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Twelve Companies Earn Liberty Alliance Interoperable Logo at First Event to Test Identity Web Services Conformance
DENVER, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Liberty Alliance, the global consortium developing an open federated identity standard and business tools for implementing identity-based services, today announced products and services from 12 companies have earned the Liberty Alliance Interoperable mark in the latest Liberty-sponsored conformance test -- the first event to test against the Liberty Identity Web Services specification ID-WSF 1.0. The Liberty Alliance continues to be the only organization to offer more than simple specification interoperability testing and officially validate Liberty Federation and Identity Web Services implementations in products and services.
Alcatel, Elios, IBM, NEC, Nokia, Novell, NTT, Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun Microsystems, Symlabs and Trustgenix have been awarded the "Liberty Alliance Interoperable" mark. Following a rigorous testing process, conformant products may display the Liberty Alliance's highest stamp of quality, which offers buying assurances to end customers that products are truly interoperable out- of-the-box, shortening deployment cycles, increasing productivity and saving costs.
"Participants are responding to market demand for validation of quality and assurance of true interoperability," said Roger Sullivan, vice-chair of the Liberty Alliance Conformance Expert Group. "The conformance program offers vendors and service providers the opportunity to respond to the customer mandate for products and services that have earned the 'Liberty Alliance Interoperable' mark."
The Liberty conformance program requires that each company successfully complete tests against scripts and scenarios prepared by the Liberty Alliance Conformance Expert Group and published on the Liberty Alliance website. As part of the testing, companies must demonstrate interoperability with at least two other randomly selected participants. The program requires repeated operation of the Liberty specification's core features in many combinations and sequences and in different roles and contexts common to real-world deployments. The federation testing reviewed federation establishment and termination, single sign-on, opaque name registration, affiliation, identity proxying and anonymous login. The identity web services testing reviewed authentication, service registration and update, service lookup, service invocation and interaction.
"Liberty is pleased with the rapid adoption of its Identity Web Services specifications, and the response of both members and non-members who want to assure the market that their products will interoperate with these specifications out of the box," said Donal O'Shea, Executive Director of Liberty Alliance. "Companies who have earned the 'Liberty Alliance Interoperable' mark report that customers more easily create partnerships, in part because displaying the mark delivers instant market credibility and assures rapid deployment."
At the conformance test event held in Tokyo, Japan during the week of October 11-15, 2004, the following products and services demonstrated conformance with the Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework version 1.1 and 1.2 (ID-FF1.1 and ID-FF1.2), and the Liberty Alliance Web Services Framework version 1.0 (ID-WSF 1.0):
Alcatel -- The multi-protocol (HTTP, SIP, WAP, SMTP) Alcatel 5301 Proxy
Platform provides a complete execution, management and development
environment for Java proxy applications such as a service selection
proxy and various enrichment proxies (e.g. location, profiling, access
control proxy). It is also the foundation of the Alcatel 5311 WAP
Gateway. Its Liberty Enabled Proxy module, built on Liberty Alliance ID-
FF specifications, allows users to switch transparently from a secured
and trusted federated service to another one. To enable this, the proxy
platform acts as a LECP and performs the required Single Sign-On
interactions with identity providers and services providers.
Elios -- iCAP LEP(TM) 1.0 is a powerful and a high-performance Liberty-
Enabled Proxy. Based on the ICAP technology, iCAP LEP(TM) enhances HTTP
proxy or WAP gateway to support Liberty Single Sign-On and
Authentication features. By respecting the Liberty protocols (Liberty
ID-FF 1.1 and 1.2), iCAP LEP(TM) simplifies authentication process
between Liberty Identity Providers and Service Providers. With no
installation on the user devices, iCAP LEP(TM) is transparent for any
browser embedded in mobile phones, PDA or computers. Efficient, modular,
reliable and scalable, iCAP LEP(TM) can be easily integrated to
enterprises and carriers architecture. iCAP LEP(TM) is an ELIOS product
based on France Telecom patent and technology.
IBM -- The IBM Tivoli Access Manager software family helps enterprises
extend identity management to trusted partners. Supporting a rich set of
standards, IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager extends enterprise user
lifecycle management capabilities to trusted third-parties, simplifying
identity and access administration. IBM's software implements a multi-
protocol federation gateway with integrated management support for
Liberty ID FF 1.1/1.2, SAML and WS-Federation. The added federation
capability enables enterprises to quickly and securely integrate
identity-driven transactions with their middleware and portal platforms.
NEC -- NEC SECUREMASTER 4.1 is an identity and access management
platform that provides secure federated identity and access policy
solution for enterprises and customers through Liberty identity
federation 1.2 protocols as well as SAML 1.1, enhancing its previous
versions that have offered single sign-on capabilities for mission
critical business. SECUREMASTER enables developers and integrators to
easily and rapidly deploy web-based services that require secure
interactions of private information such as authentication and
authorization credentials among business partners on top of existing
applications, with a small amount of adaptation costs. It is scheduled
that SECUREMASTER 4.1 will be released at the end of March in 2005.
Nokia -- The Nokia Web Services framework for mobile devices enables
both identity and basic Web services, making the device a fully
integrated part of the end-to-end Web services world. It has been
designed to shield complexity from developers, making it suitable for a
wide spectrum of Web services applications for both consumers and
enterprises. The ease of application development, the identity-aware
functionality, the high degree of automation and the standards-based
approach make it a cost-efficient, user- and developer-friendly
framework. Nokia Web Services framework for mobile devices is designed
with the future in mind -- additional functionality can be added as a
plug-in.
Novell -- Novell is developing a Web authentication/authorization
product, code-named "Odyssey," that enables the secure federation of
identity data through both the Liberty Alliance specifications and the
SAML protocol. With this, customers will have one of the industry's
first viable options for establishing trusted relationships with
business partners based on open standards. It is scheduled to ship in
the first half of 2005.
NTT -- NTT's identity information sharing module is an identity
federation platform for subscribers of new broadband network services
provided by NTT group companies. This module has achieved certification
for ID-WSF 1.0, ID-FF 1.2 and ID-FF 1.1.
Oracle -- Oracle Secure Federation Services supports the full complement
of Liberty ID-FF 1.1 and Liberty ID-FF 1.2 protocols, allowing customers
to deploy Liberty Identity and Service Providers in a circle of trust.
Oracle Secure Federation Services is a component of Oracle Identity
Management -- an integrated, scalable and robust identity management
infrastructure.
Ping Identity -- The Liberty ID-FF 1.1 .Net Toolkit Release 1.1 is an
easy-to-use toolkit API for managing Identity Federation. It accepts all
inbound Liberty Alliance version 1.1 protocol traffic, parses and
validates it, and delegates high-level actions to customer-provided
plug-in points to perform services such as account federation, de-
federation and global logout. Additionally, the toolkit creates
conformant outbound traffic. It provides single sign-on functionality
that can be integrated into existing ASP.NET 1.x applications. This
enables these applications with Liberty ID-FF 1.1 capabilities --
allowing them to share user authentication credentials in a cross-domain
manner with applications in other security domains.
Sun Microsystems -- Sun Java(TM) System Access Manager 2004Q2 provides
open, standards-based authentication and policy-based authorization with
a single, unified framework for: securing the delivery of essential
identity and application information, improving the user experience
through single sign-on, and enabling trusted networks with partners,
suppliers and customers. Java(TM) System Access Manager 2004Q2 is one of
the first products to support federation standards, including both the
latest Liberty Alliance specifications for Identity Federation and
Identity Web Services as well as the SAML 1.1 specifications.
Symlabs -- Symlabs Liberty Identity Manager, SLIM R2.4, is certified
Liberty ID-FF 1.2 identity management server. Symlabs Liberty Identity
Manager is a high performance LDAP proxy and virtual directory designed
for carrier grade scalability. Symlabs Liberty Identity Manager's unique
virtual meta directory approach enables customers to deploy federated
identity services on existing databases and directories and to continue
hosting legacy applications on the same platform.
Trustgenix -- Trustgenix IdentityBridge(TM) is a full-featured
federation server that supports all popular federated identity
protocols, including Liberty and SAML. IdentityBridge has the broadest
Liberty Interoperable Certification profile, including ID-WSF 1.0, ID-FF
1.2, and ID-FF 1.1. IdentityBridge(TM) gives customers a wide choice of
cross-domain identity features such as provisioning, privilege
management, and single sign on in heterogeneous environments and/or for
web services applications. Trustgenix's turnkey solution complements
and is non-disruptive to existing Identity / Access Management System
deployments and homegrown single sign-on systems. It can be deployed in
days and is ideal for seamless extranets, e-Government / e-
Authentication, and bridging intranet identity islands.
Liberty Alliance maintains a list of all products and services that have passed the conformance testing procedures and can bear the Liberty Alliance Interoperable logo. Information is available at: http://www.projectliberty.org/conformance.
About the Liberty Alliance Conformance Program
The conformance program managed by the Liberty Alliance validates implementations of the Liberty Alliance standards for federated network identity. The program helps vendors, integrators and implementers ensure interoperability between Liberty-enabled solutions. Liberty Alliance will be offering additional conformance events, expanding to include products and services implementing Liberty Alliance's Identity Web Services Framework. Interested parties should contact Liberty Alliance at info@projectliberty.org for logistics and registration information. The program is open to both members and non-members.
About the Liberty Alliance Project
The Liberty Alliance Project (http://www.projectliberty.org/) is an alliance of more than 150 companies, non-profit and government organizations from around the globe. The consortium is committed to developing an open standard for federated network identity that supports all current and emerging network devices. Federated identity offers businesses, governments, employees and consumers a more convenient and secure way to control identity information in today's digital economy, and is a key component in driving the use of e- commerce, personalized data services, as well as web-based services. Membership is open to all commercial and non-commercial organizations.
If you are interested in seeing the full list of Liberty Alliance members or are interested in becoming a member, please visit us at http://www.projectliberty.org/.
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Liberty Alliance
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Web site: http://www.projectliberty.org/
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