Netegrity Successfully Passes Liberty Alliance Conformance Test.WALTHAM, Mass. -- Netegrity, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETE), a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, today announced that it has successfully passed the Liberty Alliance conformance con·for·mance n. Conformity. Noun 1. conformance - correspondence in form or appearance conformity agreement, correspondence - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and test and has earned the 'Liberty Alliance interoperable' logo. The Liberty Conformance test was held June 14-18 in Chicago. Netegrity's customers in the consumer finance and wireline and wireless telecommunications industries have expressed the need for Liberty compliant solutions due to the specification's robust federation model including strong privacy policies. To enable Liberty-compliant, browser-based identity federation, Netegrity(R) SiteMinder(R) technology provides a comprehensive Liberty Alliance ID-FF ID-FF Identity Federation Framework (Liberty Alliance) solution, supporting both Identity Provider and Service Provider modes of federation. During the conformance test, Netegrity demonstrated all of the functionality required to pass both Liberty Service Provider Complete and Identity Provider. Netegrity's Liberty compliant solution is supported with SiteMinder version 5.0 and higher. The Netegrity(R) Universal Federation Architecture(TM) enables companies to securely share identity information across applications within the enterprise as well as to external partner companies. Netegrity provides customers with a broad choice of standards to use in their federation implementations, including Liberty, SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) An XML-based format from OASIS for exchanging security information for single sign-on. The "assertions" are statements from a SAML authority that authenticate a user, confirm some attribute about the individual and grant or , and WS-Security. In addition, Netegrity is the only vendor that enables comprehensive deployments that span both browser-based and Web services-based federation. Using Netegrity's identity and access management products, customers are able to incorporate their federated identity In information technology, federated identity has two general meanings:
Netegrity also offers a professional service package to assist customers with their federation implementations. The package helps customers to use standards such as SAML or Liberty to quickly get up and running with federation deployments. "Earning the Liberty Alliance interoperability conformance logo and demonstrating interoperability with other vendor's Liberty implementations is very important to Netegrity and our federated identity strategy," said Vadim Lander, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at Netegrity. "Our customers have clearly indicated that federation is a key business initiative and the Netegrity Universal Federation Architecture and our support for all of the major federation standards will help to ensure success in their federation projects." Every product or service with the official Liberty-interoperable logo will have demonstrated successful implementation of the Liberty federated identity specifications during a Liberty-sponsored validation event. The implementations must successfully pass a series of tests created and published by the Liberty Alliance. The test suite is designed to validate each implementation's execution of the Liberty specifications' core features and verify the ability to interoperate with at least two randomly designated partners. About Netegrity Netegrity, Inc. is a leading provider of security software solutions that securely manage identities and their access to enterprise information assets, letting business in while keeping risk out. Netegrity provides a comprehensive identity and access management product line for continuously evolving computing environments, including legacy, Web, and service-oriented architectures See SOA. . Netegrity's flexible, standards-based offerings increase security, reduce administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. , and enable revenue enhancement revenue enhancement An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits. . Supported by a network of over 1200 trained integration consultants and 300 technology partners, Netegrity solutions are licensed for more than 350 million users at nearly 850 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit http://www.netegrity.com. Netegrity, SiteMinder, IdentityMinder, TransactionMinder, and Universal Federation Architecture are trademarks or registered trademarks of Netegrity, Inc. 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