The Roles Discovery Project

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.

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.

Sun Role Manager 5.0 Released!

Check out the latest release of Sun Role Manager at:

www.sun.com/rolemanager

Product features include:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Role certification

• Improves alignment between IT and business organizations

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Access certification

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

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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

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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

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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%

Quick wins in identity management - Network World

Quick wins in identity management - Network World.

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. Government Success Stories: Government of Norway Sun implements Single Sign-On (SSO), helping the government of Norway ensure secure login to portal access to all government services. Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) BIPAC simplifies log-in to attract more customers.

ConnectID: A 4-corner model for risk

ConnectID: A 4-corner model for risk.

ConnectID: Identity-based Access Control Policy

ConnectID: Identity-based Access Control Policy.

IdentityBlog - Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet's Missing Identity Layer

IdentityBlog - Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet's Missing Identity Layer.

Sun Microsystems - Canada - Identity User Summit

I will be attending the Identity User Summit in Toronto Canada on May 12-13, see details below:

Sun Microsystems - Canada - Identity User Summit.

Compete to win $50 in Identity Hero merchandise by being this month's winning team!

Compete to win $50 in Identity Hero merchandise by being this month's winning team!.