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.