Microsoft is a leading provider of identity and access products, technologies and solutions. Since being founded in 1975, Microsoft has continuously worked to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we provide solutions that help enable our customers to comply with various regulations, grow their businesses, increase operational efficiency while reducing costs, and strengthen their security by reducing risk. Your potential. Our passion™. For more www.microsoft.com.

Only Novell offers fully integrated IT management services for your complex enterprise wide challenges. Novell identity, access, and security management solutions integrate identity management processes with access rights and automation to efficiently provide your users with access to the right resources at the right time, while Novell security solutions automate the process of collecting, analyzing, and reporting on user activities. Customers can deploy Novell technologies directly — or through our global network of partners — and be free to focus on the innovation and high-quality service that drive their businesses forward.

AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations and offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services. The AOL Developer Network, available at dev.aol.com, provides third-party developers with direct access to AOL's technology platforms and open APIs. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC is based in Dulles, Virginia and has operations across Europe, Asia, and North America.

Serving as the security backbone for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Identity Management helps customers and partners decrease security threats across diverse IT environments while helping address governance, risk and compliance needs. Oracle Identity Management's support of industry standards such as WS*, XACML, SAML and SPML help enable customers and partners to more easily integrate applications with the framework. The family of best-in-class software, which can be used in its entirety or as individual components, includes Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite, Oracle Identity Federation and Oracle Web Services Manager. To learn more, visit http://www.oracle.com/identity.

Established in 2000 by the largest manufacturers in the world, Covisint is a leader in providing secure interoperability as a service. Supporting a growing community of more than 250,000 users, representing 30,000 companies in 86 countries, the Covisint technology platform represents the next generation in collaborative, service oriented architecture. Combining advanced portal functionality with a unique "Trusted Identity Broker" service; B2B messaging and web-enabled software services, Covisint enables companies to extend existing technology investments, improve time to market, reduce cost and increase customer satisfaction. Covisint - helping people and systems work better together.

Computer Sciences Corporation is one of the world's leading information IT services companies. CSC's mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.

With approximately 77,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC's own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web and application hosting; and management consulting. For more information, visit www.csc.com.

Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Security & Privacy Services offers services to help companies with their information risk management initiatives. We work to advance and evolve security solutions, improve enterprise security and value, and develop risk aware programs and processes. For a full list of services visit us online at www.deloitte.com/us/security.

SailPoint helps organizations to reduce compliance costs, strengthen internal controls and manage risks associated with user access to enterprise resources. SailPoint Compliance IQ combines risk analytics with role management, automated access certifications, policy enforcement, and activity monitoring proactively focusing internal controls to reduce risk and improve compliance performance. Visit www.sailpoint.com.

Sun's comprehensive portfolio of identity management solutions are delivering secure, auditable access to the right information at the right time for billions of people. We're helping organizations to protect sensitive information, to meet compliance regulations and to deliver new online services. As the market leader, our solutions have simplified the process of managing user identities around the world.

Today’s threats are no longer just associated with the device; they are focused on obtaining sensitive information and transaction data. With Security 2.0, Symantec’s mission is to deliver next generation security solutions with protection that revolves around you to ensure security for today’s increasingly sensitive online interactions and safety from malicious threats and crimeware.

Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information, and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance, and performance. Symantec has operations in 40 countries.

Aveksa provides the only comprehensive, enterprise-class, access governance, risk management and compliance solution. Aveksa automates the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles; enables metrics-driven role discovery and lifecycle management; and delivers unmatched visibility into the true state of user access rights. With Aveksa, business, security and compliance teams can effectively collaborate and enforce accountability. Our growing customer base includes leading organizations in financial services, healthcare and manufacturing.

CA is a recognized leader in enterprise IT security and management software. CA offers comprehensive and integrated security management solutions that enable organizations to align security with corporate business processes, achieve operational efficiency, enable regulatory compliance, mitigate operational risk, ensure service continuity, and enable business growth. CA solutions address the entire spectrum of security challenges, including identity and access management, threat management, and security information and event management. CA security management solutions are in use today by the majority of the Fortune 500, helping these leading organizations reduce the complexity and cost of their security management while protecting critical corporate systems and data and enabling business growth.

Centeris® solutions improve management and interoperability of Windows, Linux, and UNIX systems with easy to use software for Linux administration and cross-platform identity management. Our products, Likewise Admin and Likewise Identity, provide familiar Windows-based tools for system administrators to easily configure server roles and seamlessly integrate Linux and UNIX systems with Microsoft Active Directory. This enables companies running mixed networks to utilize existing Windows skills/resources, maximize the value of their Active Directory investment, strengthen the security of their network and lower Linux server TCO. Visit www.centeris.com to learn about how our solutions can help solve your interoperability challenges.

Courion is the Enterprise Provisioning and Access Compliance Expert for results-driven organizations. Courion's software solutions streamline operations and automate business processes. For more information, go to www.courion.com.

Encentuate is a leading provider of identity and access management solutions that enable enterprises to automate access to corporate assets, strengthen security, and enforce compliance across all end-points. Through a user-centric approach, Encentuate delivers enterprise single sign-on, strong authentication, session management, workflow automation, and centralized admin and audit capabilities, without requiring changes to existing IT infrastructure. Encentuate is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif. and has offices across North America and in Singapore. Encentuate's customers span a range of industries, including healthcare, biotechnology, manufacturing, government and financial services. SC Magazine named Encentuate the best identity management solution in 2007 and the best single sign-on and two-factor authentication solution in 2006. More information about Encentuate is available at www.encentuate.com.

Founded in 1995, NetVision, Inc. is the pioneering developer of best practice identity management controls. Deployed in over 1000 enterprises, the firm is focused on automating audit and security processes for diverse identity management infrastructure. NetVision's unified platform integrates regulatory compliant policy definition, real-time event monitoring, periodic information audit and remediation. NetVision customers benefit from reduced costs, improved audit integrity and lower risk.

Omada is a leading Microsoft Solution Provider in Advanced Role Based Access Control (RBAC) empowering Microsoft technologies such as ILM and AD. Omada’s innovative RBAC solution is built entirely on the Microsoft platform. The award winning solution delivers Advanced Role Based Access Control, Compliance Reporting and Audit Trails, Self Service, Delegated Administration, Segregation of Duties, and Workflow with Approvals. The solution helps organizations achieve compliance and improve efficiency. Established in 1999, Omada has operations in Europe and North America and delivers its solutions solely through a network of strategic partners (System Integrators). Omada’s reference list encompasses several well known large corporations such as BMW, Bayer, Maersk and ECCO. For more information visit www.omada.net.

Ping Identity is uniquely dedicated to delivering Internet-Scale Identity management software and services to organizations and individuals worldwide. Over 100 large enterprises, service providers and government agencies rely on PingFederate, the industry benchmark for standards-based federated identity management, to secure, protect and control their identity interactions with other organizations. Now, SignOn.com brings these same capabilities to individuals. For more information, please visit www.pingidentity.com.

Radiant Logic, Inc. is the leading provider of Identity Virtualization and Integration solutions for Identity Management. RadiantOne is a flexible identity service for authentication, authorization, and federation that enables enterprises to leverage their existing identity assets to quickly deploy security, provisioning, portal, and data integration projects. Companies and organizations such as Discover Financial, Disney, US Federal Reserve Bank, Telecom Italia, and DISA use the RadiantOne solution to speed deployment, reduce custom integration costs and adapt to changing business requirements by providing unified access to heterogeneous sources as well as identity reconciliation and bi-directional synchronization capabilities.

Securent's Entitlement Management Solution (EMS) enables organizations to secure sensitive applications and data with ease and precision. Securent EMS is the first proven XACML standard-based solution that allows organizations to create, enforce, review, and audit fine-grained access policies across heterogeneous application and IT environments distributed throughout the enterprise, all with centralized management and visibility. The significant cost, time to market, and compliance benefits of EMS have been proven at many Fortune 500 customers. Securent's product and market leadership have been recognized by leading industry analyst firms such as Gartner, Burton Group, and Forrester.

Vaau is a thought leader in the areas of role engineering, role management and identity compliance, enabling organizations to enforce internal security control policies and automate critical processes using a combination of award-winning software and proven implementation methodologies. Vaau’s RBACx offering is a comprehensive management solution that enables companies to proactively enforce internal security control policies and automate critical identity management processes. RBACx allows enterprises to manage the lifecycle of identities from role definition through the ongoing and continuous process of auditing and certifying what resources users can access and what users should not be able to access.

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