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Understanding the Security Boundaries and Risks of Multiple Domains, Forests and Trust Relationships

Are domains really a security boundary? What’s the risk of creating trust relationships to external domains and forests? How do cross forest transitive trusts work? What can we do to implement security boundaries within a domain? Will users in domain A immediately gain access to resources in domain B if I set up [...]

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Unified Directory Goes Virtual: IdM R2 PS1

Oracle Unified Directory has set the bar for performance. Built ground up to provide elastic scale, Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) is interoperable with all directories in the Oracle Directory Services Suite.

With the Patchset 1 release OUD now combines the capabilities of Oracle Virtual Directory. With a combined directory, organizations can lower operating [...]

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Windows Azure Opens Active Directory For General Availability As Identity Battle Heats Up

Microsoft has opened its Active Directory (AD) to general availability on Windows Azure, giving developers access to the single-sign-on service for access to the suite of Microsoft services, third-party apps and SaaS providers.

Active Directory is the long-time single point of access to Microsoft Windows technologies. The Windows Azure AD compatibility means customers [...]

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Windows Azure with enterprise access management

If you already have Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant or if you are a new customer and create an Azure subscriptions using an Windows Azure AD tenant, you can access the following three new features to more securely and efficiently manage access to Windows Azure.
Manage users and their access rights [...]

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Open Standards in Cloud Foundry Identity Services

Cloud Foundry includes a component called the User Account and Authentication (UAA) service which was introduced about a year ago. It provides user account management and authentication for developers that push applications to cloudfoundry.com, including single signon with support.cloudfoundry.com, micro.cloudfoundry.com, and more on the way. It also provides delegated authorization capabilities to partner [...]

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Protecting Your Sun IAM Investment with ForgeRock’s Open Identity Stack

Join Forgerock for their upcoming webinar ” Protecting Your Sun IAM Investment with ForgeRock’s Open Identity Stack” on February 12, 2013.

Key Topics
* Comparing Migration Options
* ForgeRock Sun Upgrade Offerings
* Product Overview
* Q&A Discussion

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Identity and Access Management Articles

Audit log in Identity and Access Management Systems

Audit events in the identity and access management system are a key component to demonstrate that your company is compliance with some legislation like SOX. Also, it will help to your systems administrators to generate reports to identify an intruder if the identity and management system is being compromised.

Auditing involves logging security-critical [...]

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Identity Management Technical Details

Modifying LDAP Connection Handler in OpenDJ

By default clients are allowed to keep their connections open and reuse them for other operations. This can lead to problems under certain circumstances. To prevent this, clients must be forced to open a new connection for each operation.

This can be done by setting ds-cfg-use-tcp-keep-alive=false for each of the connection handlers.

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Unified Directory: An Interview with Etienne Remillon

Etienne Remillon is principal Product Manager in charge of Oracle’s Unified Directory Server offering. As a veteran directory expert, Etienne was product manager for the Sun IPlanet Directory Server and is now focused on Oracle’s next wave of directory innovation. Read more here…

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