OpenPMF simplifies enterprise security management by reducing redundant administration, improving policy compliance and enabling agility. OpenPMF's powerful, yet easy-to-use authorization product is the only 'model driven enterprise authorization management' solution in the market today.

OpenPMF (Open Policy Management Framework) goes much beyond other authorization management products by providing an unprecedented highly flexible, feature-rich, and fine-grained authorization management. It supports convenient centralised run-time enforcement and compliance monitoring. The business benefits include cost-saving, improved security, increased agility, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenPMF is based on 9 years of solid research of customer requirements and technical R&D by leading distributed systems experts at ObjectSecurity and University of Cambridge - it is the most thought-through solution on the market. It was originally designed because no suitable products were available to meet the real-world requirements of our consulting customers.

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Real-Time Innovations (RTI) Data Distribution Service (DDS) OpenPMF integration & demo
ObjectSecurity was contracted by RTI to develop OpenPMF plug-ins for their DDS middleware. ObjectSecurity extends their OpenPMF policy manager with the features necessary for DDS, and implements local plug-ins. ObjectSecurity will also add OpenPMF to RTI's DDS demonstrator, so that secure RTI DDS can be demonstrated to the customer base.

The benefit for DDS end-customers is that they can manage security for large DDS environments centrally, felxibly, intuitively and with low effort. This makes RTI DDS the first DDS implementation in the world that includes security and model driven security management.

RTI Data Distribution Service (formerly NDDS) is networking middleware that implements a real-time publish-subscribe communications model and allows distributed processes to share data without concern for the actual physical location or architecture of their peers.It includes support for best-effort and reliable communications (including reliable multicast), as well as client-server communications. RTI Data Distribution Service is an open-architecture, data-critical platform based on the Object Management Group's (OMG) Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS). The OMG is the same group that manages the CORBA and UML standards. OMG recognized the need to augment CORBA with a data-centric publish-subscribe specification. The DDS standard answers that need, and RTI is a primary author of the new specification. RTI Data Distribution Service is field-proven middleware that is currently used in a wide variety of time-critical applications. It is available with C, C++, and Java APIs.

(note: project on-going 08/2007-09/2007)