Identity & Policy: A Common Platform for a Pervasive Policy Paradigm

This book is a sequel to the first book published in 2007, "Identity and Security" and is again based on the authors experience working at Sun Microsystems as an IT Architect specializing in Identity System Integration with Telecom Customers and Cable Customers along with Sun's NEP (Network equipment partners) and integrating Sun Identity System with ISV (independent software vendor) partners. It also includes the author's understanding of market developments in the Identity & Policy (XACML) space and potential future, based on the developments that have taken shape in the last 3 years (2005 to 2008). The objective of this book is to explore the strategic significance, market requirements and all the potential possibilities of leveraging Standards based Identity and Policy Systems for an Enterprise IT environment (& Enterprise Architecture) and Telecom environment to provide a pragmatic view for the future in network convergence based on NGN and converged services based on Service Oriented Architecture. This book also looks into the alignment and functional integration offered by Policy Orchestration between multiple functional policy domains, including, device policies, NAC policies, QOE policies, Session Specific policies, Service Polices, Distributed System and Virtual System policies, Privacy policies, Policy assurance and more. Dr. Chandramouli from NIST and The University of Maryland has also collaborated in this book on "Identity and Policy", as a co-author. He is also the co-author of the well received second edition of the book on RBAC -Role Based Access Control. He has authored many papers as well in the area of RBAC and Policies.