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	Enterprise Identity And Access Management Technical White Paper
		Identity management subsystems employ workflow in a way similar to provisioning subsystems to administer users on an individual, group, and organisational basis.
		To manage user access to system resources, it is first necessary to establish user identity and then, when the user attempts to access particular resources, to check his rights of access.
		Identity management is a highly dynamic area with latest developments extending its scope beyond the boundaries of an enterprise.
	radio.weblogs.com /0100367/stories/2002/05/11/enterpriseIdentityAndAccessManagement.html (2938 words)

	Identity management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Identity Management (IdM) is an integrated system of business processes, policies and technologies that enable organizations to facilitate and control their users' access to critical online applications and resources — while protecting confidential personal and business information from unauthorized users.
		It represents a category of interrelated solutions that are employed to administer user authentication, access rights, access restrictions, account profiles, passwords, and other attributes supportive of users' roles/profiles on one or more applications or systemss.
		Shibboleth - Identity standards targeted towards educational environments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity_management (160 words)

	Defining Enterprise Identity Management
		Identity management is a much used term that refers to a set of technologies intended to manage a basic issue: information about the identity of employees, contractors, customers, partners and vendors is distributed among too many systems, and is consequently difficult to manage.
		Identity management that reaches beyond a single organization requires that the IT infrastructure of one organization be compatible with the infrastructure of others.
		Identity management is an emerging class of technologies intended to streamline the management of user identity information both inside and outside an enterprise.
	idsynch.com /docs/identity-management-defined.html (2619 words)

	HIPAAtech: Network Identity Management
		Identity doesn't just define who a user is; it connects the "who" directly with the "what" – what a user's role in the organization is, what resources and information that user needs access to, and what he or she can and can't do with that information.
		Identity is the big picture, the whole story that allows corporate policy and processes to be applied in a consistent and comprehensive manner across an entire enterprise.
		The most important task in implementing identity management is to map interactions that more or less correlate to interfaces among applications.
	www.hipaadvisory.com /tech/netidentity.htm (1423 words)

	Identity management architectures - HP Dev Resource Central
		Identity management is the set of processes and tools for creating, maintaining and terminating a digital identity.
		See An Introduction to Identity Management for a discussion of identity management. It introduces identity management, defines the concept of a digital identity, and explains the key components of an identity management solution.
		To effectively manage identity and policy information in large enterprises/federated environments, it is equally important to delegate certain aspects of policy and identity administration to local administrators or, in certain cases, even users.
	devresource.hp.com /drc/resources/idmgt_arch/index.jsp (2886 words)

	Novell Identity Manager
		Novell Identity Manager lets you securely and automatically manage the access needs of all your users, even when they change roles and take on new responsibilities.
		Designer for Identity Manager is like a little sandbox in which you can play around with many different options as you create the identity policies and rules that will govern your network.
		Identity Manager unifies digital identities across all business systems in the enterprise so that when an identity is created or changed in the authoritative system, the new information is automatically propagated to all appropriate systems.
	www.novell.com /products/identitymanager (627 words)

	Identity Management: A Market Assessment - CSO Analyst Reports
		The identity management (IdM) market segment encompasses the technical and service infrastructure that allows companies to create, manage, and authenticate user identities and broker services based on the identities for use within an enterprise or in an Internet-based context.
		The primary foundation for most identity management platforms is a directory or directory service, which lists and organizes users (as well as applications) in a hierarchical structure and serves as a storehouse for identity attributes, including security rights and authentication information.
		Identity management vendors are currently expanding the footprint of their offerings through internal development, partnership, or acquisition.
	www.csoonline.com /analyst/report3240.html (1406 words)

	Psychology of Cyberspace - Identity Management in Cyberspace
		They are trying to transform the negative feature of their identity into a positive one, or perhaps change their attitude about that feature.
		People vary greatly in the degree to which they are consciously aware of and control their identity in cyberspace.
		They temporarily have surrendered their normal identity to the imaginary persona, perhaps later understanding the meaning of this transformation.
	www.rider.edu /~suler/psycyber/identitymanage.html (1903 words)

	Jamie Lewis - CEO and Research Chair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In all of these incidents (and others), identity information—which could be used by the attackers to commit the crime of identity theft—was exposed, through outright criminal behavior (such as fraud or system intrusion), negligence, or both.
		As the issues related to digital identity management get more mainstream attention, it’s even more important for all of us to be precise and accurate in how we describe both the problem and any potential solution.
		The unifying identity metasystem MUST facilitate negotiation between relying party and user of the specific identity and its associated encoding such that the unifying system presents a harmonious technical and human interface while permitting the autonomy of identity in different contexts.
	www.burtongroupblogs.com /jamielewis/identity_management (14948 words)

	Identity management: introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Identity management (IdM) comprises the set of business processes, together with a supporting infrastructure, for the creation, maintenance and use of digital identities within a legal and policy framework.
		The ability to use and manage digital identity – at the same time as balancing legal, regulatory, privacy, and security concerns – is a prerequisite for managing the virtual enterprise and making it more secure.
		In addition, identity management is critical to scaling e-business relationships across larger populations as well as enabling distributed applications to interoperate using secure Web services.
	www.identitymanagement.co.uk (520 words)

	Identity Access Management Strategy - Avatier Identity Management Software
		Before implementing an identity access management strategy at your company, it is wise to do a complete Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, or SWOT, analysis of identity management market as a whole.
		The major opportunities associated with implementing an identity management access control start design plan are increased security and well as a return on investment through fewer help desk calls and more tasks being accomplished due to administrative time being freed up.
		An identity management comparison will tell you that the only threat is choosing identity management software that is subpar, which might put your secure information at risk.
	www.avatier.com /management-strategy.html (253 words)

	Identity Access Management and Web Single Sign-On (SSO) Solution
		SecureCentral IdentityAccess Manager, IAM in short, is a centralized identity and access management solution providing support for web single sign-on (SSO) and Authentication, Authorization and Audit services for heterogeneous enterprise applications.
		Identity Management refers to the process of creating, manipulating and managing user identities and credentials to give access to various applications.
		And all the identity information pertaining to a user - be an employee or a customer or a partner - are recorded in each entry.
	www.securecentral.com /products/iam (469 words)

	Who are You?
		Although identity management is not specifically cited in any of the federal regulations, most companies agree that in order to ensure compliance, stricter controls are necessary.
		More than 100 identity management vendors are currently peddling their wares; some offer application suites that promise to meet your every need, others provide specific expertise.
		Identity management gives your firm greater control over processes and programs, tighter security around sensitive information and better management of employees—whether they are new hires, recently fired or changing their role within your organization.
	www.cioinsight.com /article2/0,1397,1642514,00.asp (1240 words)

	Identity Management Services - Avatier Software Solutions
		Single Sign On Believe it or not, the cost of identity management solutions and software is not as much as you might think.
		By implementing the Avatier Identity Management Server, which happens to be the world’s first and only internationalized solution for increasing ID security at your organization, you can quickly and easily maintain the highest level of identity management possible while saving money in the long run.
		To find out more about Avatier’s identity management solutions and how our software can be put to use in your organization, contact one of our representatives today.
	www.avatier.com /solutions/identitymanagement.html (311 words)

	What is identity management? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: ID management
		- Identity management (ID management) is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system (such as a country, a network, or an enterprise) and controlling their access to resources within that system by associating user rights and restrictions with the established identity.
		The driver licensing system is a simple example of identity management: drivers are identified by their license numbers and user specifications (such as "can not drive after dark") are linked to the identifying number.
		In a wider context, industry groups such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and The Open Group are developing standards that would enable global identity management, in which each individual would be uniquely identified, and all applicable data would be linked to that identity.
	searchsecurity.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci906307,00.html (505 words)

	Identity Management ... \| EDUCAUSE CONNECT
		Identity Management assembles several streams of activity around identifying members of the university community and provisioning services for those community members.
		Identity management can be used create a single-authentication environment, moving to a single sign-on environment, and then sharing that authentication among several universities in a federation.
		That works in reverse, too; we need to build Identity Management structures that are trusted infrastructures.
	connect.educause.edu /blog/rowe/identity_management/15445 (994 words)

	Technology Review: Identity 2.0
		The goal is to free up identity information from organizations and companies, and also allow individuals more control over who sees their personal information.
		In fact, it's the first identity management framework to use the open-source software model, in which anyone can contribute software code.
		Kim Cameron, architect of identity and access at Microsoft, considers the current identity situation on the Web -- with its passwords, cookies, and auto-complete forms -- to be a "patchwork of one-off and ad-hoc identity contraptions." InfoCard and similar management systems will help, he says, to add a secure layer of identity to the Internet.
	www.technologyreview.com /read_article.aspx?id=16509&ch=infotech (605 words)

	RSA Security - RSA Federated Identity Manager makes the promise of federated identity a reality
		A federated identity is a single user identity that can be used to access a group of web sites bound by the ties of federation.
		Ultimately, federated identity offers businesses, governments, employees and consumers a more convenient and secure way of accessing distributed resources without losing control over sensitive identity information, and is a key component in driving the use of e-commerce and personalized data services, as well as Web-based services.
		RSA Federated Identity Manager is the industry-leading federation solution enabling organizations to cost-effectively share trusted identities and collaborate with internal autonomous business units or with business partners, while ensuring ease-of-use for end-users.
	www.rsasecurity.com /node.asp?id=1191 (540 words)

	The Open Group Identity Management Forum
		The Identity Management Forum focuses on promoting effective, open standards-based identity management, which allows the right information to reach the right people, and is a prerequisite for enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™.
		We are developing an Identity Management Architecture Guide that will give IT architects working in and for enterprises a better conceptual understanding of the role of identity management and how to design for it, plus specific practical recommendations and advice.
		Explores key concepts of identity management (trust, authentication, provisioning, authorization, and directories), places these concepts within their business, personal, and technical perspectives, and proposes a set of steps to be taken by The Open Group to serve as a change agent promoting the resolution of industry-wide impediments to interoperable identity management solutions.
	www.opengroup.org /idm (673 words)

	Identity Management solutions
		Identity and access management (IdM) is vital in helping your company achieve secure, flexible, compliant and scalable systems.
		This facilitates regulatory compliance, one of the key drivers of identity management initiatives today allowing you to demonstrate to auditors that you are following approved processes for user provisioning, access and federation across your enterprise and with partners.
		HP OpenView Identity Management solutions are used in some of the most demanding global enterprises: financial services, manufacturing, government and Telco companies.
	www.managementsoftware.hp.com /solutions/im (255 words)

	Identity Management Products & Solutions - nCipher
		The ability to control access to networks, applications and data by users and devices is central to data security, compliance and risk management.
		Provisor is a complete user management and provisioning system that enables organizations to automate and manage all activities associated with adding, maintaining and removing digital identities, credentials and their entitlements.
		It provides centralized security management of policies and access privileges to critical applications, data and resources across the enterprise, reducing risk and simplifying regulatory compliance through comprehensive audit reporting.
	www.ncipher.com /identity_management (113 words)

	Identity management
		The identity and provisioning manager for the extended enterprise
		Managing identities and user entitlement becomes cumbersome across such extended organizations.
		From multiple identity sources, Upstream Provisioning builds an authoritative identity source and stores it into a reference LDAP directory.
	www.evidian.com /security/im/index.htm (323 words)

	Identity management software for multi-enterprise environments from Symlabs
		The first feature to look for in identity management software is multi-protocol support.
		Symlabs Federated Identity Access Manager's integrated open standards multi-protocol support gives you the ability to quickly expand into multiple circle of trust federations.
		With Symlabs Directory Extender as the robust backend engine, Symlabs Federated Identity Access Manager is able to quickly retrieve the relevant details, while ensuring security for sensitive information.
	www.symlabs.com /identity-management.html (431 words)

	Identity Management Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		ImageWare(R) Systems Inc., a developer of identity management solutions, recently announced that Computer Sciences Corp. has selected the IWS Biometric EngineTM to be a part of CSC's Border and Immigration Solutions (BIS) Center of Excellence.
		The Biometric Engine will be among the platforms CSC deploys for developing biometric identity management systems and border security solutions that will enable government agencies to achieve safer borders and immigration goals.
		Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, announced Liberty 2.0, a free public event to be held on Monday, Jan. 22 in Redwood City from 10 a.m.
	www.identitymanagementproducts.com (941 words)

	SOA Software - Solutions - Identity Management
		Most large enterprises have deployed Identity and Access Management solutions like Netegrity SiteMinder and Tivoli Access Manager to provide authentication, authorization and Single-Sign-On for based environments and applications.
		Identity Mapping - our integration with identity and access management solutions ensures that we can “translate” proprietary session cookies into real-world identities that we can then map to other identity repositories like RAC/F. This is critical for end-to-end security integration with Mainframe Web services.
		Identity-based SOA management - leveraging our integration with 3rd party identity and access management solutions to translate proprietary session cookies into real world identities we can use user, group and role information to drive dynamic quality-of-service and performance-based monitoring and routing to ensure that user specific service level agreement are kept.
	www.soa.com /index.php/section/solutions/identity_management (267 words)

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