CA`s roadmap for eTrust Identity, Access Management extends global market leadership

Computer Associates International, Inc today unveiled its strategic roadmap for a complete, integrated and open identity and access management (IAM) architecture that will empower IT organisations to better secure their environments and successfully cope with increased complexity and a growing number of internal and external end-users.

The roadmap features an aggressive timeline for continued innovation in identity and access management, including important advances in federation, compliance and policy management - as well as continued development of technology acquired through acquisition of Netegrity and integration of the Netegrity product line into CA`s industry-leading eTrust IAM Suite. By continuing to invest aggressively in IAM, CA is uniquely enabling customers to optimise security, streamline administrative operations and respond more effectively to rapidly changing business needs.

"As a Netegrity customer, we believe we will benefit substantially from the considerable synergies with CA`s eTrust IAM technology set," said Karl Jackson, senior systems engineer, Office of Information Technology, Brigham Young University. "CA is clearly ready, willing and able to help us address our increasingly complex security, provisioning and compliance challenges."

At the RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco, CA announced key milestones for the roadmap and showcased integration between acquired Netegrity products and eTrust solutions. CA also announced the availability of eTrust IAM Suite r8, the industry`s most advanced and comprehensive IAM offering, and eTrust SiteMinder support for SAML 2.0 (see related releases).

"Deep integration between products in an identity and access management product suite simplifies administration, monitoring and audit processes for large enterprises," said Phil Schacter, vice-president and service director of the Burton Group. "CA is demonstrating that this level of integration is possible, and is setting a high standard in the market for similar capabilities in any identity and access management suite."

Key points of the roadmap are:

Integration of Netegrity Products into eTrust IAM Suite CA will fully integrate the Netegrity products into release 9 of its industry-leading eTrust IAM suite while continuing to expand individual product capabilities, with phased releases beginning this summer. eTrust IAM suite r9 will feature new releases of eTrust SiteMinder, eTrust TransactionMinder and eTrust IdentityMinder-Web Edition, as well as a best-of-breed provisioning offering, which will combine the strengths of eTrust IdentityMinder-eProvision and eTrust Admin.

At the RSA Conference 2005, CA is showcasing:

* Integrated single-sign on capabilities between eTrust SiteMinder and eTrust SSO, enabling end-users to streamline access from Web and non-Web applications.

* Integration of the auditing functions of eTrust SiteMinder, eTrust TransactionMinder and eTrust IdentityMinder-Web Edition with eTrust Security Command Centre to deliver an enterprise view of compliance status.

* Integration of eTrust IdentityMinder-Web Edition`s self-service and user administration functions with eTrust Admin empowering end-users to manage their identities across enterprise and federated environments.

CA`s strategy is focused on better aligning IT with business by extending the reach of provisioning solutions from a user perspective to total provisioning of devices, resources and services. CA will:

* Extend the features of eTrust Admin and eTrust IdentityMinder-eProvision to include federated and Web services provisioning for business-to-business enablement. This solution will be available in phases, with the first deliverable in summer 2005.

* Enhance and maintain both eTrust IdentityMinder-eProvision and eTrust Admin. CA will provide all customers with a smooth migration path to the new provisioning solution.

Building on eTrust TransactionMinder, CA will deliver a comprehensive Web services security solution later this year that combines identity-centric capabilities with network- and application-centric security mechanisms. Key new features will include schema validation, intelligent filtering and denial-of-service attack blocking. eTrust TransactionMinder will support Unicenter WSDM to provide an integrated Web services security and management solution, enabling customers to instantaneously define and process policies which incorporate identity-centric and service-level transactions.

CA will continue its aggressive identity federation strategy with the delivery of support for SAML 2.0 in eTrust SiteMinder in the summer of 2005. Future releases of eTrust solutions will provide comprehensive auditing and provisioning capabilities for federated environments. These solutions will also enable eTrust users to give their customers control over how their private information is shared within federated business partnerships.

eTrust solutions will provide robust policy management technology that enables customers to leverage XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) to bring disparate systems under common policy management. By delivering comprehensive auditing and provisioning capabilities for federated environments, these solutions will also enable employees and consumers to control how their private information is shared within federated business partnerships.

"CA understands that you need to know who is in your environment, what they can do and what they did - and that to achieve this goal, you need a common architecture that encompasses all of your users, resources and services," said Bilhar Mann, vice-president of eTrust Identity and Access Management. "Our leadership of the IAM market and our well-defined roadmap shows that we will continue to deliver on our vision - so that customers can maintain control of their IT environments and their IT overhead."