Computer Associates announces enhanced eTrust security administration solution

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the world`s leading eBusiness solutions provider, has announced the immediate release of eTrust Admin 1.6.

eTrust Admin enables an enterprise to protect eBusiness systems by consolidating management of accounts, passwords and resources across a broad range of intranet and extranet platforms as well as allowing applications to be centrally managed.

User and resource administration across all platforms deployed to support today`s eBusinesses are tremendously complex, expensive and error-prone. Raoul Hunter, business technology manager at Computer Associates Africa explains, "eTrust Admin enables users and their privileges to be managed consistently, as eBusiness models open the internal IT resources across large heterogeneous organizations to a significantly larger group of people."

It is now easier for business managers and security administrators to control what users can access by leveraging the powerful eTrust Admin role-based policy controls. It is also simpler to enforce security standards such as strong password controls across the enterprise. Hunter continues, "The new release of eTrust Admin enables delegation of the day-to-day operations of user additions, password resets and user terminations to business groups through an intuitive Web-based interface."

"One of the most frequent reasons for security breaches is poor management of critical internal systems," says Simon Perry, CA vice president, security solutions. "The problem becomes greater as eBusinesses increase in complexity -- poor administration leaves back doors wide open for outside hackers to steal sensitive data or disrupt business. eTrust Admin offers an immediate solution for enhancing security management."

The new release of eTrust Admin supports a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) interface, which enables Human Resources and eBusiness applications to securely leverage the eTrust Admin infrastructure for all user management needs. eTrust Admin acts as a bridge between the LDAP-ready infrastructure of today, and the many existing platforms and applications, which don`t support LDAP.

"eBusiness means opening up internal IT to many external customers, suppliers, and partners," says Chris Christiansen, IDC, director, Internet Security program. "Directory-enabled security management solutions such as CA`s eTrust Admin ensure flexible management of access profiles and, more importantly, enable the underlying administration infrastructure to rapidly scale as eBusinesses expand."

eTrust Admin manages users and resources on a wide variety of platforms and applications including Windows NT, Windows 2000, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, IRIX, Tru64 Unix, OpenVMS, Netware, CA-Top Secret, CA-ACF2, MS Exchange, Lotus Notes Domino, CA TNG Security, eTrust Single Sign-on, eTrust Access Control and RACF.

Release 1.6 of eTrust Admin is available as an upgrade for users of DirectIT and the former Platinum AutoSecure ESA and Memco Proxima Manager. The additional eTrust Admin features are also available as Unicenter TNG Directory Management Option (DMO) 1.6.

CA`s eTrust delivers innovative technologies that support the enablement of eBusiness by securing IT assets. Hunter concludes, "This comprehensive security suite enhances return on opportunity for any eBusiness with solutions that include risk assessment, attack detection, loss prevention and more. eTrust solutions support key industry standards and leverage the powerful services found in the Unicenter TNG Framework."