Novell Helps Federal Agencies Go Beyond Basic HSPD-12 Requirements with
Enhanced Identity Assurance Solution
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| Novell today announced it has expanded its Identity Assurance solution
| for the federal government, adding a critical identity management
| foundation to help federal agencies better meet Homeland Security
| Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) requirements.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060912/sftu059.html?.v=67
Novell introduced the first Open Source identity management software, IIRC
[1,2]. And the US government has begun craving Open Source [3].
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[1] Unmasking Novell's identity plans
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| Put it all together and you could log on to a Linux workstation
| securely, using a smartcard and LDAP and have your name and
| credentials captured by CASA.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/07/17/novell_bandit_identity/
[2] The Bandit Project: another open source identity management move from
Novell
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| This is not the first open source identity management initiative but
| the involvement of identity management heavyweight Novell is significant.
| The fact that the project is focussing on higher-level identity
| management issues gives it added significance.
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http://www.it-analysis.com/technology/security/content.php?cid=8543
[3] Defense Department Marches Towards Open Source
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| In a new initiative to spur more use of open source software (OSS) within
| the US Defense Department, the department's Office of Advanced Systems
| and Concepts (AS&C) has begun teaming up with Red Hat, Novell, IBM,
| Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and AMD--along with big systems integrators
| and "non-traditional" open source companies--to glean insights that will
| help shorten the learning curve to deployment.
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6289/1/
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