CA, Eurekify team to provide faster time-to-value in identity management deployments

CA, Inc has announced a deal with Eurekify that will give customers a more efficient approach for implementing an identity management solution to cost-effectively manage and control the identity lifecycle and demonstrate compliance.

The combination of CA Identity Manager with Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager provides customers with a system for "smart provisioning", which means customers have the ability to clean up the identity data first and then model the roles with the best available information. This facilitates effective automation of the provisioning process and enhances identity lifecycle management.

Under the agreement, CA will resell Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager, helping customers quickly discover, model, and manage corporate roles using Eurekify's advanced pattern recognition technology.

Eurekify role data will be fed into CA Identity Manager, which customers use to easily manage identity lifecycles from creation to modification to removal. Eurekify analytical capabilities will also weave easily into CA Identity Manager processes to recommend roles and check their consistency in real-time.

The agreement also simplifies the buying experience for customers who want to deal with a single vendor for procurement, deployment, service and support of their identity management needs.

"One of the largest challenges to any organisation deploying an identity management capability is defining, leveraging, and sustaining business roles," said Kevin Kampman, senior analyst at Burton Group. "Determining the appropriate business alignment and characteristics is an intensive effort, one that requires overall commitment, analytical skills, and appropriate technical capabilities for the discovery and sustenance of this information on an on-going basis. Role management complements identity management solutions by aligning business responsibilities to access privileges. Overall, these help to streamline administrative provisioning, auditing and attestation so that the right tools are matched to the right business expectations."

Absa Bank in South Africa, a CA and Eurekify customer, understands the value of an integrated CA and Eurekify solution. "Provisioning and de-provisioning is identified as a critical function for Absa Bank. In order to prevent role or segregation of duty violations, we must be able to ensure Absa users are provisioned from accurate information based on role," David Lello, CEO, Global Security Solutions and business integrator for information security at Absa Bank in South Africa, said. "CA Identity Manager handles the provisioning and Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager provides the means to clean user data and define the role to enable successful and accurate provisioning."

A leading identity management solution, CA Identity Manager automates identity-related processes ranging from user administration to provisioning. It does this for internal users, external users, and non-user identities on all platforms-from the mainframe to Web applications.

"As the clock ticks for organisations to address compliance issues, time to value for identity management solutions become even more important," said Bilhar Mann, CA senior vice-president, Security Management. "Eurekify's leadership in role modelling, mining and management processes is an ideal coupling with the strengths of CA Identity Manager. The complete solution allows organisations to streamline the management of identities and their subsequent access and strive for faster adherence to compliance mandates."

Eurekify, a pioneer in role modelling and role management, has leveraged advanced pattern recognition analysis in Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager to manage roles from role-and-rule mining to privileges clean up.

"With Eurekify's solution customers can quickly build and maintain role and compliance models that cover 80% of their entire set of access rights with business roles," said Dr Ron Rymon, Eurekify founder. "Through this agreement, Eurekify and CA offer the next generation of role-based identity management systems. Combined, we deliver a system that is comprehensive, cohesive, and very effective from both managerial and administrative viewpoints."