OpenAM
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OpenAM is an open source
access management, entitlements and federation
server platform.
ForgeRock announced in February 2010 that they would continue to develop and support OpenSSO
from Sun now that Oracle have chosen to discontinue development on the project. ForgeRock have renamed the product OpenAM as Oracle retain the rights to the name OpenSSO.
ForgeRock have announced that they will continue delivering on Sun Microsystems original roadmap.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
access management, entitlements and federation
Federated identity
A federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems....
server platform.
ForgeRock announced in February 2010 that they would continue to develop and support OpenSSO
OpenSSO
OpenSSO was an open source access management and federation server platform.Oracle completed their acquisition of Sun Microsystems in February 2010 and shortly thereafter removed OpenSSO downloads from their website in an unannounced policy change...
from Sun now that Oracle have chosen to discontinue development on the project. ForgeRock have renamed the product OpenAM as Oracle retain the rights to the name OpenSSO.
ForgeRock have announced that they will continue delivering on Sun Microsystems original roadmap.
Capabilities
- AuthenticationAuthenticationAuthentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity...
- Validation of digital identityDigital identityDigital identity is the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people's experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things... - AuthorizationAuthorizationAuthorization is the function of specifying access rights to resources, which is related to information security and computer security in general and to access control in particular. More formally, "to authorize" is to define access policy...
- Includes enforcement of access policies on network resources - Web Single Sign-OnSingle sign-onSingle sign-on is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them...
(SSO) - Federated identityFederated identityA federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems....