LAS VEGAS, Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA WORLD – CA
Technologies today announced two new identity and access management
(IAM) cloud security services that expand its portfolio of
IAM-as-a-service solutions. These services mark another step in the
company's strategy to help customers use and provide cloud and
traditional business services that enable IT to be more agile and
operate at the speed the business demands.
The new cloud solutions, CA IdentityMinder as-a-Service and CA
FedMinder as-a-Service, join the company's existing advanced
authentication services as part of the new CA CloudMinder™ family
of IAM cloud solutions.
"Organizations are moving their applications to the cloud for
cost reduction, for simplicity, and to better meet the rapidly
changing demands of the business. While organizations strive 'to do
more with less,' they are discovering that moving to the cloud can
provide greater capabilities in an era of flat IT budgets," said
Mark Diodati, research vice
president, Gartner Inc. "Organizations are leveraging identity
management as a service (IDaaS) offerings — turnkey, productized
capabilities that can be run on-premises or in a hosted,
multi-tenant environment — to reduce costs, accommodate the rapidly
changing demands of the business, and better focus on
organizational priorities."*
CA IdentityMinder as-a-Service and CA FedMinder as-a-Service
offer all the benefits of a cloud deployment model, including
elasticity to expand or contract service support as needed, shorter
deployment cycles and cost-savings as a result of reduced IT
administration.
"As the IT environment shifts to include cloud applications and
services alongside traditional on-premise applications, identity
and access management also must shift," said Mike Denning, general manager, Security
business, CA Technologies. "The hybrid application environment adds
a level of complexity that IT must manage and secure in a way that
balances the risk / reward scenario for the organization. That
balance may require both on-premise deployments of IAM solutions
and cloud-delivered IAM security services. We are providing our
proven IAM solutions the way the customers tell us they want them –
either on-premise, as a service or a mix of both."
The new services provide customers several key capabilities for
increasing security and improving operational efficiencies. They
offer integration with CA AuthMinder as-a-Service, empowering
customers to add strong authentication for accessing CA
IdentityMinder as-a-Service and CA FedMinder as-a-Service. This
supplements standard user name and password authentication. In
addition, the services support customization of the web user
interface to help customers meet their organizational requirements,
and ease end-user adoption and training.
CA IdentityMinder as-a-Service
CA IdentityMinder as-a-Service offers robust identity management
capabilities including:
- User Management – Streamlines efficiencies by offering
self-service capabilities so users can manage attributes of their
own identities. They can reset passwords, request access to
resources, and manage both profile and security information.
- Provisioning – Offers hybrid capabilities to provision
and deprovision users to both on-premise and cloud-based services
and applications. It also offers the capability to add, delete and
modify users and their identity attributes.
- Access Requests – Automates and streamlines user access
requests for on-premise or cloud applications by leveraging
out-of-the-box approval and fulfillment workflows.
- Reporting and Auditing – Aids in compliance processes by
simplifying reporting on user activity and access, new identities
or existing identity attribute changes, and service levels.
CA FedMinder as-a-Service
CA FedMinder as-a-Service helps authorized users within one
organization securely access the data and applications or cloud
services of another organization by offering:
- Single sign-on across domains – Provides single sign-on
and single logout across federated security domains to both cloud
and on-premise applications.
- Standards-based federation – Supports Security Assertion
Markup Language (SAML) 1.1 and 2.0, and facilitates federation to a
wide range of partner websites.
- Identity provider control – Provides configurable
policies that allow administrators to determine what kind of
information to share with partners and under what conditions.
CA CloudMinder Portfolio
CA CloudMinder IAM as-a-Service solutions are highly scalable
and configurable solutions that provide customers the option to
support their IAM initiatives with cloud services. They support
customers as they transition from simply managing IT to delivering
business services. CA Technologies applies a unique value roadmap
to each customer's business goals to deliver Business Service
Innovation: new levels of speed, innovation, performance and
cost/risk efficiencies.
The portfolio includes the new cloud solutions announced today,
CA AuthMinder as-a-Service (formerly CA Arcot A-OK for
WebFort®), and CA RiskMinder as-a-Service (formerly CA
Arcot A-OK for RiskFort™) which provides risk-based
authentication to protect against breaches and fraud.
* Gartner, Inc., "Market Profile: Identity Management as a
Service (IDaaS)," by Mark Diodati,
Sept. 20, 2011.
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