Expands Novell solutions for compliance management by delivering industry's first comprehensive product suite that aligns IT and business to achieve compliance WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 21
WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novell today announced a
set of IT software products designed to manage and enforce policies governing
the way users access corporate data. The Novell(R) Access Governance Suite
delivers visibility, simplicity and accuracy to the complex process of
defining and managing user access. As a result, organizations can automate
their certification process and make business managers accountable for meeting
their compliance requirements.
Organizations are faced with managing thousands of identities for
employees, partners and customers. Additionally, compliance requirements
continue to add more layers of complexity, making it difficult for IT security
professionals to manage the entire process. Novell Access Governance Suite
enables IT security professionals to share the responsibility and process for
access management with the business line managers that have a better
understanding of who should have access to what information.
The Novell Access Governance Suite augments Novell's compliance management
solution portfolio to provide the industry's first comprehensive system that
manages the entire lifecycle of user access from policy creation, to policy
enforcement, helping organizations meet compliance requirements and mitigate
risk.
"IT provides tools that enable governance activities," said Kevin Kampman,
senior analyst at Burton Group. "However, IT departments are increasingly
being asked to enact business polices and automate business processes of which
they neither have knowledge of, nor control over. To close this divide, policy
decisions and compliance monitoring must be pushed to the business owners.
Identity management vendors have begun to address this issue through improved
workflow, delegated-administration, self-service, and access attestation
functionality."
The Novell Access Governance Suite consists of two products -- the Novell
Roles Lifecycle Manager and the Novell Compliance Certification Manager. The
suite bridges the gap between established security mandates and each
customer's unique business requirements. Both products are based on an OEM
relationship between Novell and Aveksa, an access governance software vendor.
The suite enables:
-- Visibility: Access data is collected, aggregated and normalized,
providing a composite view of a user's access across the entire enterprise.
-- Collaboration: Collaboration makes it possible to engage business unit
managers to participate in role design and take ownership for managing roles
over their lifecycle.
-- Automation: Full automation for access review, certification,
reporting, as well as access change management and access rights remediation.
-- Accountability: Accountability for governing user access can be driven
into the business, while the system of record provides a complete audit trail
of which users have access, how they got it and who authorized it.
"Our Access Governance Suite ensures organizations are able to understand
the true state of user access by providing unprecedented visibility into
existing data and providing an easily auditable record of that data," said Jim
Ebzery, senior vice president and general manager of Identity and Security
Management at Novell. "The system promotes collaboration between IT and
business interests to successfully understand and manage risk and compliance."
"By partnering with Aveksa, Novell is able to solve the access challenge
for organizations by providing an automated, policy-based and continuous
process for governing user access to information resources," said Arun Oberoi,
CEO of Aveksa. "We are excited to be part of the industry's first integrated
offering that combines access governance with Novell's industry leading
identity management and security enforcement technologies."
Availability
The Novell Access Governance Suite is available now. For more information,
visit http://www.novell.com/products/accessgovernancesuite/
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management
software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and
risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell
harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology
to work as one. For more information, visit http://www.novell.com.
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respective owners.
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