Novell Announces New Access Governance Suite
October 21 2008 - 12:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
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
/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/. Novell is a
registered trademark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. DATASOURCE: Novell, Inc. CONTACT: Amie Johnson
of Novell, +1-801-861-2893, Web site: http://www.novell.com/
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