Sun Extends Leadership In Identity Management

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (www.sun.com), today highlighted continued success across its identity management initiatives through new customer relationships and expanded alliances.

"Identity management is a key service that allows companies to cost-effectively and securely manage identities for accessing IT and corporate resources," said Earl Perkins, vice president, security and risk strategies, META Group.

In addition, Sun has positioned identity management as a key component of its overall software strategy and has aligned its organization, product strategy, and dedicated global sales force to address this growing business concern for its customers and prospects worldwide.

The Sun identity management suite Management&tab=3 provides organizations with visibility into and control over the way critical corporate assets are accessed and shared, while delivering high service levels affordably.

It is uniquely suited to meet the challenges of the virtual enterprise by allowing organizations to open access to employees, partners and customers and at the same time, protect its mission-critical systems.

Lacking these controls, organizations leave themselves open to security breaches, regulatory compliance issues, inefficiencies in operations and productivity losses.

Since the launch of its identity management suite in June 2004, Sun has seen significant sales activity across the product line, resulting in over 75 new customer purchases.

These new customers consist of leading companies across a variety of industries including: education, financial services, government, manufacturing, telecommunications, and utilities.

In addition, Sun is working with independent software vendors (ISVs) such as Entrust, who is integrating and bundling the Sun Java(tm) System Identity Manager with the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution.