CA Announces Enterprise-Scale Identity Management Tool
Monday 21 November 2005New solution leverages acquired Netegrity Technology; enables identity management to be delivered as a Web service.
CA has announced CA Identity Manager, a tool that automates the management of user identities across enterprise systems. The solution leverages technology from CA's acquisition of Netegrity, and is intended to unify identity management across the entire enterprise — from the Web to the mainframe — to streamline and simplify administration of internal and external users and their entitlements.
This helps ensure that IT systems are under control and that business processes are conducted in accordance with enterprise policies, the company said.
"“As their user populations, infrastructure, and application portfolios become increasingly complex, enterprise IT organizations are finding it difficult to simultaneously meet the needs of the business, ensure information security, comply with data privacy regulations, and keep costs down,” said Toby Weiss, senior vice president and general manager of CA's Security Management business unit.
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CA Identity Manager supports compliance and security through the automation of identity management processes. This automation drives repeatable and auditable processes that are inherently more reliable than the ad hoc, manual processes that are often used today. In addition, control policies such as those related to segregation of duties or entitlement re-certifications can be managed more easily through policy-based automation.
CA Identity Manager capabilities include:
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Web Services Interface – Identity Manager allows identity management to be deployed as a Web service, providing a standards-based, centrally deployed and managed method for programmatically initiating identity management actions. This further facilitates the broad rollout of identity management services with minimal impact to applications and the developers that build and maintain them.
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Business Driven Entitlements – To ensure that users' identities and access rights comply with corporate policies, Identity Manager can readily be configured to periodically require managers to re-certify user entitlements, for example, by requiring that user access to critical systems, such as payroll, be re-certified every quarter, while access to less critical systems can be re-certified annually.
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Compliance Reporting – Identity Manager's comprehensive, out-of-the-box reports support corporate compliance efforts by documenting that identity controls are in place and working as intended. Identity Manager enables security administrators to flexibly define security policies and automate their enforcement. They also can ensure that application entitlements are appropriately defined, thereby supporting compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, and HIPAA.
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User Self-Service and Password Management – Identity Manager enables users to manage their own profile, password and entitlements through self-service capabilities, forgotten password support, bi-directional password synchronization, GINA (Graphical Identification and Authentication) support, and automatic enforcement of periodic password changes.
Identity Manager is part of CA's eTrust Identity and Access Management (IAM) Suite, which includes Web access control, enterprise single sign-on, identity administration, user provisioning, user directory, identity federation, and Web services security.
CA also announced that as part of a new corporate branding initiative, its formal name has been changed from “Computer Associates” to CA.
For more information, visit www.ca.com .
