Sun Microsystems White Paper Sample

Identity management is a critical component of an enterprise’s IT infrastructure— particularly as more enterprise applications and systems are being leveraged across extranets. As the number of users grows exponentially, enterprises must ensure that they can meet their increasingly complex identity management needs while keeping the organization in compliance and keeping costs low.

Today, enterprises have the option of choosing open-source solutions to meet their identity management requirements. This chapter explores the advantages of opensource identity software and provides a look at Sun Identity Source, our open-source identity initiative, which currently includes OpenSSO and OpenDS. OpenSSO, the world’s largest open-source identity management project, provides highly scalable, high-performance capabilities for single sign-on (SSO), access management, federation, and secure Web services. OpenDS is an open-source community project focused on building a free, comprehensive, next-generation directory service based on LDAP and DSML standards.