Well, my friends, it is time for me to say goodbye. It’s been a wonderful 5 years at Sun. As many probably suspected, I will not be joining the Oracle Identity team.

These past five years have been the best professional experiences in my life. I had a blast working with the Java Enterprise System team and Sun’s systems management team, but nothing beats my experience working with the most talented Identity Management team in the world. Oracle is inheriting THE BEST Identity products available and I wish them luck on their strategy and direction.

Although I’m very happy that this process has finally come to a close, I am sad to see Sun fading away. I believe the environment that Sun fostered was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I appreciate the experience and have tremendous gratitude for all that it offered me.

Since I host my own blog now, I will continue to blog here about everything identity. Also, If you want to keep in touch, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

Our Sun identity heroine, SuperPat, recently wrote a nice blog on a new feature in OpenSSO Express 8 — Simple Microsoft Active Directory configuration. Download Express 8 to test it out. We’ve removed a few steps to make using AD as an identity store reaaaaaaaaaally easy. Have fun.

It’s heeeeeere!

Have you heard colleagues talking about OAuth, but don’t understand how it can be used in the real world? Are you looking for lightweight solutions to federate with Java and .NET apps? Would you like to offer multi-factor authentication without having to purchase token hardware for all your employees?
Watch this FREE webinar and learn how Sun Microsystems, Inc. is innovating in these areas and many more to provide simple, pragmatic solutions in a single product. You’ll learn how the latest release of OpenSSO can help you secure all your core resources with a single product regardless of whether your resources are internal, external or in the cloud.

If you have a spare hour tomorrow (Wednesday August 18th 2009) morning, join me as I will be presenting a webinar titled OpenSSO Express for Improved SSO. The webinar is at 10am PDT/1pm EDT/7pm CET for an update on the very latest features in OpenSSO Express 8 and beyond, such as mobile one-time passwords, the Fedlet for .Net, and SalesForce.com integration. We will also be previewing our OAuth Token Service.

OpenSSO is now part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) CONNECT Architecture. CONNECT implements a flexible, open-source gateway solution that enables healthcare entities – Federal agencies or private-sector health organizations or networks – to connect their existing health information systems to the NHIN.
As part of CONNECT, OpenSSO acts as the:
1) Authentication Service for citizen registration
2) Policy Enforcement Point
3) and one of two choices for a pluggable Policy Decision Point
Read about OpenSSO and the CONNECT Reference Architecture here!

Theeeeeeeey’re heeeeeeeeere . . .

Check out the preview of our new OAuth Token Service. You can now use REST and the OAuth Token Service for securing your apps. It’s a nice, light-weight alternative to WS*.

Nice video by resident slacker / sales engineer Paul Walker on how the Sun Identity Management suite can complement Sun’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The demo shows how Sun can provide the whole stack from the operating system, smartcards, SunRay thin client device, desktop delivery mechanism and Identity Management (IdM) to offer a complete and secure VDI solution. The products used in this demo include the following (in no particular order) . . .
* Sun OpenSSO Enteprise
* Sun Identity Manager
* Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition
* SunRay Server
* Sun Secure Global Desktop
* Sun VirtualBox
* Sun VDI
* OpenSolaris 2008.11

Our first community iPhone app, POSSO, is now available for download. Great to see people thinking about how to leverage the iPhone App Store for Identity and Access Management innovation. Although POSSO is a pretty basic app it does make your mind start to think about other tools that could be created. If I was an IT Admin, I’d love to be able to see my monitoring data on my iPhone. Imagine being able to check on the fly the # of logins per minute, or number of concurrent users, or # of users provisioned in a day. Pretty funky stuff. Check out POSSO and enjoy.