CA Technologies positioned in Leaders' quadrant of two Magic Quadrants

CA Technologies (CA: NASDAQ) has announced that it has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders' quadrant of two Gartner reports: Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance (IAG)*, and Magic Quadrant for User Administration and Provisioning.

“As data moves to the cloud, identity and access management grows in importance within organisations. Our team is working to ensure we deliver the functionality, ease of use, and multiple choices of delivery - on premise or cloud - that simplify IAM adoption for our customers,” said Mike Denning, general manager, Security business at CA Technologies.

“We consider our positioning in two IAM-related Leaders' quadrants confirmation that we are delivering on our mission to take our rich and broad portfolio of security technologies and deliver unique and transformative IAM capabilities for our customers.”

According to the report, the Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance: “The IAG market addresses customer requirements that are beyond identity administration. IAG tools seek to deliver IAM directly to the business or end-user, rather than the operational IT administrator.”

Gartner analysts anticipate “the growing need for identity and access management governance will cause identity and access governance solutions to become the lead focus of two out of three IAM projects by 2013, up from one in three today”.

CA Role & Compliance Manager was evaluated for this report.

“User administration solutions manage identities and their attributes across systems, applications and resources. Buyers seek to demonstrate regulatory compliance while reducing project deployment times and costs,” analysts wrote in the Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning.

“By 2016, user administration solutions will expand functionally to include a subset of identity and access governance (IAG) functionality as well as multiple means of delivery (that is, cloud computing).”

Gartner analysts evaluated the following CA IAM solutions for this report: CA Identity Manager, CA Role & Compliance Manager and CA User Activity Reporting Module for this report.

To receive a complimentary copy of the reports, please visit: http://bit.ly/xZ3lgb to access the Magic Quadrant for User Administration / Provisioning and http://bit.ly/xgreBu to access the Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance. To learn more about CA Technologies Identity and Access Management solutions, visit http://www.ca.com/us/it-security-solutions.aspx.

* Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance”, Earl Perkins, Perry Carpenter, December 15, 2011.
** Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning”, Perry Carpenter, Earl Perkins, December 22, 2011.

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