For those of you that don't like reading press releases and wonder what all he buzz is about our recently announced Service Oriented Security offerings, Tony Baer from OnStrategies has a great roll-up here.
Nishant Kaushik, one of our key architects, does a fantastic job of boiling down this announcement as follows:
SOS covers the four stages of an application lifecycle - development, deployment, administration and governance. With SOS, organizations can now centralize and externalize security solutions as part of a flexible security architecture. Recent identity related efforts like the Identity Governance Framework are also part of this architecture, providing the ability to deliver privacy-aware applications.
Certainly the key take-away for customers and those building everything from the next bank portal to the next Flickr is that you can get cohesive identity management as a service today, so you're better off crafting your value on top of these services rather than trying to do a better job with identity management fundamentals.
I'm in Seattle for my brother's wedding, so was unable to see Thomas' talk at RSA yesterday. I would love to get some email with first-hand accounts and feedback.
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