The Oracle Adaptive Access Manager

is part of the

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product suite that provides

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services to web and other online applications. Oracle Adaptive Access Manager was developed by the company Bharosa, which was founded by Thomas Varghese, Don Bosco Durai and CEO

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. The software was included in Oracle's acquisition of Bharosa.

History

Oracle acquired Bharosa, which means 'trust' in the

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language, to extend its web-based access management solutions. In 2003, Bharosa was founded by Thomas Varghese, a research

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and serial entrepreneur. Later, Don Bosco Durai and

came on board as co-founders.

Design philosophy

The premise was simple in that the existing

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technologies were unsatisfactory and easy to compromise. No

technology can really provide its full and intended

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benefits unless the

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and

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are re-designed from the grounds up.Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
/ref> Oracle Adaptive Access Manager has two components, the strong Authentication-agnostic security component and the application-agnostic Risk component. One simple example of the Strong Authentication component is that a User can choose a personalized keypad and use mouse clicks to enter password to prevent passwords being stolen with key loggers and being phished or pharmed. The Risk Component analyzes the authentication and transaction data for abnormalities and anomalies in real-time to prevent fraud and also in off-line mode to identify and detect internet fraud.

References

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External links

* ttp://blogs.oracle.com/bornidentity/ Thomas Varghese Aims to Address Challenges in Identity Management and Security in This Blog Oracle software