (Realization: Yes)
6. Voice biometric for Password Reset and Getting new services activated (Realization: Yes & No)
7. Social Networking Threats on rise (Realization: No)
8. Digital Signatures will go Mobile (Realization: Yes)
9. Email Protection with DLP (Data Leakage Protection) (Realization: Not really)
10. Identity Management and Authentication and SSO will consolidate (Realization: Not really)
11. Rise of Scareware (Realization: Yes)
12. No Privacy (Realization: Yes)

One year after announcing its intentions to lead in the rapidly growing market for intelligent workload management, Novell has shipped more than twelve new products, signed over 4,500 new customers and inked landmark partnerships with leading companies including SAP AG, Verizon, VMware and Vodacom Business. New innovative products shipped include Novell® Identity Manager 4, Novell Cloud Manager, ZENworks® 11 and the SUSE® Appliance Toolkit - all important solutions that customers can use to realize intelligent workload management within their own enterprise organization. As a result, both business and IT professionals are better able to balance flexibility with IT control across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Novell's differentiated strategy to lead the intelligent workload management market is WorkloadIQ - a unique approach based on integrating identity and security into every piece of the IT infrastructure. Leveraging its historic strength in IT infrastructure and identity management, Novell has brought new levels of security to workload management, by providing a way to securely build, manage and measure workloads across the entire IT infrastructure. While other companies are only beginning to develop new products for the intelligent workload management market, only Novell currently offers an approach that delivers single, point solutions that integrate easily with existing IT investments or work together to create a seamless solution set.

Enterprise software giant Oracle has announced a new identity management suite that incorporates some of the technology from its recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems in the service of application security. Oracle Identity Management 11g consists of as many as nine different components that perform such tasks as identity management, access management, single sign-on capability, fraud prevention and administrator system management control. The suite works with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the company's application infrastructure foundation product. Identity Management 11g has been developed in a service oriented architecture (SOA) design that provides developers with shared services for deploying various security features that simplify application security.

Among the new features in the identity management suite is the capability to cut off a user's access to an application if suspicious activity is detected. If an employee or group of employees is given access to a particular application, an administrator can monitor the session to see who's connected to it. If unusual activity is detected, such as a user moving a number of large files off the network, the administrator can terminate the session.

Another new feature, called Adaptive Access Manager, creates dynamic passcodes. If a user is attempting to access an application, the system will send that person a passcode via instant message, e-mail or a cellphone text message to gain access. This fraud prevention feature adds an extra layer of security in case a hacker has gained access to a network using someone else's identity. The Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Management Pack also offers advanced monitoring, diagnostics and performance management for all identity management components. The suite incorporates technology from Sun Microsystems, which Oracle acquired in January. They include Oracle Identity Analytics, for monitoring compliance and governance issues, and a single sign-on Secure Token Service for identity propagation.