What has over 40,000,000 users, 1,000,000 logins per day, and peaks at 4,000 logins per minute? Verizon’s OpenSSO deployment, that’s what!
At Gartner’s Identity & Access Management Conference in Orlando this past fall, Verizon presented on how OpenSSO is being used to support Verizon.net. This is a great example of an IAM deployment that scales beyond belief.
The presentation shows how Sun’s OpenSSO and Directory Server work together to provide unparalleled, mission critical service and scale. The cool thing about the preso is that Verizon also highlights that they replicated this deployment in less than 2 months to support 25 million users at Verizon Broadband! Wowza!
Download the presentation and enjoy the video below!

As Grand Poobah of Identity Festivities, I’d to invite all Gartner IAM attendees to join the Sun Identity Management Team and Accenture Team to an after-hours party in the Kingpin Suite at Bloomsbury Lanes where you can:
* Enjoy delicious food and beverages
* Bowl (top scoring bowler at the end of the night wins a prize pak)
* Play pool and table tennis
* Show off your Karaoke skills
* Enter an onsite raffle to win a Wii console with WiiSports. Must be present to win.
When: Monday, March 23rd from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Where: Kingpin Suite at Bloomsbury Lanes (basement of Tavistock Hotel on Bedford Way)
RSVP before March 20th and your cab fare to the party is on us! Gartner IAM Badge Required for Entry!
Look forward to seeing you there!
RSVP NOW!

The Sun Identity Team is kicking off a monthly webinar program outlining our overall portfolio and how it can help you solve everyday identity challenges. The first session will be held on February 18 at 8AM PT and will provide an overview around how Sun approaches everyday identity and offer an overview of our methodology to build strong identity foundation that lasts. So . . . what are you waiting for! Register for our life changing webinar now!

Great news! Anyone who registers and attends our OpenSSO Community Day in Munich will qualify for a 20% discount to the European Identity Conference (EIC), also in Munich. Our community day is on May 5 during the EIC preconference events and EIC officially begins on May 6.
To take advantge of this offer, all you need to do is register for our OpenSSO Community Day at Meeetup.com and register for EIC. The discount code to get 20% off is OPENSSO. We will be passing an attendance list to Kuppinger-Cole so you need to show-up to our community day to get this discount.

“Ohhhh, it’s been a long journey from Munich to Minsk, Rochelle, Rochelle!”
You asked and we listened . . . OpenSSO Community Day 2.0 will be held in Munich for all of our European OpenSSO friends to attend for FREE!!! Hosted by our colleages at Kuppinger Cole, this event will be held during the European Identity Conference 2009 at the Deutschen Museum in Munich, Germany and sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This is another opportunity for OpenSSO contributors, deployers and users to come together in an informal ‘unconference‘ setting.
Being an unconference, the only rigid item on the agenda will be to decide at 9am on the sessions for the rest of the day. You can show up and talk about any OpenSSO-related topic you like. Maybe you have an interesting deployment, a new extension or a nagging question – sessions can be discussions as much as presentations. Now, that doesn’t mean that there need be zero preparation – if you have a session in mind, go to the wiki and add it there, so folks can get an idea of the likely content ahead of time. We’ve already posted a few ideas.
All are welcome, attendance is free, and lunch will be provided. We’ll likely adjourn to a nearby bar at the end of the day to continue the conversation
We’re using meetup.com to manage the registration process – just join the OpenSSO group and RSVP!

A few weeks ago I did a customer webinar to about 150+ people on OpenSSO with Jamie Nelson, my engineering brother in arms. The preso outlines our direction over the next 12 months. Check it out. No muppet songs in this video.

Due to early demand, the OpenSSO Community Day @ NYU has super sized to a larger room so that we can hold up to 75 participants! So . . . if you are working on an access management, federation, or a secure web services project using OpenSSO or are just interested in learning about open source web access management tools then sign-up before the registration fills! First come, first served!
I have to admit that when we were planning this event we thought the first event would be quite small. Maaaaaaaan were we wrong. People are really excited about our first community event and it’s sparked some ideas on doing more events in other regions — stay tuned Europa!
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At the end of last week, I did a write-up on how we are extending OpenSSO to include Service-Level Monitoring. Today I’d like to talk about 1x Password capabilities that we are adding to OpenSSO.
One time passwords are used when an organization wants a higher level of authentication for users trying to access a web application. That is, they want to require a second way to authenticate users, such as a physical token card, besides simply entering a user name and password. This is commonly seen in the financial services sector when trying to access bank accounts or when accessing a corporate intranet remotely.
The challenge with physical token cards is that they tend to be expensive to purchase and disseminate. As an alternative, we are in the process of adding capabilities to OpenSSO that allows a user to obtain a 1x password via your mobile phone (i.e. – using SMS text messages). This is not a replacement for traditional multi-factor authentication solutions, but rather a lightweight alternative for those that don’t want to buy a robust offering to complement their web access management solution. The key benefit of this solution is that organizations will be able to lower operational expenses by allowing consumers to use their cell phones as a physical token device rather than buying a separate piece of hardware.
Above is a video of what we are building. The solution uses Open Authentication (OATH) to do standards-based strong authentication. It’s still rough, but this will give you a taste of what we are building.