ObjectSecurity Monthly Update

31 October 2008

 

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

We also moved our US office to the Plug & Play Tech Center in Palo Alto, CA, USA, to be close to the 'pulse' in Silicon Valley. If you are based in California, then you may be interested to know that Dr. Ulrich Lang, CEO & co-founder of ObjectSecurity, will be available for meetings in San Diego 09-13 & 20-21 November 08, and at our Palo Alto office 14-19 November 08. Contact to arrange a meeting. You can also meet ObjectSecurity in the Cambridge/London, UK area, and in Abu Dhabi during 24-26 November 2008.

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ObjectSecurity "Cool Vendor 2008"

New projects and product releases

 

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 discussion of this feature: blog

Business executive summary for OpenPMF 2.0 and new compliance services
ObjectSecurity released an executive summary about why business needs Business Driven Compliance Management and OpenPMF (more).

MICO support contract for German military
ObjectSecurity signed a technical support subcontract for MICO CORBA for the German military, September 2008.

OpenPMF / RTI DDS / Promia Raven integration project with RTI and Promia is completed and was successfully demonstrated to the US Air Force (integration of OpenPMF, RTI DDS, and Promia Raven).

ObjectSecurity's other ongoing projects include:

SWIM-SUIT air traffic control R&D as part of the SWIM-SUIT (System Wide Information Management SUpported by Innovative Technologies) project

UK Cyber Security KTN SOA security projet ongoing: Workshop, document, survey
ObjectSecurity continues work on the
SOA security concerns project for the UK Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN). You are encouraged to contribute your views at www.secure-soa.info. Within the next week, you will find a survey there.The workshop will be held in London, UK, on 03 November 2008 (take the survey, contribute to the document)

News & Press Releases

 

ObjectSecurity signs US military contract with Promia, 23 Sept. 08
ObjectSecurity signs a US military agreement with Promia. Promia and ObjectSecurity will jointly develop a next-generation IT security intrusion detection and enforcement product, using their respective products ObjectSecurity OpenPMF 2.0 and Promia Raven. 22 September 2008

ObjectSecurity signs utilities contract with Promia, 23 Sept. 08
ObjectSecurity signs a ulitites industry agreement with Promia. Promia and ObjectSecurity will jointly develop a novel technology that makes it easier for the utilities sector to achieve regulatory compliance with The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards. It supports decision making, produces audit documentation, detects anomalies, and supports policy-driven requirements management 22 September 2008

ObjectSecurity US office moves to Plug & Play Tech Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
ObjectSecurity moves their offices into the Plug & Play Tech Center on University Ave, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 15 September 2008

ObjectSecurity partners with Fintricity
ObjectSecurity partners with Fintricity. The partnership joins up the complementary SOA products and solutions of both companies: OpenPMF 2.0 and SOA consulting. 06 October 2008

ObjectSecurity partners with Secerno
ObjectSecurity partners with Secerno. The partnership allows OpenPMF customers to regulate data interactions across a range of databases thanks to Secerno’s database security enforcement. Similarly, Secerno customers benefit from the ability to integrate database security with their organisation’s wider security infrastructure via OpenPMF’s simplified security policy management for multiple security systems. 22 September 2008

ObjectSecurity in Silicon Valley
If you are based in California, then you may be interested to know that Dr. Ulrich Lang, CEO & co-founder of ObjectSecurity, will be available to meet you in San Diego 09-13 & 20-21 November 08, and at our Palo Alto office 14-19 November 08. Contact to arrange a meeting. You can also meet ObjectSecurity in the Cambridge/London, UK area, and in Abu Dhabi during 24-26 November 2008.

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.

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.

ObjectSecurity joins Sun Partner Program
ObjectSecurity joins the Sun Partner Program as part of ObjectSecurity's wide platform support strategy for OpenPMF.

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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Events - meet ObjectSecurity face-to-face at these events (contact us to arrange a meeting)

Our upcoming presentations:

IACP 2008 San Diego
ObjectSecurity will attend this conference/expo

Cyber Security Collaboration Summit San Diego
ObjectSecurity will attend and present SOA security project findings

Passenger Terminal Middle East 2008
ObjectSecurity will present IT security for airport CDM/SWIM and SOA

RSA Conference 2009
ObjectSecurity will be at the RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco, CA, USA, April 20-24, 2009

Click here to view an up-to-date events list.


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