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With security continuing to be a pressing topic in the cloud environment, CA Technologies has released two new identity access management as a service solutions, as part of its CloudMinder suite.
CA notes that organisations face increased pressure to do more with less to respond to market opportunities, while dealing with increased security concerns as users, applications and access methods become more diverse.
It sees cloud-enabled services as a pivotal opportunity for businesses to outsource the infrastructure and accompanying maintenance of traditional security solutions, while maintaining necessary control over users and their access to cloud and on-premise applications.
CA CloudMinder offers identity and access management (IAM) solutions as hosted cloud services, and the two new products, IdentityMinder as a service and FedMinder as a service, extend the company's authentication capabilities.
“As the IT environment shifts to include cloud applications and services alongside traditional on-premise applications, identity and access management must also shift,” said Mike Denning, GM of security at CA Technologies.
The new solutions integrate with CA AuthMinder as a service, allowing users to add strong authentication for accessing IdentityMinder as a service and FedMinder as a service. This supplements standard username and password authentication. The solutions also support customisation of the Web user interface to help meet organisational requirements and ease end-user adoption and training.
As businesses expand beyond the boundaries of applications within their own control to cloud-based services and partner-hosted sites, access needs to be both convenient and secure. According to CA, FedMinder as a service combines an identity federation solution with a cloud-based deployment model to speed time to value while improving the user experience.
It helps authorised users in one organisation securely access the data and applications of another business via single sign-on across domains and standards-based federation. It also provides policies to help administrators decide what kind of information to share with partners and under what conditions.
Denning says this forms part of a unified approach to security, which is moving from a 'no' to a 'know' approach.
“It's no longer about keeping people out but about the security of knowledge, which allows organisations to become proactive instead of reactive or prohibitive in their security solutions.”
* Lezette Engelbrecht is hosted in Las Vegas by CA Technologies Southern Africa.
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