Oracle purchased 2 companies that provide solutions to strengthen security products

Oracle has just announced that with the purchase of Thor Technologies, the leading provider of cross-platform resource decentralization solutions and OctetString, the leading virtual portfolio software provider, Oracle has significantly strengthened its systems. access management products and its high-end identifiers.

' Oracle is investing heavily in developing its diverse identity management product system because of its survival to its customers, ' said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware. ' With the acquisition of Thor Technologies and OctetString, Oracle is ready to offer the most powerful product suite that integrates standard identity management technologies '.

Serving as a security backbone for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle's identity management program provides businesses with the most advanced set of standards-based management technologies. Combined with Oracle's existing solutions and Thor Technologies and OctetString technologies, this suite offers outstanding features for access management, identity management, and identity and person hierarchy. use, catalog services, and Web service administration.

As part of Oracle's identity management product development strategy, these incremental solutions will be integrated into the company's application infrastructure, thereby reducing management costs, Increase the deployment cycle and improve security features for customers.

After acquiring Thor Technologies, Oracle launched Oracle Xellerate Identity Provisioning (formerly Thor Xellerate) solution that allows access rights and privileges of users through the decentralization cycle in information technology environments. Different operating platforms, systems, applications and physical devices.

The benefits brought by Oracle Xellerate include increased security, enhanced regulatory systems, streamlined operations, improved corporate responsiveness and cost reduction.

Developed from OctetString Virtual Directory Engine, Oracle Visual Directory allows organizations to link applications to multiple sources of user identification within the business quickly and easily. This is a virtual portfolio technology that allows multi-directory consolidation, password consolidation on categories, authorization cataloging features. The technology also provides 'hot plugging' features for Oracle applications, whereby they can upgrade the enterprise's existing database and catalog, serving the identity's data system. they.

It is expected that Oracle Xellerate Identity Provisioning and Oracle Virtual Directory will be launched later this year.

HONG NHUNG