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By Chip Brookshaw
Enterprise networks today reach all over the globe, and a variety of users require access to them, including employees, contractors and partners that require access to corporate information assets. Many of these users are outside the internal security domain yet must have transparent access to services to transact business or share information. It is important—even critical—to business operations that the network reaches all of them, but the risks of unauthorised, even fraudulent, use are high. Providing access while protecting assets is a challenge that organisations have to meet in order to operate their businesses securely.
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The new risks of expanded network reach add to the need for strong identity management in order to ensure that people accessing the network are who they claim to be, and doing what they should be doing. In addition, government regulations concerning identity continue to expand, and stronger corporate policy management that impacts issues from human resource policies to intellectual property management also require strong identity management. And every organisation faces these challenges in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC).
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Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Nick Crown explores the hype around GRC.
Identity-related access and security controls can be instituted as part of an IT framework for GRC.
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The Growing Challenge of GRC
To meet the increasing need for GRC solutions, Sun is introducing Sun Role Manager, which is based on the RBACx product from Vaau, a company Sun acquired in February 2008. Sun Role Manager gives companies the tools they need to address issues relating to GRC across the organisation, and it complements Sun’s other identity management products. “We have incredible strength in identity management,” says Herring. “Now, with role management technology, we can help enterprises with access control compliance, which is a critical part of GRC initiatives.”
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Adding GRC functionality to an already overburdened IT infrastructure can be a costly, manual process that strains staff and other resources. Sun Role Manager gives companies an effective tool to deal with the challenges of access control compliance because role management allows companies to manage access according to business roles rather than identification of individual entitlements assigned to users. Sun Role Manager handles natural business processes smoothly by automating and streamlining access control and policy enforcement, and thus reducing the cost of compliance.
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What is Role Management?
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Sun’s acquisition of Vaau combines leading-edge role management software with the expertise and experience of a global technology leader. As the demands of GRC threaten to consume ever more time and resources, Sun Role Manager helps keep IT a step ahead. In addition to its technical strengths, Sun Role Manager is a smart choice because it is part of Sun’s industry-leading identity management portfolio.
Chip Brookshaw has been reporting on Sun technology for more than seven years.
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