WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced that it has extended its support for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance through enhanced authentication. Version 1.5 of the WSO2 Identity Solution for strong Web authentication based on open standards and open source is now generally available and adds support for OpenID, a popular feature for decentralizing single sign-on. Additionally, WSO2 has joined the OpenID Foundation and is a founding member of the Information Card Foundation, which was launched June 23, 2008. - SOA Identity Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced that Alcatel-Lucent has selected IBM Tivoli identity management software to help support its efforts to increase security measures, improve employee efficiency, reduce help desk costs and support compliance initiatives. - SOA Identity Archtect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced details of new application security software designed to help clients securely manage employee, partner and customer IT users and their access to company applications and information. - SOA Identity Architect - SOA IDENTITY ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Daon, a leading provider of identity assurance software announced today the release of DaonEngine Version 4.0. Daon recently received the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Award for Global Biometrics Product Line Strategy Leadership and with this latest release the company further solidifies its position as the biometric identity assurance platform leader. DaonEngine 4.0 provides important new capabilities and extended functionality which allows Daon partners to deliver flexible and secure identity assurance solutions more quickly. The company also announced that it has been awarded a contract by a major US government agency to license DaonEngine 4.0. - SOA Identity Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced the Identity Federation and Web Services: Happening Today - Enabling Tomorrow workshop taking place at RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco on Monday, April 7 from 1:00 - 4:30pm. - SOA Identity Architect - SOA Identity in Connected Environments - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Intellitactics and Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) have joined forces to provide businesses and government agencies a real-time capability to detect fraud and thwart identity theft. This alliance combines Intellitactics Security Manager and Radware’s business-smart network to provide security and operational teams a way to monitor the activity of authenticated users accessing online portals and web applications. - SOA Identity Architect - Managing Identity in SOA Environments - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

As the competitive edge of the global economy is shifting to “services” delivered over the Internet, we need a way of making identity available on-demand to the services in an open, scalable, and secure manner. Identity for services is a holistic concern that must satisfy technology, regulatory and business needs for existing and emerging markets, such as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Identity services should introduce consistency, efficiency and scalability in IT infrastructures built on the Internet to form the new “identity layer”. - SOA Identity Architect - Managing Identity in SOA Envirnoments - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented integration architectures, today announced a go-to-market partnership with Novell to secure programmatic Web services, leveraging Novell eDirectory and Novell Access Manager identity solutions. - SOA Identity Architect - SOA Identity in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Encentuate, Inc., a privately held company based in Redwood City, California, and a leading provider of identity and access management software focused on enterprise single sign-on and integration of strong authentication technology. IBM will integrate Encentuate into IBM Software Group's Tivoli division. - SOA Identity Architect - SOA Identity in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Analyst group Kuppinger Cole + Partners has unveiled the ten predominant topics and trends in Identity Management in 2008, with Identity 2.0 unsurprisingly leading the way as it continues to receive the growing support and influence of industry giants including Yahoo, Google, Microsoft und IBM. Identity 2.0 is the issue of identity verification on the Internet using emerging user-centric technologies such as Information Cards or OpenID. - SOA Identity Architect - SOA Identity in a Connected World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

With governance, risk and compliance (GRC) issues acknowledged by leading industry analysts as the number one driver of identity management projects at organizations worldwide, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the immediate availability of new GRC Web services from SAP that enable the seamless integration of identity management software solutions with SAP(R) GRC Access Control, the market-leading application for monitoring and enforcing user access and authorization controls. - SOA Identity Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - SOA Identity in a Connected World << MORE >>

Shibboleth Project to Develop Interoperability with Microsoft's Windows CardSpace. SOA Identity Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Securent, a startup that makes software to regulate what corporate-data employees can access on their computers, has upgraded its platform with new support for databases and collaboration applications. - SOA Identity Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Securent, Inc. today announced the next release of the Securent Entitlement Management Solution (EMS), further enabling organizations to meet their security and compliance requirements by securing access to sensitive applications and information with unmatched fine-grained controls and visibility. - SOA Identity Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP is Enhancing CIOs' Ability to Centralize Identity Management and Increase Security Across Heterogeneous SOA Landscapes - SOA Identity Architect - THE SOA NETWORK<< MORE >>

This note summarizes a process for determining the supported schema elements of an organization's externally-provided identity services, if that organization uses SAML 2.0-based or WS-Federation-based federated identity protocols. - SOA Identity Architect << MORE >>

OASIS has created a committee to guide Web Services Federation Language - SOA Identity Architect<< MORE >>

The computer, security and identity industries have come to greatly improve their understanding of the ways in which identity information is most effectively federated. - SOA Identity Architect<< MORE >>

OASIS announced that members of the consortium had formed a new committee to advance the WS-Federation specification through the international standards process. WS-Federation aims to extend the scope of identity management, enabling federations of trust. - SOA Identity Architect << MORE >>

"The combination of SOA platforms, XML gateways, application servers and Web services security-enabled IAM solutions can be leveraged to scale the management and security of XML-based Web services and full-fledged SOA architectures as they are rolled out across the enterprise." - SOA Identity Architect - Building Confidence in a Connected World << MORE >>

New Identity-Enabled B2B Integration Solution is Industry's First to Include Market-Leading Identity Management to Securely Manage, Automate System-to- System Communication Among Trading Partners - SOA Identity Architect << MORE >>

Gerry Gebel of the Burton Group discusses the need for an Interoperability Challenge. - SOA Identity Architect<< MORE >>

We're seeing a growing demand for federation across several vertical industries, with multiple enterprises federating with more than 50 partner organizations, a far cry from the typical one or two more common a couple of years ago. Notably, many, though not all, of these early adopters are looking to replace proprietary mechanisms with standards-based products. - SOA Identity Architect<< MORE >>

A key milestone in open-source identity services have been reached, according to two projects working on the problem. - SOA Identity Architect << MORE >>

New Blog to hightlight the best places to get SOA Security and Identity Training. - SOA Identity Architect<< MORE >>

This project is being bootstrapped by the Liberty Alliance which is a consortium of companies and organizations producing standards and best practices for network identity (protocols and policy practices that deliver security and privacy to portable identities on the network). << MORE >>

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Forum Systems Unveils Industry-First Security Token Service (STS) Network Appliance << MORE >>

The Liberty Alliance has said it in discussions with Microsoft on how to reconcile their competing standards for secure web transactions. << MORE >>

Resources for Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management.<< MORE >>

Company Announces Platform-Agnostic Identity, Provisioning and Compliance Solution via New Software Known as PresenceID - SOA Identity Architect<< MORE >>

Organisations have to bring together a well understood set of identity management capabilities in an organised fashion if they are to respond effectively to these trends<< MORE >>

The software maker says its Identity and Access Management software package offers greatly simplified management tools and new capabilities for ID federation among partners. << MORE >>

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The Identity Governance Framework (IGF) is an open initiative designed to help organizations better govern and protect sensitive identity-related employee, customer and partner information as it flows across heterogeneous applications<< MORE >>

IBM is rolling out identity management software to help small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) transact with the networks of larger partners. << MORE >>

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Oracle Identity Management, Rapidly Growing Component of Best-in-Class Middleware Experiences Significant Momentum<< MORE >>

Liberty Identity Web Services Framework ID-WSF 2.0: Overview, Opportunity and Application<< MORE >>

"Liberty's ID-WSF 2.0 provides organizations with a complete framework for more easily deploying privacy-respecting and secure Web services and SOAs"<< MORE >>

Sun Microsystems and Neogent, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire Neogent, an identity management services automation company.<< MORE >>

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Companies establish a center to develop custom services and speed the delivery of secure, SOA-focused apps to users << MORE >>

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Announcement by Diamelle Technologies.<< MORE >>

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