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Sun Microsystems Inc: Sun Microsystems Unveils Next-Generation
Identity Manager Software;Strengthens Solution for Access Compliance;
Updates to Bring New Efficiencies to User Provisioning, Identity
Auditing and Access Certification Processes
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:23062008
SAN DIEGO, CA BURTON CATALYST CONFERENCE -- Sun Microsystems Inc.
(Nasdaq: JAVA), today announced the immediate availability of Sun
Identity Manager 8.0, the latest version of Sun's flagship provisioning
software. To download the new product, please visit:
http://www.sun.com/software/products/identity_mgr/get.jsp
With numerous product enhancements and new functionality, such as data
export and attestation capabilities, Sun Identity Manager 8.0 is the
first user provisioning software to truly provide role-based user
provisioning, enabling customers to use business roles for both
identity lifecycle management and identity auditing across enterprise
and extranet environments.
The solution has deep integration with Sun Role Manager to help
enterprises with their attestation and identity audit needs. In
addition, major updates in operational reporting allow customers to
analyze their entitlement data, which can help them gain better control
of their provisioning and auditing processes, make compliance a
sustainable part of their business and reduce costs.
"Addressing security and compliance continues to be a significant
expenditure for organizations," said Mark Herring, vice president of
marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. "By more closely
integrating provisioning and role management, we're offering companies
increased levels of automation. Our solutions help solve everyday
identity problems that keep customers awake at night: on-boarding and
off-boarding of workers, compliance with internal audit policies and
costs associated with access control processes."
"The enhancements in Sun's latest release of Identity Manager will help
make our quarterly audits much easier. Now instead of trying to make
sense of technical entitlement jargon, we can apply business
terminology such as job titles and functions to grant and review user
access privileges," saidMark Satterfield, senior vice president,
Enterprise Planning & Architecture, Equifax.
With Sun Identity Manager 8.0, customers have new options to expand
their services via the Internet and address government regulations
(such as SOX, HIPPA, and Basel II) in a consistent, automated and
cost-effective way, while also increasing productivity and reducing
security risks. New features of Sun Identity Manager 8.0 include:
* Data Export: Export identity data and events to external data
warehouses and business intelligence tools for further analysis.
Benefits include: Robust reporting capabilities and entitlement
management.
* Comprehensive Attestation: Integrate with Sun Role Manager to create
an end-to-end solution for certifying access and automatically
remediating exceptions.
* Better Integration of Business Roles: Integrate with Sun Role Manager
to enable importing of predefined business roles and automate
provisioning and auditing at the business role level.
A key component of Sun's solution for access compliance, Sun Identity
Manager 8.0 is available as a stand-alone product or with the Sun Java
Identity Management Suite, which includes Sun Role Manager, Sun Java
System Access Manager, Sun Java System Federation Manager, and Sun Java
System Directory Server. Pricing information is available under a
subscription or license basis.
Sun Offers Solutions for Access Compliance
With new enhancements to Sun Identity Manager and Sun Role Manager, Sun
is one of the first vendors to offer a comprehensive solution for
enterprise environments. Sun's access compliance offering will help
companies streamline their existing access control processes, enhance
audit effectiveness and lower compliance-related costs. Sun's complete
role-enabled identity suite provides customers with enhanced user
provisioning capabilities; the most complete attestation engine to
deliver "closed-loop" compliance, including the ability to proactively
review and correct improperly assigned access; and the best access
compliance reporting solution, to help keep organizations on track.
Sun's Partner Network & Professional and Managed Services
Sun and its extensive system integrator network offer an extended suite
of identity management consulting and remote operations management
services to help customers quickly and successfully implement and
manage Sun's identity portfolio.
From the initial assessment and architecture of new solutions through
ongoing management and monitoring of identity management solutions, Sun
experts and partners use proven methodologies and intellectual property
to dramatically reduce deployment times and ensure predictable results.
For more information on Sun's identity management partners and Sun's
identity management services, please visit:
http://www.sun.com/software/products/identity/partners/consult
ing_partners.jsp and http://www.sun.com/service/identity/ respectively.
Sun technology manages billions of user identities worldwide for more
than 5,000 organizations, including Fortune 100 companies, that rely on
Sun's identity management portfolio for provisioning and secure access,
ongoing compliance and federation. Sun has been positioned in the
leaders quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning,
2H07(1) and Web Access Management, 2H07(2). Sun's identity management
portfolio is designed to streamline and simplify the process of
managing user identities across a variety of applications.
For information on Sun's identity management portfolio, please visit:
www.sun.com/identity.
1. Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 2H07" by Earl
Perkins and Roberta J. Witty, August 23, 2007 2. Gartner, Inc., "Magic
Quadrant for Web Access Management, 2H07" by Ray Wagner and Earl
Perkins, October 29, 2007
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted August 2007 and October 2007 by
Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a
graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time
period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure
against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner
does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic
Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is
intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific
guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied,
with respect to this research, including any warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can
be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
CONTACT: Jacki Decoster, Sun Microsystems, Inc
Tel: +1 415 294 4482 Contact via Email
WWW: http://www.sun.com
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