ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced the availability of new releases and
enhancements to CA DLP, CA Identity Manager, CA ACF2™ and CA Top
Secret® that help fulfill the company's vision for Content-Aware
Identity and Access management (IAM). Content-Aware IAM is the
next-generation approach to IAM that helps improve information
security, reduce risk and meet compliance mandates. Traditional IAM
stops at the point of access; it doesn't control how the
information that is accessed is used. Content-Aware IAM goes a step
further to help control identities, their access and what they can
do with the information. This innovative approach helps enterprises
protect their critical information from inappropriate use or
disclosure.
Today's announcement includes the availability of new
capabilities in CA DLP and CA Identity Manager for the distributed
environment, and new releases of CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret for the
mainframe platform. These products help link identities and roles
to information use policies, so that critical data can be protected
based on the role of each user. Content-Aware IAM enables
organizations to:
- Reduce administrative effort and cost through the automated
provisioning of information use policies to users.
- Improve security by removing data permissions immediately (for
example, to view sensitive corporate information) upon termination
or transfer of an employee.
- Ease compliance with regulations by detecting and correcting
attempted violations of information use policies based on
identity.
- Reduce effort and cost associated with compliance audits with
easier reporting.
CA Security Enhancements for Content-Aware IAM
- CA DLP: The second major release of CA DLP in a year, CA
DLP 12.5 delivers direct CA Identity Manager integration as well as
enhanced detection techniques and policy-driven data encryption.
- Content registration detection technique - Scans files
and creates a digital "fingerprint" to identify sensitive
content as it travels within or exits an organization.
- CA Identity Manager integration – Uses identity
attributes in data policy and influences information use (see CA
Identity Manager below).
- Policy driven data encryption for data in use -
Initiates the encryption of emails, including attachments and files
sent to removable devices, via integration with native and
third-party encryption technologies.
- Role-based event review – Delivers policy and role-based
delegation that helps control visibility to events and enable
segregation of duties in environments where CA DLP is deployed for
multiple disciplines. For example, IT Security, Legal, Compliance,
or HR could all deploy their own data policies and review
infractions in isolation, protecting confidentiality and
privacy.
According to the October 2010
report by Forrester Research Inc, "The Forrester Wave™: Data Leak
Prevention Suites, Q4 2010," "CA Technologies dramatic product
enhancements have enabled it to considerably grow its DLP sales to
emerge as a Leader." The report goes on to say, "Perhaps as a
result of all the improvements in the newest version of the
product, CA's DLP suite sales are growing faster than any other
vendor's, and a best-in-class 60 percent of its customers have
already upgraded."
- CA Identity Manager: Improved integration and automation
with CA DLP allows CA Identity Manager to directly provision,
de-provision, and modify users in the CA DLP hierarchy. As users'
roles change, those changes are passed into CA DLP, which allows
their data-use entitlements to also automatically change.
- CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret for z/OS: Supports
Content-Aware IAM in the mainframe environment with new data
classification capabilities that help satisfy regulatory needs to
control data use. The new releases of CA ACF2 and CA Top
Secret for z/OS can be used to help classify data and ownership
according to legal and government regulations. This allows the
assignment of specific data classifications to critical resources
for purposes of access policy refinement and reporting. Other
security and administrative enhancements in these mainframe
products include: reporting, certificate management, role-based
security, operating system support, and protection of
assets.
"Whether you are operating in the distributed world or in a
mainframe environment, in order to secure information, comply with
regulations and reduce risk, you need to control users, their
access and what they can do with the information they access," said
Lina Liberti, vice president,
Security, CA Technologies. "We see Content-Aware IAM advancing even
further as we share intelligence across our entire IAM portfolio to
improve the quality of access decisions and help strengthen an
organization's information security posture."
Additional technologies that play a role in CA Technologies
approach to Content-Aware IAM include CA Role & Compliance
Manager, CA SiteMinder®, CA Access Control, and identity-based user
activity and compliance reporting.
To learn more about Content-Aware Identity and Access Management
solutions from CA Technologies, visit:
- On the Web: http://www.ca.com/us/it-security-solutions.aspx and
http://www.ca.com/us/mainframe-security.aspx
- Security Management Blog:
http://community.ca.com/blogs/iam/default.aspx
- On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CASecurity
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) is an IT management software and
solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from
mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative
products and services provide the insight and control essential for
IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of
the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving
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