What is BSI according to Germany?

What is BSI according to Germany?

BSI is a kind of organization in Germany which is equivalent to NSA in USA. It is trying to provide standards and guidelines to all the government organizations as well as private organizations in their country. The countrymen who designed Enigma now have an organization something like NSA. Does that mean we are going to see new algorithms replacing Triple-DES etc?

Also there is a new framework coming up from SOx especially for Europe called the EuroSOx. People argue it would be similar, however.

CEC - SIM v7.x?

Are you hanging with any version other than 7_1_1???? If you are then get ready to be completely outdated soon. Yes you got it right ... it Sun Identity Manager 8.0 set to release very soon.

I have written the new features of 7.1 after it got released. This time I have the privilege of writing about 8.0 even before its release. The top best feature of this version would be Role Management.

Features:

Flexible Role Modelling
Bi - Level RBAC
Business Roles
IT Roles
Also provision for Multilevel RBAC
Offers Role Subtypes, defaults being Business, IT, Application and Asset
New Sub-Types can be created
Extended attributes on Role Subtypes

Now you will also be able to search on Role Subtypes, for example "all application roles" etc.

New Role Features ...

Activation:

• Required: Get activated directly
• Conditional: Rule based, i.e. if the user object is getting an update and it requires few other privileges then it is allocated
• Manual: Implicit
  

Role start date and End date: What other granularity can one ask for?

Role Change Approval Process: If the actual Role definition itself is set to change then it should go through an approval process.

These are very few of the amazing features of 8.0. Keep waiting for it to release.

SUN Identity Manager rocks.

CEC - The Professional Services Party

Wow ...

All these days it used to be like only me and harini working for SUN IdM PS-India and few interactions with people in the same in US. Only know by name.

Today Arun Shresta, my practice head threw a party to all the PS folks. I met, Rene Ugarte, Mark, Steve Hulme, Chris Timmerman - the geek, Tiffany Ryan, Greg Buchanan, Sharif, Manish Chopra and many other.

It was kind of home after meeting all these senior guys and having the tech talks with them.

The party went well, however being a vegetarian I dont think I had any much options. In a wonderful situation like this food was the only concern. Unimaginably bad. Well thats how the life of a Veggie would be in USA rather anywhere outside India.

CEC - Identity Management

Monday evening I attended the session on Identity managment. Johnny cope was there taking the session. It was supposed to be a deep dive session, however everyone started asking/discussing solutions to their client problems. However their team is currently, I was informed, are making a team which only takes care of preparing images and deploying on public access servers. Thus the presales guy who visits the client can directly login with his id and give them a demo. Also licenses to try the product online for a week or couple are being to be sold so that the clients can check the product for a while before taking the decision.

SUN Identity Manager rocks.

NetBEANS Plugin:

Many of us know the BPE will be scrapped off, phase wise and finally everyone is expected to use NetBeans to create all custom objects in Sun Identity Manager. Every version of NetBeans vs IdM war file there is a .nbm file that needs to be imported into the Netbeans. I got my hands dirty using the NetBeans 5.5 and SUN Identity Manager war file for 7.1.1. Its awesome to use Netbeans instead of BPE, except the heavy memory requirement NetBeans has.

Tuesday I would be attending wonderful sessions like RBAC, VIDT, Security Considerations for IDM etc. Will post it soon.

CEC - Indian Telecom scenario.

I attended a session on the telecom scenario in India with Vodafone being the case study. There are few amazing statistics that I would like to mention which I came to know.

1. Vodafone has presence in 62+ countries
2. 1.2 Billion population of India is almost greater than the population of both USA and UK combined
3. Only 20% of Indians use mobile phones. (There may be a scenario that one person may have multiple connections too)
4. 87.9% of the Mobile users in India use only Prepaid
5. Indian operators are providing the cheapest call rates compared to the entire world
6. The target by 2010 is that there would be 500Mn Mobile users in India
7. Vodafone just by acquiring Hutch got 30Mn subscribers which is almost 13% of its worldwide subscription

Aren't there facts amazing.

Will keep posting.

First updates of CEC??? Nope Vegas First

Vegas ........ ah what a place?

The first thing one needs to know is .... "whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" is the quote here. Its a different world altogether a fantasy world. You never know when its night and when its a day. At night the city just looks like gold spread all over. If there is money flowing anywhere then it is here. People just spend money like anything. The description of Vegas can be given better by a poet or a story writer, for a person like me, its simply speechless.

SUN has organized the conference in Hotels Paris and Bally's. I stay in the later. This is just in front of the Ballagio where the eleven stand and watch the fountains after walking away with the 16 million dollars. I was just watching the same today.


Everyone I met, during my journey to Vegas asked me only one thing, "Conference at Vegas???". And I didn't know what to say. Whatever may be it, the place is a wonderful one to visit in one's lifetime.

Will keep posting.

SUN - CEC 2007

Just a week away from now is the SUN Customer Engineering Conference 2007 at Las Vegas. Are you coming? Well this is going to be another exciting event from SUN with around 3500 people around the world including employees, vendors, partners etc attending it.

My area of interest would be Identity Management and SOA.

The highlights are ...

1. Free certifications for Solaris, JCAPS, Java and many other
2. Lots of techno videos
3. Prizes for bloggers ...

Oh what not ... CEC 2007 has everything to offer. Hope to see/meet great people out there.
Keep checking for more on this event in the next week.