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
SAN DIEGO (Business Wire EON) June 23, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA), today announced the immediate
availability of Sun(TM) 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(TM)
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,” said Mark
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:
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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.
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Comprehensive Attestation: Integrate with Sun Role Manager to
create an end-to-end solution for certifying access and automatically
remediating exceptions.
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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(TM) 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/consulting
_partners.jsp and http://www.sun.com/service/identity/
respectively. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted
into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if
one exists.)
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 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
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.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Identity Manager, Sun Role
Manager, Sun Java Identity Management Suite, Sun Java System Access
Manager, Sun Java System Federation Manager and Sun Java System
Directory Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
countries.
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