Security and Identity Management

Partners and Communities

Partners

• Layer 7 Technologies markets a family of XML appliances and software to secure, simplify and scale Web services. Web services are applications that can expose their functionality to other applications over the Internet using standards based XML data formats like SOAP, REST, AJAX, and RSS. Modern service oriented application integration models and Web oriented application delivery models depend on effectively addressing the performance, security, complexity, reliability and availability issues inherent in sharing Web services with other applications. Layer 7 Technologies therefore aims to provide the essential application oriented security and networking infrastructure to enable Service-oriented and Web-oriented architectures (i.e. SOA and Web 2.0) that are central to the next wave of Internet and software innovation.
  
• imX Solutions, Inc. - an acronym for Internet money exchange - offers the next generation solution in the field of online user identification and security. imX offers a powerful two-factor authentication solution that delivers security and protection for employees, whether they access your corporate network via dial up, VPN, Web access, Wireless LAN or Secure Virtual Desktop.
  
• SecuGen FDA sensors are fingerprint sensors sold as components to manufacturers and OEM developers. FDA sensors are complete stand-alone fingerprint recognition systems that include SecuGen's patented SEIR™ optic modules and CPUs embedded with SecuGen's image capture, minutiae extraction (template generating) and matching algorithms.
• Astaro’s innovative use of “best of breed” open source and proprietary technology, the proven security of a Linux platform and an intuitive management interface has resulted in the ability to provide the most powerful, easy-to-use and secure UTM appliance on the market with the lowest total cost of ownership. The full line of Astaro appliances and management tools provide protection from the latest and most sophisticated security threats, reporting and analysis, simplified management and offer a flexible, scalable and cost effective solution that protects corporate networks of all sizes. Complete, in depth security from Astaro offers the ability to control access to your networks, guarantee availability, achieve data integrity and ensure compliance.

Communities

• Bandit is a system of loosely-coupled components to provide consistent identity services. It implements open standard protocols and specifications such that identity services can be constructed, accessed, and integrated from multiple identity sources. The Bandit system supports many authentication methods and provides user-centric credential management. On this base of a common identity model, Bandit is building additional services needed for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and for the emission of records to verify compliance with higher level policies.
• The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides free and easy access to openSUSE. Here you will find a community of users and developers, who all have the same goal in mind—to create and distribute the world's most usable Linux.
• Users, administrators and developers share their secrets in this online community, which offers articles, tips, Q and A, and free tools to download. Don't reinvent the wheel—check here first to see if someone else has been there, done that.