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Next week, Nov. 9-11, the Identity Management Team travels down to Gartner Identity Access Management conference to showcase two of our latest releases DSEE 7 and Role Manager 5.  Gartner IAM is a great event because it not only gather's together experienced practitioners in the identity management space but has a number of events that are small enough that you can have quality conversations about real problems.  Last year, Verizon presented at this conference on the Directory and OpenSSO implementation that serves 50M users.  The presentation is a great example of the proven expertise that Sun brings to Identity Management and the proven extranet scale our products can support---not a marketing benchmark.

Our team has taken a different approach to this even this year and we are participating in Gartner's Learning Lab's.  Vendors, customer's and identity specialists are encouraged to come-by in a classroom style and learn about specific problem's Sun's product, partner's and customer's are doing to solve their identity business problems.  This is crucial today as the cost of failure or doing nothing rises exponentially.  The best way to ensure success is to learn from real-world implementations not marketing based slideware presentations.  This is why we have assembled not just the product teams but partners and real customer's to share their experience in these "learning labs".

The other great thing about Gartner IAM is that there are usually a few different ways to combine great industry expertise and a little fun.  On Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 9:00pm you can meet the Sun Identity team at the Hard Rock Rooftop bar for drinks and conversation.  The first 50 people get a wristband for free drinks.  Identity management isn't hard so come to the Hard Rock to find out how to make it easy! 

Gartner IAM Sun Schedule

Monday, Nov 9th

Learning Lab:

12:40 - 1:05pm “Increase Speed & Performance while reducing TCO with Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition” Speaker: Nick Wooler, Sr Product Manager – Sun Microsystems

1:05 - 1:30pm “Changing the Rules of the game; Raising the bar with Rule Life-cycle Management and closed-loop remediation” Speaker: Neil Gandhi, Sr Product Manager – Sun Microsystems

1:35 - 2:00pm "IAM Governance, Risk and Compliance -- the future of IAM", Speaker: Sachin Nayyar, President - BrinQa

2:05 - 2:30pm "Enterprise Single Sign On for Sun Identity Management", Speaker: Stephane Fymat, VP of Strategy and Product Management - Passlogix

Sun Booth:

12:30 - 2:30pm Daniel Raskin showcasing OpenSSO

12:30 - 2:30pm Mat Hamlin showcasing Identity Manager

Tuesday, Nov 10^th

Learning Lab:

12:10 - 12:35pm “Role based user provisioning; using business roles for identity life-cycle management and identity auditing”, Speaker: Mat Hamlin, Sr Product Manager, Sun Microsystems

12:35 - 1:00pm “Three tough challenges, one powerful solution: OpenSSO for web access management, federation and Web services security”, Speaker: Daniel Raskin, Chief Identity Strategist – Sun Microsystems

1:05 - 1:30pm "Privileged Identity Risk Management: Mitigating the Insider Threat", Speaker: Richard Weeks, VP of Channels and Business Development, Cyber-Ark

1:35 - 2:00pm "The WHO behind the WHAT: Arcot Authentication and Sun OpenSSO Enterprise "  Speaker: R 'Doc' Vaidhyanathan, Chief Product Officer - Arcot

Sun Booth:

12:00 - 2:00pm Nick Wooler, showcasing DSEE

12:00 - 2:00pm Neil Ghandi, showcasing Role Manager

Yesterday, Neil Ghandi, Matt Hamlin, Etienne Remillon and Nick Wooler gave a quick overview of what is new in Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5.  Here are just a few of the great highlights that were discussed during the presentation.  Of course, you can get the full video embeded below.  Lastly, if you are interested in seeing more events like this you can go to the webinar site here.  

You can download the slides here.  You can download the video here.

Daniel Raskin, Senior Product Line Manager for OpenSSO,  wrote a great blog today posting the slides and video recording of a recent presentation where Damodaram Bashyam, Directory of IT, at Verizon Wireless at Gartner IAM in Orlando last Fall.  The video below from Daniel's blog allows us all to hear about his deployment of OpenSSO and Directory Server.   It is an example of the great content that is presented at Gartner and we hope you will join us for the next Gartner conference in London on March 23-26.  

It is a powerful example of the talented engineers we have at Sun and the results of good partnerships with customers like Verizon.  Scalability and high availability are a part of our DNA at Sun and as you can see from the video and Damodaram's presentation we believe live case studies prove the value of our product better than any controlled benchmark.  Watch and listen:

Here is a quick overview of the performance statistics from the presentation.  Download it here

As President-elect Obama announced his Energy Team yesterday, I was excited for two reasons.  One, Steven Chu is a Californian from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and it is nice to see local citizens playing National and Global roles improving our environment.  Two, I am proud to work at Sun because a large number of the energy innovators like Argonne Laboratory, which is also a part of the Department of Energy, are using Sun's Software to provide the backbone of innovation within these organizations.  

Argonne Laboratory uses Directory Server Enterprise Edition to power their collaboration infrastructure.  They also use MySQL, JavaES, OpenSSO Enterprise and Virtualization (e.g. xVM Server) to power their innovation.  You can see a great video with David Salbego, Director of IT Infrastructure at Argonne National Labs regarding his experience and business benefits resulting from Sun solutions. 

BC Hydro also used OpenSSO Enterprise and Directory Server to reduce cost of providing a web portal for their customers to get interact with their organization.  They reduced the use of paper and conserved resources for our environment.  You can read about the solution here.

This document summarizes Sun support for Sun Java System products when used in conjunction with system virtualization products and features. 

http://docs.sun.com/source/820-4651/index.html

Directory Server Enterprise Edition is part of the Sun Java Identity Management Suite. Both the Native Package installation and Compress Archive installation versions of Directory Server Enterprise Edition are covered by this statement.

These statements are only valid for Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.1 and above.

Please see original security alert notification at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-235381-1

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Sun Java System Directory Server 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, Enterprise Edition

25-Apr-2008

Security Vulnerability in Sun Java System Directory Proxy Server 
May Grant Unauthorized Administrative Access

1. Impact

2. Contributing Factors

3. Symptoms

4. Workaround

5. Resolution

This solution has no attachment

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-235361-1

Please see the above link for the official Sun Alert document.  The below information is provided for quick reference only.  

For additional details please also see previous blog entry on this topic: http://blogs.sun.com/dsee/entry/directory_server_6_2_database

1. Impact

2. Contributing Factors

3. Symptoms

4. Workaround

5. Resolution

• Solaris 9 and 10 with SPARC patch 125276-07 or later
  
• Solaris 9 x86 with patch 125277-07 or later
• Solaris 10 x86 and x64 with patch 125278-07 or later
• Linux with patch 125309-07 or later
• Windows with patch 125311-07 or later

• Solaris 9 and 10 with SPARC patch 126748-04 or later
  
• Solaris 9 x86 with patch 126749-04 or later
  
• Solaris 10 x86 and x64 with patch 126750-04 or later
  
• Linux with patch 126751-04 or later
  
• Windows with patch 126753-04 or later
  
• HP-UX with patch 126752-04 or later

6642430: DB corruption (zero’d pages) when performing db2ldif against large 20GB ldif file.

The sunsolve record for this bug can be found at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-1-6642430-1.

NOTE: This issue does not affect Directory Server 6.0 or 6.1 release so you only need this fix if you are running Directory Server 6.2.

Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2 is no longer available for download and Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3, which includes a fix for this issue, will be available for download early April.  When upgrading to Directory Server 6.3 from 6.2 (not needed if you are on 6.0 or 6.1), make sure you export the database (db2ldif) prior to the upgrade and then re-import the database after the upgrade to fully re-initialize the database and to ensure that no corruption issues remain.

Recommended patch or upgrade procedures:

1. Shut down each directory server instance, as described in Starting, Stopping, and Restarting a Directory Server Instance.

2. Perform an LDIF export of the database, as described in Backing Up to LDIF.

3. Install the hotfix for bug 6642430 on Directory Server 6.2, or upgrade your Directory Server 6.2 instance to Directory Server 6.3 once Directory Server 6.3 is available for download (early April). You will need to login to Sunsolve in order to see this bug description.
   

4. Re-initialize the database from the LDIF exported in step 2, as described in Importing Data From an LDIF File.

   If you are running replicated instances of Directory Server, make sure you read Restoring Replicated Suffixes as well.