Open source data management specialist Talend has announced the release of what it calls "the industry's first platform for data services". Known as Talend ESB Standard Edition, the open source enterprise service bus (ESB) is to be a key component in the company's unified platform for data services.

PasswordBank Technologies Inc., the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) company, announced today the introduction of PasswordBank Federation, the first and only multi-platform Identity Federation solution that works with or without SAML, providing maximum security to Enterprises and Service Providers. PasswordBank Federation allows identity-related information to be shared securely between the enterprise and service providers (cloud and on-premise applications). PasswordBank enables the Enterprise to maintain full and centralized control over accesses to all applications of the organization.

The Alembic Foundation announced the availability of Aurion 4.0, the first release of the open source health information exchange software based upon CONNECT from the Federal Health Architecture. Aurion 4.0 was built by the Aurion open source community and incorporates code contributions from 19 people from five organizations.

...Google’s recent announcement that it is providing two-factor authentication (2FA) for Google Apps reflects a move away from simple password access to stronger authentication for cloud-based applications.