Oracle OPN Days - Virtual Event

Much more the "virtually helpful"...











What are Virtual Days?
Somewhat of a hybrid between web conferencing and social networking these events offer a unique opportunity to gather subject matter experts from around the world with industry thought leaders have dynamic discussions about technology, architecture, but most importantly ... How do you make your organization more successful?


Challenges with a traditional conference:
We have all been to many large conference halls from the San Francisco Moscone Center to the Venetian Hotel & Conference Center in Vegas or the Orlando Florida Conference Center. While the face time to build relationships is important there are many draw backs, for example consider these scenarios we have all experienced:

• You make it to the booth of someone you need to connect with but the expert on your topic won't be here until tomorrow.
• A key customer approaches but Jim Thompson who runs product management just went to the bathroom
• Despite being at the event, Tom Jones the architect whose advice is highly valued by the CIO and decision maker is too shy to approach face to face so you never knew they were there or could find Tom.
• You are talking to a potentially large customer but they are interested in a new product or partnership and the collateral did not make it to the show.
• You agree to share content on a pressing issue but the action items get scribbled on a conference flyer and get lost.
• You finally connect with the right people and you can't find a place to sit and talk or hear one another over the crowd
• You get cards from everyone you meet but it would take another week to index then and store the information virtually and it becomes difficult to follow up.
• You get to the booth in the morning but your technical sales manager was out with a client the night before and did not make it to the booth in time to meet another key client

Instead with a Virtual Event you can:

• Dynamically grab the content you need and provide it electronically
• Pull in experts from anywhere in any language instantly
• Digitally share contact information and action items
• Avoid the high cost of traveling to conferences
• Save your feet and time running between sessions

Why the Oracle OPN Days?

• Support for 9 languages
• Product, alliance, and sales experts in 1 place
• Information across Oracle database, middleware, and applications
• This event is focused on partners and how they can be successful with Oracle and benefit from our many sales and marketing programs.
• Rapidly navigate the ~85,000 Oracle organization

To learn more visit the site:

http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=491&seid=26&code=OPNDaysVEOracleMailSignature

Updated Oracle IDM Ecosystem

The Oracle IDM Ecosystem is strong and growing!

Oracle announced the Extended IDM Ecosystem in June 2007 to unify security islands, as Organizations commonly have multiple security systems in place—one technology to secure physical access, another to secure legacy applications, and yet another to secure network access. To cope with these "silo'd" solutions, Oracle partnered with best-of-breed ISVs to offer a central and effective means to enforce security policy across all enterprise resources.

Today the mission continues to be the same while the technology landscape and customer requirements have evolved. Since I took it over the leadership of the Ecosystem in June of 2008 we have added several new categories including:

• SOA Security & Governance – Enforcing and managing message level security, throttling, and acceleration for the Oracle SOA Suite

• Identity Assurance - Certified solutions for fraud prevention combining Oracle Adaptive Access Manager (OAAM) with solutions spanning Identity Proofing, Internet Geolocation, Out-of-Band Authentication, Secure Remote Access, and more.
  

• Data Loss Prevention – Partnering with the leaders in end point security and data protection to identify the flow of sensitive information and protect it through IRM, and IDM policy reconciliation.

• Priveleged User Management – Extending the management of application accounts, users, and credentials to provision, secure, and monitor privileged/shared accounts by users or applications.
  

The core benefits, that extend to these new categories as well, include:

Reduces deployment risk—Certified and proven interoperability significantly reduces time to deployment, costs, and risks of deployment

Strengthens security and compliance—Central management of disparate resources and identities improves enterprise security and enhances regulatory compliance

Improves operational efficiencies—Linking identity across systems and providing a central authentication interface greatly improves operational efficiencies and user productivity

The current list of partners includes:

• Authentication & Identity Management—Arcot Systems, ArcSight, Daon, Entrust, F5 Networks, Giesecke & Devrient, Juniper Networks, Quantum Secure, RSA
  
• Identity Assurance—ActivIdentity, BIO-key, IDology, Juniper Networks, Quantum Secure, Quova, StrikeForce, Vasco
  
• SOA Security & Governance – Vordel , Layer7 , Intel , and Sonoa Systems
  
• Data Loss Prevention – McAfee, Symantec, & ControlGuard
  
• Priveleged Account Management – Cloakware, Cyber-Ark, Liebsoft, and BeyondTrust (formerly Symark)

As always you can learn about the Ecosystem on Oracle.com
http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/identity-management/ecosystem.html

To learn more about becoming an Oracle Partner please visit the Oracle Partner Network:
http://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html

Symantec announces DLP powered by Oracle IRM

Oracle IRM and Symantec DLP integration announced

Launching their latest release of data loss prevention (DLP), Symantec focused on the new functionality in version 10 allowing customers to directly leverage the benefits or Oracle IRM to protect their sensitive data.

Symantec is the leader in DLP technology and organizations world wide leverage their solution for discovery and monitoring of enterprise network traffic and perimeters to detect the flow of information that needs to be protected for privacy, compliance, or from competitors. When DLP detects something that is deemed confidential it can take some action upon it, typically this is in the form of blocking the information from continuing to be transmitted or removing it from the file servers.

However combining DLP with IRM means you don't have to restrict the end user or impede the business by blocking their attempts to collaborate. Instead you directly enable the organization to interact securely and teach best practices. Oracle IRM technology will encrypt and protect the document or email so that it can be shared. IRM ensures only authorized users have access and provides advanced security controls such as revocation to the information, even after it has left the control of your enterprise networks.

Oracle and Symantec have been working closely together over the past months to build an integration between Oracle IRM and DLP based on direct input from customers and implementation partners. The combined solution offers the most innovative, use-case driven security solution of any IRM and DLP combination.

Oracle IRM is the leading rights management solution for enterprise-scale document and email security and Oracle is the leader in Enterprise Identity & Access Management according to Gartner, Burton and Forrester. Combining this innovative technology and thought leaders for Access Management and Content Security means customers can now have rich monitoring and detection capabilities.

Instead of blocking attempts to share valuable data, this solution allows it to happen securely. We first demonstrated this capability at Oracle Open World and if you were not able to attend, we've uploaded some video demonstrations to our YouTube channel.

If you want to learn more about using Oracle IRM and DLP together contact us.

IRM at oracle.com

Online demonstration

Downloads on OTN

Technical white paper

Business white paper


The official Oracle IRM Blog is available here or by looking through the archives.

Identity Management Partners making news at Oracle Open World

While Oracle Open World is traditionally dominated by Database and Applications, this year Identity Management made waves and made press.

Network World's Dave Kearns similarly noted the shows focus but reported on some of the highlights for Information Security in his Column
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/101909id2.html?hpg1=bn

Particularly he noted the innovative solution for Privileged Account Management offered by Liebsoft and highly tuned and integrated to work with Oracle products:

http://www.liebsoft.com/common.aspx?id=3103

Also of interest to Dave was the unique Enterprise SSO Anyware offering Oracle brought to market through their alliance with PassLogix:

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/035509

Though Dave did not mention what many feel is one of the most innovative architectural solutions for Web Access Management announced by F5 to reduce the complexity of agent deployments, updates, and management by moving them to the load balancer with their industry leading Big-IP product.
http://www.f5.com/news-press-events/press/2009/20091006.html

What is Consumer SOA? "COSA"

So what is Consumer Oriented Service Architecture (COSA)?

SOA is a well known and established technology area with innovation driven by technology vendors like BEA/Oracle and SoftwareAG for leveraging/wrapping legacy applications and rapidly integrating technology across platforms, partners, and customers but COSA is a new concept.

The term itself was coined by Oracle Product Manager Vikas Jain in his blog
http://ws-security.blogspot.com/2009/10/consumer-oriented-service-architecture.html
But the idea is well established and was driven by those delivering services not by technology vendors.

As Vikas points out "While SOA concentrated on how to make the service architecture better, it left out on the consumer focus. The consumer focus becomes especially important when services are exposed to partners."

Vikas goes on to define the key challenges and requirements for a COSA solution such as Consumer Identification, Throttling so that the right customers get the right SLA, Contracts & Policies, Reporting, and Provisioning.

Today media vendors and social media vendors are leading the charge and paving the road with innovative technology vendors like Vordel, Sonoa Systems, Layer7, and Intel.

MTV Networks is a great example with their work with Sonoa Systems:
http://www.sonoasystems.com/about-us/news-and-events/mtv-networks-selects-sonoa-for-api-infrastrcture-feed-management

It is also demonstrated by the participation of Steve Riley, Evangelist and Strategy for Amazon at the Vordel User Conference.
http://www.vordel.com/news/press/16_09_09.html


Intel is targeting Oracle Fusion customers with http://www.intelforfusion.com/

Layer7 is also making waves with their announcement around integrating Oracle Service Bus with their hardware XML Gateway. http://www.layer7tech.com/main/products/osba.html

F5 Announces Plans to Unify Access Management for Web Applications

Solution Will Combine F5`s BIG-IP System with Oracle Access Manager to Enhance
Single Sign-on Capabilities and Simplify Access Control

SEATTLE--(Business Wire)-- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced that it plans to integrate F5 BIG-IP access solutions with Oracle Identity Management software to centralize web application authentication and authorization services, streamline access management, and reduce infrastructure costs.

Details
Advantages of combining F5 and Oracle solutions will include:

* Tight integration of the F5 BIG-IP system with Oracle Access Manager, enabling reduced TCO, lowered deployment risk, and streamlined operational efficiencies for customers.
* Integration with Oracle Access Manager Single Sign-On (SSO) to promote a superior end-user experience and enhanced user productivity. This integration will enable organizations to adopt an access management and SSO strategy that allows rapid ROI.
* A unified point of enforcement to simplify auditing and control changes in configuring application access settings.

F5, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, will provide additional information about the planned solution in Booth #1421 at Oracle OpenWorld, taking place October 11-15 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. To learn more about F5`s presence at Oracle OpenWorld and other industry events, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/events.

Availability
The combined solution is expected to be available within the first half of CY 2010.

Supporting Quotes
"Ease of implementation and TCO are very important to Oracle and its customers," said Brian Mozinski, Director, Product Management, Identity Management and Security at Oracle. "By integrating functionality from Oracle Access Manager and F5`s BIG-IP system, customers can further streamline their deployments of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Identity Management Suite."

"Our goal is to help businesses maximize the value of their technology investments," said Muneer Taskar, Director, Sales at Persistent Systems, a technology company specializing in software product development services. "Integration and interoperability from vendors like Oracle and F5 make customer deployments simpler and less costly to deploy and manage. We look forward to adding this new access management solution to our product portfolio."

"Close working relationships with key identity and access management vendors like Oracle are very important to F5," said Jason Needham, Sr. Director of Product Management at F5. "Together, we can deliver significant value to our joint customers by enabling them to centralize and unify application access control services across increasingly diverse network environments. F5 is committed to providing innovative access management solutions and edge services-such as SSL VPN, acceleration, and other managed services-to maximize IT agility and deliver enhanced functionality, security, and ROI to customers."

About F5 Networks
F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5`s flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value. F5`s vision of unified application and data delivery offers customers an unprecedented level of choice in how they deploy
ADN solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organizations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers trust F5 to keep their business moving forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 21,000 companies that deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle`s premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today`s global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle`s position as the world's largest business software company. Partners who are able
to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Certified Partner levels. For more information, go to http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com.

F5 and BIG-IP are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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