NetPoint comes with features that allow companies to manage the identities and permissions of various users or groups of users, as well as web single sign on, delegated administration and user self-registration and self-service capabilities.
It encourages the use of open, federated identities across multiple service providers, while providing the user with a single point of sign on. The Alliance, you may remember, appeared as a response to Microsoft's Passport network identity...
The answers that some are touting revolve around single-use or single sign-on software and appliances. And this will increase with stronger password rules," says Rudolph Huber, VP identity management at ASG.
Advocates of such services would have you believe that these are "user-enabling" technologies, but the truth is that any technology, including single sign-on, that requires you to relinquish control of your personal information is a risk.
Sun's source code release gives Java developers at enterprises or software makers the ability to support single sign-on technology in their applications, said Sara Gates, Sun's vice-president of identity management.
Sauer said: "If you have one single namespace, there's an opportunity there [for Skype] to leverage that space by integrating third party LDAP, which has been built into some large identity management systems in large enterprises.