CHICAGO and KISTA, Sweden, December 1 /PRNewswire/ --

Symlabs, a global leader in identity management products, and Axiomatics, a leading-edge provider of authorization management systems, have formed a partnership to deliver solutions that solve real-world problems involving authorization and access to services and resources. Through a combination of Symlabs Virtual Directory Server, Symlabs PDP Broker Solution, and Axiomatics Policy Server the companies have created a powerful, flexible, and highly usable system to aggregate and map the information needed for policy decisions. This innovative solution puts the multi-protocol support, multiple back-end data sources, and data mapping of Symlabs Virtual Directory to work with all the capabilities of Axiomatics Policy Server to produce a new best-of-breed standard for fine-grained authorization management implementations.

Fine-grained authorization solutions are now becoming an essential component in any new IT infrastructure project, said Babak Sadighi, CEO of Axiomatics. With more power and flexibility from the Policy Server, more applications can participate, more users can benefit, and fewer security risks exist. By putting the products from Axiomatics and Symlabs together, we are able to provide a more complete attribute-based authorization solution to the market.

Axiomatics is a leader in XACML 3.0 based authorization management systems. With a focus on providing software and services to enable the use of this new industry standard, Axiomatics delivers access control products and services for companies and public organizations that require security combined with flexible authorization management in a distributed environment. Axiomatics Policy Server is not only the first product family to support the new XACML 3.0 standard, it is also the most comprehensive XACML 3.0 suite currently available.

According to Sampo Kellomaki, CTO of Symlabs, XACML technology nicely abstracts the policy decision away from applications, but a further challenge is to supply the policy engine with all the attribute data that is needed to make those decisions. Often the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) is not well placed to collect all this information, and what's needed is a Policy Information Point (PIP). Symlabs Virtual Directory is a very powerful PIP that ideally complements Axiomatics Policy Server in complex real life deployments.

Symlabs is a leading provider of high performance components for Virtual Directory, LDAP, and Identity Management solutions. Symlabs Virtual Directory Server and LDAP Proxy are flexible and powerful software components that simplify identity data access and management for users or applications. Symlabs Federated Identity Suite includes federation server components to implement any combination of identity provider, service provider, or identity web services capabilities needed to create Liberty-compliant identity management solutions in record time. Solutions from Symlabs integrate seamlessly into existing identity management infrastructures for network operators, financial services providers, or any business needing industry-leading speed, flexibility, and reliability.

For more information about Axiomatics XACML Products and Services, please visit them on the web at http://www.axiomatics.com.

For more information about Symlabs Identity Management Products and Professional Services, please visit them on the web at http://symlabs.com.

Jeff Zukowski of Symlabs, +1-312-214-3570, jeff@symlabs.com; or Babak Sadighi of Axiomatics, +46(70)229-0701, babak@axiomatics.com