Sun Microsystems Launches Identity Compliance Manager
Delivers Low-Cost Solution With Advanced Features to Help Customers
Achieve Proven ROI in 90 Days
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 20, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the availability of
Sun(TM) Identity Compliance Manager, a simple and cost-effective
solution to help customers better manage business and compliance risks,
as well as the costs associated with certifying, auditing and reporting
user access to data and applications. With Sun Identity Compliance
Manager, customers can expect to significantly lower the cost of
achieving compliance, improve their overall security and risk position
and see ROI within 90 days. To purchase Sun Identity Compliance Manager,
visit: http://www.sun.com/identitycompliancemanager
and to view Sun's ROI calculator, visit: https://www.sun.com/roicalc/identity/?intcmp=1762.
Most companies still rely on manual and inefficient processes to achieve
identity compliance. Sun Identity Compliance Manager enables customers
to automate controls and reporting associated with access, allowing them
to implement complete and repeatable audits. Organizations can also use
Sun Identity Compliance Manager to monitor changes in user access as
they occur and correct erroneous access immediately. As a result,
customers can maintain compliance and mitigate potential business risks
in near real-time.
“With the addition of Sun Identity Compliance
Manager, Sun continues to solidify our leadership position in the
identity management market,” said Mark
Herring, vice president of marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun
Microsystems. “With tight IT budgets, tougher
regulations and security mandates to protect against internal and
external threats, Sun Identity Compliance Manager offers customers an
effective and automated solution to manage their challenging compliance
needs head-on and potentially cut their compliance costs in half.”
Sun Identity Compliance Manager also integrates with leading user
provisioning solutions, allowing companies to avoid costly duplication.
With this integration, customers are able to take advantage of existing
connections to the applications provisioned by these systems for both
collecting access data and for completing remediation requests.
Highlights of Sun Compliance Manager include:
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Access Certification: Automates the consolidation and
correlation of identity and access data across the enterprise,
presents the collected data to the appropriate business owner for
review and captures the audit trail of the entire process. The process
for certifying access assigned to a user may be scheduled flexibly
based on any segmentation of the user population, as well as triggered
automatically based on important events that occur during a user's
lifecycle, such as: on-boarding, transfers, off-boarding, etc.
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Entitlement Glossary: Allows customers to capture, assign and
manage descriptions of often cryptic IT entitlements in simple
business terms. This helps ensure that business managers understand
what they are reviewing and avoid "rubber stamping" their decisions.
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Segregation of Duties Enforcement: Offers the ability to define
and enforce security policies both within and across applications,
delivering a comprehensive and out-of-the-box solution that enforces
limits on the control one employee can have over key financial
transactions.
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Remediation Tracking and Validation: Allows users to initiate a
request to correct erroneous access. These requests may be propagated
automatically as part of change management systems, user provisioning
systems or via email. Sun Identity Compliance Manager tracks the
requests, validates the correction and captures the associated audit
trail.
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Compliance Dashboards and Reporting: Offers a number of
compliance dashboards and reports that provide the compliance process
owner with the relevant information needed to help ensure that proper
controls are in place and the associated evidence is collected.
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Benefits from Sun's Compliance
Solution
"Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has used Sun's compliance offering for
several user access review cycles. These reviews have included roles and
exception access for more than 60 applications across our enterprise,”
said Craig Cooper, senior project manager, Thrivent Financial for
Lutherans. “Sun's technology presents
technical access information in a uniform, easy to understand format and
includes a business defined definition to each role or entitlement
reviewed."
Pricing & Availability
Sun Identity Manager is available immediately with a base price of
$75,000 (USD) in addition to a small fee per user. Subscription-base
pricing is also available.
Sun's Comprehensive Identity Management Portfolio
In the past six months, Sun has updated its entire identity management
portfolio, offering a complete identity management solution that
provides open access, open source and open standards. Sun's identity
management suite includes the following products: Sun(TM) Role Manager,
Sun Compliance Manager, Sun(TM) Identity Manager and Sun OpenSSO
Enterprise. Sun technology manages billions of user identities worldwide
for more than 5,000 organizations, including many Fortune 100 companies.
Sun received an overall positive(1) in Gartner's Vendor Rating report
from June 27, 2008. For information on Sun's identity management
portfolio, visit: www.sun.com/identity.
Sun at Burton Catalyst EMEA Conference
Sun will be hosting a hospitality suite and showcasing demos of its
complete identity management portfolio at the Burton Catalyst EMEA
Conference on Tuesday, October 21, at the Hilton Prague Hotel in Prague,
Czech Republic, from 6-9 p.m. To register for the hospitality suite,
visit: https://burtongroup.wingateweb.com/eu08/portal/newreg.ww
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or service, relative to Gartner's analysis of clients' requirements. It
is not intended as a comparison relative to competitors in the market.
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About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java and the Network Is The
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