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Phone: +49 89 31 76 0
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Internet: http://www.microsoft.com/IDA

Microsoft's Identity and Access solutions are a set of platform technologies and products that are designed to help organizations manage user identities and associated access privileges. With a focus on security and ease of use, these solutions help businesses boost productivity, reduce IT costs, and eliminate the complexity of identity and access management.

Identity Management
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 provides an integrated and comprehensive solution for managing the entire lifecycle of user identities and their associated credentials. It provides identity synchronization, certificate and password management, and user provisioning in a single solution that works across Microsoft Windows and other organizational systems. As a result, IT organizations can define and automate the processes used to manage identities from creation to retirement.

Federated Identity
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) provides the interoperability required to simplify the broad, federated sharing of digital identities and policies across organizational boundaries. Seamless yet secure, customers, partners, suppliers, and mobile employees can all securely gain access to the information they need, when they need it.

Strong Authentication
Windows Certificate Services (CS) provides an integrated public key infrastructure that enables the secure exchange of information. With strong security and easy administration across the Internet, extranets, intranets, and applications, CS provides customizable services for issuing and managing the certificates used in software security systems employing public key technologies.

Information Protection
Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) in Windows Server 2008 helps safeguard digital information from unauthorized use — both online and offline, inside and outside of the firewall.

Directory Services
Windows Server Active Directory is already used by companies around the world to gain unified management of identities and resources across the enterprise network. Active Directory enables organizations to centrally manage and track information about users and their privileges. In addition, Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (ADLDS), an LDAP directory service, provides organizations with flexible support for directory-enabled applications. Integration with Microsoft Federated Identity, Strong Authentication, Information Protection and Identity Lifecycle Management solutions, makes Active Directory an ideal foundation for building a comprehensive identity and access solution

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Vendor Research Note: Microsoft® Cloud Security - 70126 29.08.2011 Mike Small €195.00: This document is an evaluation of Microsoft’s Windows Azure™ Cloud platform from a security perspective. This platform allows organizations to build Cloud applications which are then hosted in the worldwide network of Microsoft datacenters. It also allows organizations to host existing applications that run under Windows Server 2008 and certain types of data in these Microsoft datacenters. Microsoft has put considerable thought into meeting the security challenges of Cloud computing and incorporated solutions to these challenges in their offering. Many organizations are moving towards a Cloud model to optimize the procurement of IT services from both internal and external suppliers. The Cloud is not a single model but covers a wide spectrum ranging from applications shared between multiple tenants to virtual servers used by a single customer. The information security risks associated with Cloud computing depend upon both the service model and the delivery model...

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Product Brief: Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 05.05.2009 Felix Gaehtgens €95.00: On Monday the 23rd of March, Microsoft announced that it would - again - delay the launch of ILM 2, the "Identity Lifecycle Manager". The release was now pushed back one whole year, to give Microsoft more time to "validate ILM in long-running live deployments before release". As can be expected, this announcement has caused a considerable amount of reactions, ranging from delight to frustration. The blogosphere and newswires soaked up the news and were buzzing with comments, and even outright speculation. Kuppinger Cole has been asked by journalists to provide an opinion as well, and after some time of talking to different parties and watching the reactions, and circling back to Microsoft, we wanted to give our quick take on how the product actually stands within its competitive field, what this delay is about and what it may mean for customers, the industry and Microsoft itself. As of 17 April 2009, Microsoft has announced a new name for what used to...

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