Reading, UK - 19th February 20009

News Facts

• Today, Oracle Corporation announced that Standard Life plc, a major worldwide asset managing group, has licensed Oracle Identity and Access Management technology to underpin customer and business partner access control across the company’s global websites.
• In delivering a common group platform in this area, Standard Life will be able to enforce an even higher level of security and process diligence whilst reducing costs and centralising the administration of associated information security services.
• Oracle Identity and Access Management will use standard connectors to share data with existing corporate information assets such as Microsoft Active Directory, Novell e-Directory, Oracle Database and Oracle Internet Directory and operates against the relevant open standards within Standard Life’s heterogeneous technology environment,
• Standard Life Canada is expected to be the first of the organisation’s worldwide operations to complete the implementation of the new solution with the UK following shortly thereafter.

Supporting Quotes

“Customers have a right to expect their information to be safeguarded by the companies they choose to do business with and Standard Life takes customer security extremely seriously. The Oracle Identity and Access Management portfolio allows us to further protect our customers from emerging threats.” says Brian Barbour, Chief Information Security Officer of Standard Life. “Oracle has already been heavily involved in the data protection and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) strategies within Standard Life. In moving further into their identity security portfolio, we are able to extend our single-technology approach to tackling these challenges whilst delivering a digital identity foundation essential to our long term security strategy.”

“Standard Life understands that trust and information security should be synonymous for any company that recognises the true value of long-term customer relationships.” added Des Powley, Technology Director Security, Oracle UK, Ireland and Israel. “It is increasingly important for companies to protect information about the identity of customers and employees, not just because of the reputational risk, not just because it hits the bottom line, but because customers expect and deserve it.”

About Oracle Identity Management

Serving as the security backbone for Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Identity Management helps customers and partners decrease security threats across diverse IT environments while helping address governance, risk and compliance needs. Oracle Identity Management was the fastest growing suite of Identity Management products in 2007, based on total software revenues worldwide. Oracle Identity Management's support of industry standards such as WS*, XACML, SAML and SPML helps enable customers and partners to more easily integrate applications with the framework. The family of best-in-class software includes Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Entitlements Server, Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite, Oracle Identity Federation, Oracle Role Manager, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Management Pack for Identity Management and Oracle Web Services Manager; all of which can be used in its entirety or as individual components. To learn more, visit http://www.oracle.com/identity.

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