Identity management and the growing importance of
directories is deomnstrated in the range of products
revealed at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference in San Francisco,
which starts today.
Regulatory pressures distributed systems, and the desire to
secure web services are forcing customers to re-evaluate supplier
commitment towards identity management, said Jamie Lewis, chief
executive officer and research chair at Burton Group.
As Microsoft steps up its ID management efforts with Identity
Integration Server 2003, the likes of IBM, Novell, Waveset
Technologies, Critical Path, Neoteris and Sun Microsystems will
unwrap auditing, password management, compliance, and secure
identity portal initiatives.
Microsoft's MIIS includes automated account provisioning and
web-based self-service password-management.
IBM will unveil an enterprise privacy language and toolkits to
help developers build privacy into applications to ease ID
management, and will tackle provisioning through its release of IBM
Tivoli Identity Manager 4.5 next month. The product will boast
enhanced customisation features to automate business processes
within enterprise environments.
Novell's Nsure Audit - which provides secure logging, web-based
access control, and auditing - ss the newest addition to the Nsure
secure identity management line. An SDK will complement the release
to plug-in third-party applications. Novell will also release a
secure ID management road map and a Security Assertion Markup
Language extension for iChain.
Meanwhile, Waveset will unveil Waveset Lighthouse Directory
Master, a cross-platform administration portal for directories,
which offers a single interface for multiple directories to migrate
and manage disparate identity data into a consolidated
environment.
Waveset will also team with Sun at Catalyst to produce an ID
management offering for PeopleSoft apps.
Critical Path will announce a password management application
featuring a reusable architecture that exploits existing
infrastructure components, including metadirectory.
Lastly, Neoteris will introduce Neoteris Meeting Series, an
appliance for secure online meetings for 10 to 250 simultaneous
users via SSL transport.
Brian Fonseca writes for InfoWorld