The Roles Discovery Project: identity mgmt

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11/13/2009

Sun Microsystems - Webinar: Identity Management for Healthcare

Join this free Webinar to learn how Sun's identity management solutions can help your organization to:

Automate management of digital identities for other providers, patients, physicians, clinicians, and payors
Provide single sign-on (SSO) and secure federated access to privacy-regulated healthcare information while adhering to strict mandates
Enable delegated, self-service password management
Comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), internal security policies, and corporate governance policies with complete auditing and reporting capabilities

Sun identity management solutions make it easier for healthcare organizations to manage and share digital information.

Sun Microsystems - Webinar: Identity Management for Healthcare.

Nov 13, 2009 11:37:19 AM | identity mgmt

10/16/2009

BTQ Podcast - Real World Role Management

Check out the podcast by Matt Modica from ESI and Nick Crown, PLM for Sun Role Manager & Identity Manager on here.

The discussion is centered around the Identity & Access Mgmt. project undertaken by ESI, their architecture, challenges faced and lessons learned.

Oct 16, 2009 11:02:32 AM | audit/compliance, identity mgmt, rbac, role admin, role engineering, role manager

10/08/2009

Sun Role Manager 5.0 Released!

Check out the latest release of Sun Role Manager at:

www.sun.com/rolemanager

Product features include:

360-degree view of assigned access

Goes beyond “who has access to what” to reveal what was done with the access, including policy violations and potential violations

Provides information to make intelligent decisions concerning user access

Closed-loop remediation

Provides an automated, end-to-end solution for reviewing and revoking access
Automatically verifies remediation and sends alerts if remediation does not take place

Helps control cost of compliance by automating processes
Reduces risk of policy violations and compliance failures

Rule lifecycle management

Applies role lifecycle management technology to audit and role assignment rules
Proactively determines impact of rule changes on access assignment processes
Provides API for remotely executing rule assignment and SoD rules

Improves audit effectiveness by capturing rules history
Provides information for decision making
Simplifies integration with systems that utilize Role Manager as authoritative source for roles

Role engineering

Conducts role mining based on organization, user, and entitlement attributes
Performs both top-down and bottom-up role mining
Uses rule discovery to correlate rules between approved roles and attributes for use in role assignment

Improves alignment between IT and business organizations by mapping business roles to underlying entitlements
Reduces the cost of defining roles by automating manual processes

Role maintenance

Provides role approvals upon detection of entitlement updates
Performs impact analysis before changes
Allows for the definition of temporary roles
Enables simple changes in access based on changes in job responsibilities

Improves organizational flexibility by making it fast and easy to change access based on business needs

Role certification

Improves alignment between IT and business organizations

Access certification

Reduces costs by automating existing manual controls
Enhances audit effectiveness by enforcing concept of least privilege

Policy enforcement

Enables enterprise-level monitoring of access for conflicts in SoD and security policy
Supports inter- and intra- application policy enforcement
Provides complete lifecycle management of a policy violation

Reduces business risk associated with failed access controls
Enhances audit effectiveness by enforcing security policies related to SoD and least privilege
Reduces costs by automating existing manual processes for enforcing security policies

Compliance dashboard

Delivers an enterprise view of certification status
Provides an enterprise view of policy exceptions
tracks policy exceptions by type and business unit
Provides historical trending analysis

Improves compliance by providing an easily accessible view of activities

Data collection based on extract, transform, and load (ETL)

Enables integration with any resourceful
Eliminates the need to write connectors to applications

Ensures ability to access entitlement data
Increases efficiency and cuts costs by reducing time to load data by 70%

Oct 8, 2009 12:43:56 PM | compliance manager, identity mgmt, rbac, role engineering, role manager, role standards, siem/log mgmt

08/13/2009

Quick wins in identity management - Network World

Quick wins in identity management - Network World.

Aug 13, 2009 7:19:26 PM | identity mgmt

07/08/2009

Identity Management for Government Webinar - Sun Microsystems

Identity Management for Government webinar - July 15. Register here.

» Register here » Forward to a Colleague

Free Sun Software Webinar:
Identity Management for Government

Dear Julie Pastor,

Join us for this free webinar and learn how Sun's identity and access management solutions can help enable federal, state, and local government agencies to meet the need for high security and quality of service efficiently and cost-effectively through:

Secure control over information access by dynamic and diverse user populations
Single sign-on and identity federation for seamless operations across multiple IT environments
Automated provisioning and deprovisioning to reduce costs
Delegated and self-service account management to improve the user experience
Auditing and reporting to meet internal security and compliance requirements

Event:	Identity Management for Government
Date:	Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Time:	10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT / 19.00 CET
» Reserve Your Seat Today!

Even if you can't make the live event, sign up anyway so we can send you the replay information!

This presentation will last approximately 40 minutes, followed by a chance for you to ask your specific questions on how Sun Identity Management can help governments make public funds work harder to improve security and service to constituents.

Thank you for your interest in Sun Identity Management solutions.

If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message toSWI_Webinar_Inquiries@sun.com.

Thank you,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.


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