Johannesburg, 26 Apr 2007
Novell has announced that Honeywell is integrating Novell's flagship identity management product into Honeywell's access control security platform, to help organisations better safeguard their physical and logical assets.
The two companies have collaborated to deliver a tightly-integrated, secure access and provisioning solution for physical and logical assets that address the requirements of high-security businesses, such as financial services and health care institutions.
As a result, organisations can automatically provision and control user access across disparate systems, while also gaining a holistic view of access occurrences for increased security and compliance.
The integration of the Novell product into Honeywell's SmartPlus Identity Manager solution reduces cost and increases productivity, by simplifying the complex process of manually assigning privileges and managing identity information across several systems.
IT managers have the ability to automatically synchronise user data and passwords across multiple facilities and systems, maintain a single point of management for all users, update role changes and terminate user access. The end result is tighter security controls across all organisational systems.
"Government regulations and increased security concerns are driving businesses to co-ordinate physical and logical security management," said Allison Singh, systems engineering manager at Novell South Africa. "Organisations looking for a more co-ordinated approach to user access management have been challenged to figure out how to easily obtain and integrate both parts of the system. Our collaboration with Honeywell allows for the distribution of a combined physical and logical security management solution from a single source, and it gives customers the confidence that both offerings work well together."
A flagship product in Novell's portfolio of identity and security management solutions, Novell Identity Manager integrates with Honeywell's new SmartPlus release, to provide organisations with a complete identity-enabled infrastructure to automate the management of roles and secure access to information and facilities. Novell Identity Manager manages all user identities and protects information resources and business systems from unauthorised access. Honeywell's SmartPlus solution manages all physical access control, alarm monitoring and badging systems.
"This is the first integrated solution to provide organisations with this level of protection for their intellectual and physical property," said John Lorenty, general manager of Honeywell Systems Group. "Our collaboration with Novell makes it easier to combine physical and logical security access, allowing our customers to better manage security risks."
The integrated physical and logical solution is available now from Honeywell. Visit www.fipssolutions.com for more information.
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