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