Oracle said it is pushing a new security framework to help companies better protect sensitive employee, customer and partner information exchanged through applications. Ping Identity, Securent, CA , Novell and Sun Microsystems are joining Identity Governance Framework (IGF), an effort Oracle is spearheading to fill a void in security standards. IGF addresses what happens once data gets into corporate applications, making it a complementary spec to basic identity management standards, such as Liberty’s Identity and Web Services Federation (ID-WSF) and OASIS’s Security Assurance Markup Language (SAML) (define). IGF is crucial for meeting compliance rules and elementary security requirements, according to Amit Jasuja, vice president of development for security and identity management at Oracle.