Stories about: ClearTrust

Identity vendors Trustgenix and IdentityForge said Monday they would integrate their software to allow users to incorporate mainframe identities into single sign-on projects.

Not only can the right identity management system save you money, it can make users happy and improve your secutiry. Deborah Radcliff collects some tips from the experts

The OASIS Internet standards consortium said Monday that its members ratified SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) Version 1.1 as an official standard, approving changes to the specification will improve interoperability with other Web services security standards.

RSA Security Inc. has upgraded its ClearTrust server software for policy-based access to Web applications, adding support for Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) 1.1 and identity-management features licensed from Thor Technologies Inc.

RSA Security Inc. said that it has formed a strategic alliance with enterprise provisioning company Thor Technologies Inc. to add Thor's user provisioning technology to RSA's ClearTrust Web access management product.

Software vendors are introducing a slew of products that aim to reduce the growing complexity of managing user identities and controlling access to applications scattered across internal and external systems.

Entrust and RSA Security unveiled new products and initiatives this week designed to hammer home the message that both companies intend to leverage existing security technology and development efforts to construct a comprehensive Web services security infrastructure for customers.

RSA Security announced Wednesday the integration of its RSA ClearTrust product with PeopleSoft Inc.'s PeopleSoft 8 Web-based enterprise application suite. The collaboration is intended to provide improved security and identity management capabilities to the PeopleSoft 8 product line, while also tying the PeopleSoft suite closer to other third party Web applications, according to a statement released by RSA.

Quadrasis next month will release a gateway designed to let corporations securely pass Web services traffic internally and over their firewalls.

Attempting to soothe enterprise headaches over identity management complexity, an emerging set of Web services-based standards and technologies are surfacing to offer a unified approach to managing diverse infrastructures.

RSA Security Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a joint sales, engineering and marketing agreement Thursday to integrate several of their network security products, an alliance the companies say will offer customers a complete security package and help administrators protect services and assets accessible through the Internet.