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The exponential growth of Internet users has created an opportunity for businesses and public sector organisations to offer online services. But with this opportunity comes new threats, including the rise of e-crimes like identity fraud and data theft.
Global companies may have lost more than US$1 trillion worth of intellectual property last year owing to data theft, according to new research from McAfee presented last month at the World Economic Forum.
What can you do to protect your business?
In this climate, identity management (IDM) has become a staple requirement for any organisation. Sun’s portfolio of identity management solutions offer a range of technologies to suit all business and government needs.
In Australia, the Gershon Report highlights the need for the government to improve its online service provision for citizens. This will increase the demand for IDM solutions within government to ensure it is able to provide online services securely.
Benefits of identity management
Late last year, Sun’s Role Manager and Compliance Manager were integrated into Sun’s IDM suite of products to offer the complete management of the lifecycle of an identity. This includes the creation, management and ultimate termination when required.
During the lifetime of the identity, it is imperative to use IDM solutions to understand what information your customers and employees are accessing, when they are accessing it and why.
For example, software such as Sun’s Role Manager can analyse user behaviour to build up rules and exceptions for role profiles within an organisation. The ability to regulate role-based access control rather than manage individual identities offers a number of benefits including:
- More streamlined operations
- Straight-forward approach to compliance
- Cost savings through reduced systems management
Identity management in government
All levels of government face unprecedented challenges today when it comes to security. The ongoing threat of terrorism coupled with the rise of the Internet has made the security of sensitive information and operations a greater priority than ever.
Like many organisations in both the public and private sector, government entities are now required to comply with security and privacy related regulations to meet stringent audit requirements
Sun’s identity management for government offering enables 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
- Self-service account management to improve user experience
- Auditing and reporting to meet internal security and compliance requirements
The Sun identity management suite
The private sector is just as threatened by the increase in potential threats as the public sector and needs a solution that can protect an enterprise just as securely as any government agency.
Sun’s flexible identity management solutions enable enterprises to maintain security, mitigate risk, reduce costs and build secure enterprises by streamlining and simplifying the process of managing user identities across a variety of applications:
- Identity Manager - Comprehensive user provisioning and identity auditing for efficiently and securely managing identity profiles and permissions across the enterprise and beyond
- Role Manager - Role-based compliance solution that conducts role mining to analyze user access patterns and define roles for managing access to enterprise resources
- OpenSSO Enterprise - Enables secure Web access management, establishes a fast track to federation and extends security to Web Services
- Directory Server Enterprise Edition - A secure, highly available, scalable, and easy-to-manage directory infrastructure that effectively manages identities in growing and dynamic environments
- Identity Compliance Manager - The complete automated solution for enterprise-wide access certification
Sun solutions have been developed on open standards, which means that Sun can integrate its services with existing identity management deployments freeing businesses from vendor lock-in.
Sun identity management provides the broadest support in the industry for federated identity management and Web services among your user communities.
For more information, download Sun’s buyer's guide for identity management.
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