"Defending against increasing security threats and meeting compliance
requirements in a complex and heterogeneous IT environment are two of the
biggest challenges faced by today's enterprises," said
To combat security threats and maintain compliance with the myriad of internal and external audit requirements, many organizations have implemented various user provisioning, access control and Web access management systems. Despite the efficiencies in deploying these systems, businesses are realizing they have created silos of policy and security data that often require manual review to prove compliance. The Novell Compliance Management Platform allows organizations to seamlessly integrate provisioning and access management policy with security monitoring to not only tie security to identity information, but also automatically detect, report on and remediate inappropriate and suspicious activities in real-time.
"Compliance management is one of the more complex IT challenges faced by
our clients in today's global marketplace," said
Reducing the cost and complexity of compliance management
The Compliance Management Platform offers many features designed to decrease deployment costs, lower total cost of ownership and dramatically reduce the time required to utilize provisioning, access management and security solutions. It improves governance and security by enabling common access policies across all identity repositories and provides automated validation of preset business rules. The Compliance Management Platform automatically logs all network activity and delivers compliance reports in an audit-ready format.
Consisting of a prepackaged set of products and integration resources, the Compliance Management Platform delivers all the necessary technology to accurately monitor and demonstrate compliance levels. The products and modules are integrated into a single platform to offer a seamless solution, but also work well as individual products in a mixed-vendor IT environment. The Compliance Management Platform includes:
-- Latest versions of Novell's flagship identity and security management solutions -- Products included in the platform are Novell Identity Manager 3.6 for user provisioning, roles based access control and password management; Novell Sentinel(TM) 6.1 for real-time security and event monitoring; and Novell Access Manager(TM) 3.0 for Web access management.
-- Identity-driven security and information event monitoring -- The only solution to closely tie identity to security and event monitoring, the Compliance Management Platform offers an identity tracking solution pack for Novell Sentinel that includes an integrated set of Sentinel correlation rules, reports and associated content to add identity visibility and tracking to validate compliance with company policy.
-- Indispensable identity management tools -- Novell offers an extended set of tools to simplify deployment for customers and partners. Analyzer for Novell Identity Manager 1.0 is a data analysis tool to manage and govern data across disparate sources. Novell Designer for Identity Manager allows customers to more quickly realize the value of the Compliance Management Platform and deploy policies intuitively in a business context without the necessity of coding or scripting. These solutions provide all the tools necessary to complete the analysis, cleansing, reconciliation and reporting of identity related data throughout the enterprise.
-- Identity resource kit -- Identity Manager Resource Kit 1.2 is a culmination of Novell's years of experience and vast knowledge deploying identity and security solutions to nearly 6,000 customers globally. It is an out-of-the-box set of provisioning policies, documentation, success practices and guides designed to reduce implementation costs and accelerate the deployment of business solutions.
"The Novell Compliance Management Platform is designed for enterprises
that have to successfully pass compliance audits, assure the integrity of
their IT infrastructure and demonstrate that their business policies are being
enforced and implemented," said
Availability
The Novell Compliance Management Platform is available now. For more information, visit http://www.novell.com/products/compliancemanagementplatform.
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 its 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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