Federation for Sharing Beyond Boundaries

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Getting Started

Provisioning and Secure Access Ongoing Compliance Federation for Sharing Beyond Boundaries For Partners

Share resources beyond enterprise boundaries

Growing the business means opening your enterprise to secure access by customers, suppliers, and partners. Sun identity management provides the broadest support in the industry for federated identity management and Web services among your external user communities.

Secure Access Management

Utilize role- and rule-based access control
Provide single sign-on across heterogeneous IT environments
Enable trusted partnerships with authentication and authorization across federated business networks
Centralize security policy enforcement

Low-Cost, Secure Federation Solutions

Simplify deployment into existing IT infrastructures
Leverage authentication, authorization, and security policies in the hub-and-spoke partner network
Support all major federation protocols (SAML, Liberty)
Repeat integration for low-cost, rapid rollout to multiple partners

Highly-Available, Scalable, Manageable and Secure Directory Services

Provide multi-master replication
Allow access to maximum memory capacity and deliver high performance with the industry's only commercial, 64-bit, enterprise-class directory server
Enable large system usage and cost-efficiencies with linear scalability up to 12 CPUs
Prevent unauthorized access and enable failover operations with proxy services
Integrate with Microsoft Active Directory to simplify secure, On-Demand password synchronization
Manage users, groups, and organizational units with an intuitive, Web-based interface
Provide quick retrieval, referral, and viewing of identity information with Directory Server Resource Kit

Featured Products

Access Manager makes it easier to deliver online access without compromising security.

Federation Manager enables secure partnerships on a large scale at a low cost.

Directory Server Enterprise Edition improves operational efficiency with secure, reliable directory services.

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What is identity federation?

Watch this quick, self-running Flash presentation to learn more about identity federation. Watch now

Want the basics?

The Basics of Identity Federation
The Basics of Secure Outsourcing with Federated Identity Management

Want white papers?

Identity Federation: Transcending the Boundaries of Business for Secure Collaboration
Federated Identity Management: The Foundation for Secure Large-Scale Outsourcing

What is Access Management and Federated SSO?

View the Sun Net Talk

Why Sun for federation?

Awarded 4 out of 5 stars for Federation

“Sun leads because of their comprehensive vision, which will enable them to grow with the market without fundamentally changing their concepts.

Sun has proven ability to provide the foundation for mega-scale identity management projects.”

— Ovum, Identity Management: Time for Action, July 2005

“Sun Java Identity Management Suite has added significant value to our retail channel while maintaining our investment in our existing POS systems. And because it is based on an open framework, we know our investment will be protected well into the future. Additionally, we are meeting our goals of reducing our recurring operation costs and increasing our ongoing customer service levels.”

— Christian Kattenbusch, Swisscom Mobile, Project Manager

Success with Sun

Government of Norway needed to enable single sign-on (SSO) for secure login to a portal access to all government services.

Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) needed help with authorization and authentication for their continually expanding customer. base so they turned to Sun identity management for help.