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Sun Identity Management

White Papers

These business-level white papers examine the challenges facing enterprises today and show the role identity management plays in solving those issues.

Buyer's Guide

The Complete Buyer's Guide to Identity Management
Trying to select the right identity management solution? Get useful information and tools including a buyer's checklist, industry standards information, FAQs, a glossary and more.

Auditing

Improving Compliance and Efficiency with Sun Identity Auditing
Recounts the process and describes the benefits that have resulted for both Sun and its customers.

The Convergence of Provisioning and Identity Auditing
Examines business drivers and opportunities associated with a converged approach and explores scenarios that demonstrate its benefits.

Compliance

IAM: Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance
Explores healthcare requirements, best practices for implementing identity management to help ensure compliance, and Sun's simplified approach.

IAM: Enabling Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Review the act and its implications, how identity and access management (IAM) helps meets requirements and take a look at best practices and guidance on how to get started.

Getting PCI DSS Compliance Right: How Identity Management Can Help Secure Information Access
Protect sensitive data with a secure infrastructure that complies with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements.

Access Certification: Addressing and Building on a Critical Security Control
Discusses how to use access certification to address security controls, highlights the key criteria and shows the benefits in a customer use case.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance: A Practical Guide to Points of Entry
A practical guide on how to address enterprise GRC initiatives one component at a time, starting with the IT framework.

Meeting the Requirements of HSPD-12
Explores how identity management is playing a key role for U.S. federal government agencies that are implementing identity verification and access controls.

Directory Services

Top Three Reasons to Deploy a Virtual Directory
Presents a single, consolidated view of disparate identity data to organizations dealing with diverse legacy resources.

Federation

Microsoft "Geneva" Server and Sun OpenSSO
Focuses on interoperatibility utilizing the SAML federation standard in Sun OpenSSO and the forthcoming "Geneva" Server.

Federated Identity Management: The Foundation for Secure Large-Scale Outsourcing
Examines the challenges of outsourcing and the role of federated identity management in outsourcing.

Open Source

Guide to Open-Source Identity Management Software
Gain the flexibility and innovations at a lower cost than proprietary alternatives with open source-identity management software solutions.

Building Business Value

Keeping it Simple: A Pragmatic Approach to Identity Management
Make it easier to build and maintain an identity infrastructure that can support successful growth today and over the long term.

Risk, Reach, and Return: Everything Today's CISO Needs to Know About How to Succeed in the Web 2.0 Era
Arm the CISO with latest on the technology and innovations surrounding OpenSSO Enterprise.

The CIO and the CPO - A Vision For Teamwork and Success
Provides background on the different perspectives and offers practical tips for how these two organizations can work together to effectively guard against security and privacy risks.

The Role of Identity Management in Meeting the Challenges of Financial Services Organizations
Examines how to create an accessible, secure environment that ensures compliance in the financial services industry while increasing customer service.

Privacy

Engineering for Data Protection and Accountability
Explores approaches and benefits to increased data security and privacy in an IT environment.

Information Security for Pragmatists
Discusses Sun's focus on security as a component of business strategy which employs architectures, policies, tactics, processes, and procedures to yield a business enabler.

Privacy in the Participation Age
From the office of Michelle Dennedy, Sun's Chief Privacy Officer, this paper reviews how our progression from the Information Age to the Participation Age has affected enterprise networks, security and privacy.