Middleware Announcements

[Lisa Haanpaa <>]

New Signet Privilege Management System Release Provides Improved
Installation & Customization Support

The Signet Privilege Management System enables consistent application
of policy and business access rules across managed services. It places
the control of a resource in the hands of its steward.

The new v1.2.0 provides an automated install and furthermore provides
support for a site to preserve site customizations across upgrades. You
want your deployment to have a local look and feel with a tailored
interface reflecting your campus culture and preferences, and now you can
rest assured that these settings will translate effortlessly across new
builds and future releases. Your staff will find the new and improved
installation easier and faster, allowing them to continue their focus on
implementing local policy. This is critical to adoption, since the
primary users of Signet are the campus decision-makers assigning and
managing individuals' privileges. 

 The new release of Signet (v1.2.0) also:

• includes updated interface for Subject API v0.2.2
• offers full support of language localization/globalization
• extends developer-oriented documentation

Coupled with the Grouper Group Management Toolkit, the combined suite
provides research and academic institutions the critical software and
tools needed to support enhanced institution-wide role- and
permission-based authorization for access to protected resources. The
tools can also support the management of virtual organizations and aid
the grid computing community by giving project teams spread around the
world the ability to manage access to resources that are geographically
dispersed.

For more information on Signet, refer to
<http://signet.internet2.edu/>.

For more information on Grouper, refer to
<http://grouper.internet2.edu/>.

Development of Signet was supported with funding from Stanford
University, with additional support from Internet2, and the NSF
Middleware Initiative (NSF 02-028, Grant No. OCI-0330626).