Network Identity

Network Identity is a solution that incorporates a set of business processes and the supporting technology infrastructure to manage the life cycle of identities and the relationships of those identities with business applications and information. Identity Management is the fusion of directory services, network security and authentication, user provisioning and user management, single sign-on technologies, and Web services delivery. A comprehensive Network Identity infrastructure solution incorporates Identity Management and allows companies to create, manage, and authenticate online identities and broker services based on those identities, and securely deliver personalized, authorized applications and information.

Business Benefits

• Lower Administrative Costs:
  Automation of authorization tasks through policy-driven identity/user management simplifies and reduces deployment time and costs.
• Enhanced User Productivity:
  Single sign-on provides a streamlined user authentication process, resulting in quicker access to requested content and fewer help-desk calls for password resets. Network Identity enables a personalized user experience and a reusable foundation for personalized services.
• Delivers Strong and Consistent Security:
  Delivers a consistent, scalable security model across all Web-based applications by using a central authentication point, shared credential management and Web-based single sign-on.
• Generates new revenue opportunities through Enhanced Partnership opportunities:
  Federated Identity Management enables businesses to explore new streamlined partnership and affinity programs to deliver their services to mutual customers, while enabling them to protect the privacy and security of the user information.
• Enables Open Standards and Federated Identity:
  Sun Java Systen (formerly Sun ONE) software products are among the first to implement and support the Liberty Alliance and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specifications. This enables Interoperability between identity systems and shared authentication and attributes with partners, customers, and suppliers. Other standards supported include LDAP v2 and v3, SOAP, JDK 1.4 Log, JAAS and ELS log format.

The Sun Advantage

Sun Java System Directory Server (formerly Sun ONE Directory Server) is the industry leading directory that is also rated as a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant. Sun ONE Directory Server is architected to be scalable, highly available, reliable and the fastest performing directory. Sun ONE Identity Server provides pre-integrated access management, identity administration, user self-service and management, service management, and federated identity management in a single, integrated product. Sun is the first vendor to offer a Liberty enabled product and platform solution for Identity Management.

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