ObjectSecurity Monthly Update

05 January 2009

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Thank you for subscribing to our news update service. This month we are proud to announce further information about our new beta version of OpenPMF's business process modeling (BPMN) support.

We also have a new project success story (see below), and have completed our SOA security project.

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ObjectSecurity "Cool Vendor 2008"

New projects and product releases

Success story: Technical support contract for German military
ObjectSecurity completed a technical support contract for ESG. The end customer was the German military for the HEROS-2/Lot-2 system for the 1st German-Netherlands Corp. Steffen Pohle, project manager at ESG says that „ObjectSecurity offered highly competent, well-managed and cost-effective technical support. We are very happy with MICO open source CORBA, it is very stable, solid, and easy to use”.

UK Cyber Security KTN SOA security project completed
ObjectSecurity completed the SOA security concerns project for the UK Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN). A major deliverable was produced to summarise the main SOA security concerns. Have a look at the outcomes at www.secure-soa.info and contribute your views.

OpenPMF now supports BPMN (Intalio BPMS) - OPENPMF 3.0 NEW VERSION COMING SOON!
ObjectSecurity is pleased to announce that OpenPMF 2.0 now supports business process management based model-driven security management. The feature is available in beta, and the demo ties in with Intalio BPMS. 30 October 2008. A demo video clip is here, and a discussion of this feature is on our blog.

SWIM-SUIT (System Wide Information Management SUpported by Innovative Technologies) The SWIM-SUIT air traffic control R&D is still ongoing.

News & Press Releases

OpenPMF Business Driven Compliance Management Framework
ObjectSecurity has developed a framework for OpenPMF Business Driven Compliance Management (more).

ObjectSecurity partners with Global Info Intel
ObjectSecurity partners with Global Info Intel, 05 January 2009

ObjectSecurity Q1-Q2/2008 analyst coverage
ObjectSecurity is listed in the following Gartner analyst reports:"Cool Vendors in Application Security and Authentication, 2008" (G00156005) 4 April 2008, "Tear Down Application Authorization Silos With Authorization Management Solutions" (G00147801) 31 May 200, "Model-Driven Security: Enabling a Real-Time, Adaptive Security Infrastructure" (G00151498) 21 September 2007, "Hype Cycle for Information Security, 2007" (G00150728) 4 September 2007, "Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management Technologies, 2008" (G00158499) 30 June 2008, "Hype Cycle for Context-Aware Computing, 2008" (G00158162) 1 July 2008, "Cisco Buys Securent for Policy Management, and Relevance" (G00153181), 5 November 2007.
In addition ObjectSecurity has been the analyst firm "451 Group" in a "Market Insight Service Impact Report" (54313). OpenPMF 2.0 is mentioned as a "... a powerful framework that addresses the missing element in controlling user-resource interaction: policy management." Both Gartner and 451 Group referenced ObjectSecurity as a leader in model-driven security in numerous publications.
Burton Group is also currently completing a report on entitlement management which plans to cover ObjectSecurity

Modeldrivensecurity.org blog
This month, ObjectSecurity blog discusses more about the need for aligned business and IT security, and the need for process-led security policies. We also discuss recent academic work and a conference in the subject area.

ObjectSecurity drives Model Driven Security standardization in OMG
ObjectSecurity continues to support the standardization of a security policy model standard at the Object Management Group (OMG) consortium to prevent vendor lock-ins and market fragmentation. You can find our response to the RFI on the OMG web page. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this standardization effort, or if you would like to sponsor this standard.

Security Management Ecosystem
ObjectSecurity is currently forming strategic partnerships with vendors who would like to add OpenPMF security to their technologies. Details can be found on our partnerships web page.

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