The next OpenSSO community day is being held on May 31st at Moscone Center, San Fransisco. Considering the last OpenSSO unconference that I attended, I am realy looking forward to be there and meet with other people from the community. Also this time around, the agenda includes Sun's other open source identity projects, such as OpenDS and Identity Connectors. All are welcome and attendance is free - details of the upcoming can be found here.
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Friday May 22, 2009
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The first ever OpenSSO community day, held at NYU really rocked!! We got great feedback and suggestions from the community for Entitlements Enforcement. The presentation and other content used can be found here. |
Friday Feb 13, 2009
Coming soon to a computer near you...
I recently started at Sun Microsystems as a Product Manager for OpenSSO, and I could not have been more happy with my first assignment – Entitlements – by far one of coolest product feature in OpenSSO. Entitlements is ready to roll out sometime in the summer. I thought, I'd share some of the excerpts of conversation I had with one of my rather cynical alter ego.
“So what's the big hoopla?? What is Entitlements anyways...”
“Entitlements is the administration, resolution, enforcement, and review of policies that govern access to resources. It addresses the issue of how to extend the solution, to not only protect doorways (access to web applications and web services), but also to protect the objects of those services and determine the authorization of who has access to what.”
"...So, what's the big deal about it? There are so many products in the market that offer Entitlements Solution. Isn't yours just one of them?”
“Not really. Most of the entitlement solutions currently in the market are delivered as a stand alone product, while our model focuses on being a single solution. Let me rephrase for you..It's the only open source solution in the market that provides web access management, federated single sign-on and web services security, Entitlements in a single, self-contained Java application – JUST ONE PRODUCT!! pretty cool, isn't it?”
“Hmm...what else does your product offer?”
“Our Entitlements solution is highly scalable, based on a strong and reliable underlying policy engine. It is also focused on providing optimal performance – We support about 1 Million polices in the application.”
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“Anything more?” “We have extensively collaborated with our customers and the OpenSSO community to make our product human readable, and easy to use. There is no need for an expert level developer or an admin to configure it. Our newly designed interface has an easy policy creation tool with drag and drop capability to create complex policies. Creating a Policy or adding a resource could not have been easier. Check it out!!! Besides that, our entitlements solution is not only admin focused but also has a developer focus. Meaning that a developer can define resources and object and enable objects for authorization decisions in the application. |
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“WOH!! Looks like, you guys really have a cool product. Really really cool product!!!! Where's my popcorn?”
