Sun Microsystems has completed its identity management portfolio update with the launch of new fine-grained entitlement enforcement engine, as part of OpenSSO Express 9, for both enterprise and extranet deployments and a directory proxy server, as part of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 2.2, for horizontal and on-demand scaling.
The company said that the new fine-grained entitlement enforcement engine allows customers to externalise authorisation for any resource such as web application, custom application, web service or client application. With the new feature, OpenSSO Express 9 provides access management, federation, secure web services, multi-factor authentication and fine-grained entitlement enforcement in a single product.
In addition, OpenSSO Express 9 provides customers with a single end-point to handle policy for all resources, which helps to simplify the audit and certification of business applications through a central audit log for all access activity such as internal applications, partner applications, cloud applications and web services.
According to Sun Microsystems, the new directory proxy server can be used to extend Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition to scale a customer’s infrastructure horizontally, based on demand. It also helps customers to meet variable demand events, such as adding additional capacity during the holiday season, or distribute load based on regional demand to accommodate increases in authentication.
In addition, the new and improved installer is expected to provide user experience improvements that can install, configure and deploy either a core directory server or directory proxy in six clicks or less.
Daniel Raskin, chief identity strategist at Sun, said: “With the release of Sun’s fine-grained entitlement enforcement engine and next-generation directory proxy server, Sun has completed its 2009 portfolio update and has added a high-scaling, standards-based entitlement enforcement solution and a next generation proxy server to our arsenal of capabilities.
“Innovative functionality such as granular security controls combined with the ability to quickly augment infrastructure performance keeps Sun well-positioned as a leading provider of large-scale identity management solutions.”
