Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g, a new integrated offering within Oracle Identity Management and a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Designed to prevent online identity theft and fraud, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g claims to include a number of enhancements including: turnkey Knowledge-Based Authentication and system monitoring dashboard features, increased support for financial and retail compliance requirements, a hot-pluggable architecture and tight integration with Oracle Access Manager.

Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g can be deployed in Oracle and non-Oracle environments and layered with an organisation's existing authentication security architecture, such as hardware-based security tokens, smart cards and PKI authentication schemes.

"Oracle Adaptive Access Manager enables Oracle to provide organisations with next-generation risk-based access management capabilities and to augment existing heterogeneous security solutions to better protect against common and costly threats," said Hasan Rizvi, vice president, Identity Management and Security Products, Oracle. "The new features of Oracle Adaptive Access Manager coupled with its enhanced support for Oracle and third-party applications, further complement our portfolio of best-in-class identity and access management products and allow customers to streamline compliance requirements."