ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced new product, customer and partner
proof points of how its identity and access management (IAM)
technology supports use of cloud applications by enhancing
security, helping to ease compliance efforts, and automating
processes for improved operational efficiencies in managing the IT
supply chain.
Today's announcement includes the availability of new CA
Identity Manager capabilities that extend identity management to
cloud applications; it highlights how a customer has leveraged the
CA SiteMinder portfolio to control access to its SaaS applications;
and it features how CA Technologies is providing IAM as a
service from the cloud. It also includes technology integration to
streamline Identity Governance processes, and help ensure security
policies are followed, and access and entitlements are
appropriately granted and certified.
"Our goal is to help organizations leverage the business value
of cloud computing as part of their broader, dynamic IT service
supply chain. From a security and IAM perspective, we have a
three-pronged approach to executing that strategy," said
Bill Mann, senior vice president of
Strategy for CA Technologies Security business. "We enable
enterprises to extend their existing on-premise IAM systems
to encompass cloud applications and services. We provide IAM
for cloud providers to secure their services – whether
private, public, or hybrid; and we enable IAM services from
the cloud."
Identity and Access Management To, For and From the
Cloud
- To the cloud: Regardless of whether an application
resides within the enterprise or is hosted in the cloud, managing
the identities and controlling the access of users to key resources
is a critical function for IT organizations that face increasing
pressure to cut operating costs while still enabling compliance and
productivity. CA Technologies is focused on delivering a single
identity management system to manage identities for applications
internal to the enterprise and external in the cloud.
CA Identity Manager now supports user provisioning
to Google Apps™, Google's suite of communication and
collaboration tools which includes Gmail and Google Docs,
available to businesses, schools, governments and non-profits.
Organizations now can automate identity management functions, such
as role-based user provisioning and de-provisioning, and
self-service access requests, to deliver a single, automated system
for managing identities for Google Apps in the cloud, as well as
existing in-house applications.
"Large businesses are adopting cloud computing at an
increasingly rapid pace, and CA Identity Manager helps them more
easily deploy and manage user access to cloud-based applications
like Google Apps in an automated and centralized way," said, Scott
McMullan, Google Apps partner lead.
This support for Google Apps follows the release in March of a
similar capability for salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing
platform, Force.com, and applications including Sales Cloud 2,
Service Cloud 2 and Salesforce Chatter.
"Customers are experiencing massive success with cloud computing
and want to extend its benefits to every employee," said
Kendall Collins, chief marketing
officer, salesforce.com. "Our work with CA Technologies will help
accelerate that adoption by giving customers an efficient way to
manage user access and identity in the cloud."
The new capabilities added to CA Identity Manager for Google
Apps and salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing offerings are
available today. The technology is part of the base code for CA
Identity Manager and is available at no additional charge to
existing CA Identity Manager customers.
"The train has left the station. Organizations are migrating
business-critical applications to the cloud, and efficient identity
lifecycle management is mandatory," said Mark Diodati, research director, Gartner. "Until
there are viable and sufficiently-adopted industry standards,
successful identity management vendors will need to deliver an
integrated and productive solution to manage cloud-based
identities."
- For the cloud: Existing IAM solutions from CA
Technologies help control users, their access and how they can use
information in private, public or hybrid cloud environments. They
help deliver the same level of security found within the enterprise
addressing needs that include virtualization security, compliance,
policy management and more.
MEDecision uses CA SiteMinder, CA Federation Manager and CA SOA
Security Manager to control access to its SaaS-based health
management applications, including Alineo®, a collaborative
healthcare management platform for delivering outcome-driven case,
disease and utilization management, and Nexalign®, MEDecision's
collaborative healthcare decision support service that fosters
better payer-patient-physician interactions.
"HIPAA compliance affects what we do every day in support of
providing a simple and smart way for our customers to harness the
power of knowledge, and to enable the best clinical decisions and
improve health outcomes," said Chris
Sharp, director of application development, MEDecision. "The
CA SiteMinder portfolio is a critical part of our Web security
platform, enabling flexible, but secure access."
- From the cloud: Understanding that some organizations
are interested in using a cloud-based service, CA Technologies is
working with partners to deliver IAM as a fully managed service
that helps strengthen, streamline and simplify how organizations
approach identifying, authenticating and granting secure access to
on premise and cloud applications and services. First demonstrated
at CA World 2010, the service can be applied to various vertical
markets.
New Product Integrations Pave the Way for Identity
Governance
As CA Technologies continues to extend its IAM support to
include cloud-based applications, it brings new benefits for
organizations. For example, CA Role & Compliance Manager can
certify user access for both on-premise and cloud applications
which helps meet audit requirements.
Taking that a step further, new integration between CA Role
& Compliance Manager and CA Enterprise Log Manager can simplify
meeting compliance and audit requirements by streamlining Identity
Governance processes to help ensure security policies are followed,
and access and entitlements are appropriately granted and certified
for both on premise and cloud applications.
The integration provides managers with intelligence and context
to improve decision making during identity governance processes.
Together, CA Role & Compliance Manager and CA Enterprise Log
Manager provide a holistic view of user access - highlighting
potential policy violations - and a history of how frequently the
user accessed the resource or data. CA Enterprise Log Manager
provides the access history to help determine if access rights
should be terminated. Although access may seem legitimate based on
role, if a user hasn't accessed the resource in many months, the
entitlement may not be necessary or appropriate.
To learn more about Identity and Access Management solutions
from CA Technologies, visit:
- On the Web:
http://www.ca.com/us/it-security-solutions.aspx
- Security Management Blog:
http://community.ca.com/blogs/iam/default.aspx
- On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CASecurity
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