One of the World's Top Ten Largest Airports Improves Operational Efficiency and Security With Novell Identity Manager
September 30 2008 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Operator of Frankfurt Airport manages thousands of identities,
remains compliant with government regulations and saves nearly half
a million dollars annually using Novell Identity Manager WALTHAM,
Mass., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The operator of the
world's eighth largest airport and Germany's largest employer,
Fraport AG, has implemented Novell(R) identity and security
management solutions to achieve a single point of control for
thousands of identities and secure IT resources at Frankfurt
Airport. Using Novell, Fraport now boasts a single, integrated
solution for authentication, authorization, identity consolidation
and rapid, role-based provisioning for 10,000 employees and
partners. As a result, Fraport is able to continue its ambitious
growth plan for the airport, remain compliant and save almost a
half million dollars annually in third party IT services. Fraport
is engaged in a long-term project to transform Frankfurt Airport
into not only a major transportation hub, but also as a center for
business and retail. In addition to its thousands of employees,
Fraport must also work with numerous external partners, which will
only increase as expansion continues. Novell's user provisioning
solution, Novell Identity Manager, provides Fraport with a scalable
framework for identity and security management, including access
control and validation across a complex organizational structure,
ensuring compliance with government regulations and internal
policies. "As we begin construction on a major third terminal to
Frankfurt Airport, we will be increasing staffing levels
tremendously," said Dr. Roland Krieg, chief information officer at
Fraport AG. "Novell Identity Manager is able to meet our identity
and security needs today as well as the future increase of users,
both as employees and contractors. Novell provides the automatic
provisioning and deprovisioning across different systems and
applications that we require in such a dynamic, changing
environment." In addition to optimizing user management tasks and
automatically synchronizing changes across all systems, Novell
Identity Manager provides clear, fully auditable approval workflows
that will ensure Fraport's corporate policies are implemented
reliably. Novell Identity Manager also allows Fraport IT staff to
assign access rights at the touch of a button and enables users to
reset their own passwords, saving third party helpdesk fees. As
Fraport increases the number of applications and functional areas
integrated into the identity management solution and as regulatory
requirements change, the company will introduce role-based
provisioning, with approval workflows secured using smartcards.
"Fraport is experiencing the same type of growth that many of our
customers are facing," said Jim Ebzery, senior vice president and
general manager of Identity and Security Management at Novell. "As
organizations look to add users in the future, a scalable identity
and security management framework is crucial to secure resources
and remain compliant. Novell Identity Manager is able to provide an
automatic and auditable single identity vault for companies with
changing business environments and requirements." For more
information about Novell identity and security management
solutions, visit http://www.novell.com/identityandsecurity. About
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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
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