The Sun Identity Management team will be giving a webinar next Wednesday to discuss the very important topic of Identity Management and healthcare. As the healthcare legislation moves through congress the increase of 36M patients on healthcare providers, insurance companies, and patients will be profound. The cost savings projected by the bills will rely on IT systems to provide increased access to information to drive productivity gains. As we have seen with recent high profile identity security breeches at hospitals identity security is critical in making sure the right people have access to the appropriate information, that information must be shared with all members of the value chain securely.
Sun's Identity Management Suite provides a powerful package of solutions to help with storing identity information with Directory Server Enterprise Edition; managing authorization, federation and web services security with OpenSSO; providing provisioning solutions with Identity Manager; and, defining and managing role based access control with Role Manager.
Join this free Webinar to learn how Sun's identity management solutions can help your organization to:
Automate management of digital identities for other providers, patients, physicians, clinicians, and payors Provide single sign-on (SSO) and secure federated access to privacy-regulated healthcare information while adhering to strict mandates
Comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), internal security policies, and corporate governance policies with complete auditing and reporting capabilities
Sun identity management solutions make it easier for healthcare organizations to manage and share digital information.
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 using 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
12:30 - 2:30pm Mat Hamlin showcasing Identity
Manager
Tuesday, Nov 10th
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
Identity management in government is a very important topic as it crosses a number of domains. There are a number of issues as government's across the world pursue e-Government initiatives. Norway is a great example as they have launched a portal to allow citizens to opt into services that they wish to consume from the government (e.g. postal, doctor, etc.). The government portal in Norway uses OpenSSO. This is only one of the ways in which Sun is helping governments further information sharing and reduce the cost of providing citizens and organizations the services they need to be successful.
If you are interested in hearing more about the different way's Sun can help governments help solve Identity Management issues such as the following, please attend the following webinar.
Secure control over information access by dynamic and diverse user populations
Single sign-on and identity federation for seamless operations across multiple IT environments
Automated provisioning and deprovisioning to reduce costs
Delegrated and self-service account management to improve the user experience
Auditing and reporting to meet internal security and compliance requirements
This week has been a lot of fun. I spent the week in Las Vegas with a great team of Sales Engineers, Software Engineers from Federation Access Manager and our product marketing team. The goal of the event was to create three customer focused demo's to illustrate how Federation Access Manager can be used by our customers. I recently moved from the xVM Ops Center team to the Access Manager product marketing team so this was my first opportunity to meet the extended team. What a talented team.
Terry did a great job of preparing the team for the event by holding several meetings prior to arriving in Las Vegas. The team worked on developing high-level use cases. Once in Vegas the team gelled quickly getting to work using agile processes and programming methods to get something tangible to demo via the first day. I have attended other events with similar objectives and they have not been as productive. What was really impressive was the hand on nature and knowledge sharing that occurred between the three critical constituencies. The team did blow off some steam at ESPN Zone and Jay-z's new club 40/40. Everyone left thinking "I wish I could have one of those screens for my superbowl party".
As Pat Patterson pointed out in his blog earlier in the week here, a number of the team already blog so you can get access to the latest mindshare of the team.
Lastly, if you are interested in hearing an interesting review of Ping Identity Daniel Raskin was able to put together a great podcast with Ping himself.
The Sun Identity Management team will be giving a webinar next Wednesday to discuss the very important topic of Identity Management and healthcare. As the healthcare legislation moves through congress the increase of 36M patients on healthcare providers, insurance companies, and patients will be profound. The cost savings projected by the bills will rely on IT systems to provide increased access to information to drive productivity gains. As we have seen with recent high profile identity security breeches at hospitals identity security is critical in making sure the right people have access to the appropriate information, that information must be shared with all members of the value chain securely.
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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 
government's across the world pursue e-Government initiatives. 
at team of Sales Engineers, Software Engineers from Federation Access Manager and our product marketing team. The goal of the event was to create three customer focused demo's to illustrate how Federation Access Manager can be used by our customers. I recently moved from the xVM Ops Center team to the Access Manager product marketing team so this was my first opportunity to meet the extended team. What a talented team.
