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Bridgestream to Deliver Integrated Identity and Roles Management Solution With Sun Microsystems

Posted on: Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 09:00 CST

At the RSA Conference 2006, Bridgestream, Inc., a leading provider of business roles automation solutions, today announced that it will work with Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) to deliver an integrated identity and roles management solution.

Bridgestream's SmartRoles(TM) technology helps Sun customers automate roles management through an integration with Sun's market-leading Identity Manager product. The integration allows Sun's identity management software to provision and de-provision accounts within SmartRoles, query SmartRoles to determine roles held by users and query SmartRoles to resolve approvers within the identity management workflows. The combination of Sun Identity Manager and Bridgestream SmartRoles increases time-to-value of the identity management solution.

"Sun is committed to offering our customers identity management software that lets them make security a seamless part of their business in ways that help them unlock value and make money," said Andy Land, product line manager of Identity Management at Sun. "The combination of Sun's Identity Manager provisioning product and Bridgestream's technology will allow customers to accelerate the deployment of their identity-management solutions."

"Roles management defines the business relationships that exist within a department or division across the extended enterprise. For example, access rights to specific applications can be provisioned as employees work on particular projects and de-provisioned as soon as they complete the project," said Edward Zou, vice president of marketing for Bridgestream. "This integrated offering will enable organizations to automate and enforce employees' access to information, applications and systems based on their pre-defined business roles, duties, interdependencies and relationships."

"The separation of duties requirement in many regulations (SOX, GLB Act, HIPAA) is forcing organizations to define a meaningful and manageable role infrastructure," said Roberta J. Witty, vice president of research at Gartner, Inc. "Role-based provisioning -- aligning the business function to the technical infrastructure components for access management -- can help with identity management and regulatory compliance to ensure that a company's day-to-day use of business rules is documented, reviewed and enforced."

About Bridgestream, Inc.

Bridgestream is a leading provider of business roles automation solutions. Gartner named Bridgestream a "cool vendor" in the security and privacy space in 2005. The Bridgestream SmartRoles(TM) software maps the business relationships that exist within a department, within a division and across the extended enterprise to provide fast, accurate and real-time information about role-based authorizations and changes. With Bridgestream, enterprises can decrease the cost of managing access and authority information, improve visibility and control as well as ensure regulatory compliance. Bridgestream is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For more information, visit www.bridgestream.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems and Java, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

 Contact:  Ed Zou Bridgestream, Inc. 415.284.0200 x223 Contact via http://www.marketwire.com/mw/emailprcntct?id=B7A283D003F44C2A  

SOURCE: Bridgestream, Inc.

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