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CA Inc: CA Access Control Improves Ability to Address Compliance
Requirements and Helps Avoid Data Loss Through Enhanced Infrastructure;
CA Access Control Premium Edition Further Strengthens CA's Position in
Host Access Management
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
RDATE:09062008
ISLANDIA, N.Y -- CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the release of
CA Access Control Premium Edition.
Offering cross-platform creation, deployment and management of complex,
specific, role-based access controls for servers, CA Access Control
Premium Edition delivers capabilities that help facilitate customers'
IT security and compliance with legal, corporate and government
regulations.
CA Access Control Premium Edition is one of three CA Access Control
Premium Edition announced today. These three products--CA Identity
Manager, CA Access Control Premium Edition and a new product, CA
Security Compliance Manager--join seven other CA IAM products announced
in October and November 2007 as part of CA IAM r12. The IAM r12
products are designed to help manage the identity lifecycle and provide
robust IT security controls, analysis and proof of compliance, and
automation of compliance processes.
"There are two 'Cs' often associated with identity and access
management initiatives: Compliance, which is one of the main business
drivers for an IAM deployment, and Complexity, which can be one of the
biggest challenges organizations face as they roll out a solution,"
said Dave Arbeitel, vice president of product management, CA Security
Management. "The CA IAM r12 products announced today address both of
those 'C' issues by delivering new IAM capabilities that help
organizations address various regulatory mandates, and that ease the
complexity often associated with IAM deployments."
CA Access Control Premium Edition delivers several important
capabilities designed to help facilitate customers' various compliance
challenges associated with IT security:
* Policy-Based Compliance Reporting - Producing event-based reports
about past actions is not sufficient for compliance audits today.
Demonstrating compliance also requires the ability to proactively
report and highlight policy status at any given time. CA Access Control
Premium Edition delivers compliance reporting through:
* Out-of-the-Box Policy Reports that proactively aggregate
cross-platform data and show detailed information on entitlements and
the current status of policies. These reports complement event-based
auditing to monitor compliance requirements and highlight existing
discrepancies.
* Open Policy Reporting that allows for data feeds to third party
relational database management systems for additional custom reporting.
Interoperability with external systems allows reporting flexibility to
help meet internal standards or auditor requests.
* Advanced Enterprise Policy Management - CA Access Control Premium
Edition has optimized the policy management infrastructure to
accommodate large deployments and improve operational efficiency. This
helps reduce deployment and maintenance costs while increasing the
flexibility to handle new security requirements.
* An Advanced Policy Architecture scales policy management to large and
diverse server environments using an automated distribution and
end-point update system. This enables the management of thousands of
endpoints from a single server.
* Logical Host Grouping clarifies complex, cross-platform policy
environments and simplifies administration tasks by allowing
administrators to construct logical host groups and deployment rules
for streamlined policy deployment, versioning, and change management.
* A Common Web User Interface consolidates information about policies
and host groups from all platforms and facilitates policy
administration from a centralized management interface.
* Managing Access to Virtual Environments - CA Access Control Premium
Edition now helps provide protection for an extended list of operating
system versions running as guests within a virtual machine as well as
the operating systems hosting and managing virtualization sessions.
* Platforms Supported: VMWare ESX, Sun Solaris(TM) 10 Zones, Microsoft
Virtual Server, Linux XEN, IBM AIX
LPAR, HP-UX VPAR and z/VM .
* Standards Support - CA Access Control Premium Edition provides
support for IPv6, the newest version of Internet Protocol which expands
the internet address space, and FIPS140-2, which outlines U.S.
government security cryptography standards.
"We've been working with CA for several years to support our IT
management across multiple IT disciplines, including security and
identity and access management," said Martin Garn, director of Platform
Engineering, Brigham Young University. "This release of CA Access
Control includes several enhancements that address our needs from a
reporting position, and the updated user interface to simplify policy
management across platforms helped cut administration time during our
beta test. We look forward to our official roll-out."
Customers seeking assistance with their identity and access management
deployments can turn to various CA business partners ranging from
global systems integrators to specialized identity management solution
providers, or to CA Services which offers Rapid Implementation services
that take advantage of best practices and methodologies from hundreds
of successful security deployments. CA business partners and CA
Services help enable rapid time to value for enterprise deployments of
CA Access Control and entire identity and access management systems.
CA Access Control is among eight new and updated products announced by
CA today that help customers lower IT operations costs, manage risk,
and improve security and compliance processes. The products support
CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision by providing customers like
Colruyt with the capabilities to better govern, manage and secure IT
for better business results. According to Colruyt, the consolidated
reporting in CA Access Control helps it be more transparent in its
security and compliance initiatives.
CA Access Control Premium Edition is available today. For further
information about CA's Identity and Access Management products, please
visit http://ca.com/us/it-security-solutions.aspx.
About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA), one of the world's largest independent software
companies, provides software solutions to unify and simplify(TM) IT
management. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and
expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure
IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage.
Founded in 1976, CA serves customers in virtually every country in the
world.
Copyright 2008 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y.
11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced
herein belong to their respective companies. Sun and Solaris are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the
United States and other countries. Microsoft is a registered trademark
of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
IBM, AIX and z/VM are registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
Each new feature or functionality included in future releases is
subject to change based on a number of factors, including but not
limited to internal and external beta testing, development plan
changes, and feedback from customers and users. Accordingly, the
product may have different features and/or functionality than stated in
this document. CA does not provide legal advice. No software product
referenced herein shall serve as a substitute for the reader's
compliance with any laws (including but not limited to any act, statue,
regulation, rule, directive, standard, policy, administrative order,
executive order, etc.
(collectively, "Laws")) referenced herein or any contract obligations
with any third parties. The reader should consult with competent legal
counsel regarding any such Laws or contract obligations.
CONTACT: Leanne Agurkis, Press Contact, CA, Inc
Tel: +1 386 738 1912
e-mail: leanne.agurkis@ca.com
WWW: http://www.ca.com
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