The summary of a webcast on Building a Secure Cloud with Identity Management provides links to the archived webcast itself. Brian Baird of SaskTel points out how customers can employ the SaskTel architectural model, which makes it simple to consume Identity Management as a service from the SaskTel cloud. SaskTel also makes it simple to bring cloud services back in house, he adds. In addition, Baird suggests that the SaskTel Identity Management Center of Excellence is designed to make it easy to consume critical capabilities offered by the Oracle Identity Management stack such as workflows, self service provisioning etc.
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In his post on Solaris 11 compliance with DISA Security guidelines Jim Laurent cautions readers not to construe his comments as a declaration of compliance by either Oracle or DISA but rather a casual review of Solaris 11 against current DISA Security Guidelines. Laurent notes that an issue raised in his review a year ago has now -- with the release of Solaris 11 -- been fixed. That was the inability to mount /var as a separate file system as the scripts require. The default installation now automatically sets of /var as a separate ZFS data set, Laurent writes.
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A recent Independent Oracle Users Group Data Security Survey found 60% expect the likelihood of a data breach or at least are not sure what to expect over the next 12 months. Oracle's Security Inside Out site has posted a video on data security that illustrates the different ways organizations are susceptible to security breaches that Oracle can help mitigate. The video features actors portraying an oil company CEO and an Eastern Block exfiltrator in a scenario suggesting that major infiltrations are easier than one might assume. Oracle Audit Vault is offered as a safeguard against such damage.
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A new whitepaper is now available from My Oracle Support that outlines common security requirements for industries and markets and outlines the solution that can be implemented using native facilities from the Oracle Utilities Application Framework and/or Oracle Identity Management Suite. Anthony Shorten blogs that the Oracle Utilities Application Framework contains security facilities that can be used standalone or in conjunction with components of Oracle Identity Management Suite to provide a complete solution. The whitepaper itself is designed to inform partners and customers of common security requirements and where the Oracle Utilities Application Framework facilities can best be used and where inclusion of components of Oracle Identity Management Suite can be used as well to meet those requirements. Registration and login are required at My Oracle Support and the whitepaper is available at Doc Id: 1375615.1.
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The new Intel Westmere microprocessor has six new instructions to accelerate AES encryption, Dan Anderson blogs. They are called "AESNI" for "AES New Instructions," and are unprivileged instructions, so no "root", other elevated access, or context switch is required to execute these instructions. These instructions are used in a new built-in OpenSSL 1.0 engine available in Solaris 11, the aesni engine. The combination of these solutions makes e-commerce cryptographic operations easier and lower in cost, Anderson contends. He identifies the six instructions and discusses their use with the Oracle Solaris 11 and OpenSSL software optimizations.
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With release of the latest version of its Oracle Identity Analytics (OIA), a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and the Oracle Identity Management 11g product family, Oracle has made it possible for its customers to gain simplified access review certification with business-centric views and actionable dashboards, powered by rich identity analytics, all of which helps to reduce errors in the certification process and increase user productivity by up to 80 percent.
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