Sun Microsystems 2005Q1 manual Sso

Mapping Portal Server Features to Your Business Needs

Table 3-1Identity Management Features and Benefits (Continued)

Feature Description Benefit

User, policy, and	Access Manager enables you to manage
provisioning	many users spanning a variety of different
management	roles across the organization and sometimes
	outside the organization while accessing
	content, applications, and services.

Single sign-on	Access Manager integrates user
(SSO)	authentication and single sign-on through an
	SSO API. Once the user is authenticated, the
	SSO API takes over. Each time the
	authenticated user tries to access a protected
	page, the SSO API determines if the user has
	the permissions required based on their
	authentication credentials. If the user is valid,
	access to the page is given without additional
	authentication. If not, the user is prompted to
	authenticate again.

Provides a centralized identity management solution for storing and managing identity information, which is integrated with a policy solution to enforce access rights, greatly simplifying these challenges. Extends a common identity to handle new applications, enables applications to share administrative work, and simplifies tasks normally associated with building these services from scratch.

Consolidates management of users and applications. Personalizes content and service delivery. Simplifies and streamlines information and service access. Reduces costs associated with managing access and delivery.

Provides secure policy-based access to applications. Ensures secure access as portal deployments expand beyond employee LAN access.

Enhances user productivity by providing a consistent, centralized mechanism to manage authentication and single sign-on, while enabling employees, partners and customers access to content, applications, and services.

Delegated	The Access Manager administration console
administration	provides role-based delegated administration
	capabilities to different kinds of administrators
	to manage organizations, users, policy, roles,
	channels, and Portal Desktop providers
	based on the given permissions.
Security	Provides single sign-on for aggregated
	applications to the portal.

Enables IT to delegate portal administrative duties to free up valuable IT resources and administration.

Security is an important functionality in portals. Security can address many different needs within the portal, including authentication into the portal, encryption of the communications between the portal and the end user, and authorization of the content and applications to only users that are allowed access.

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