NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
06/22/05
Today's focus: CA tool kit enables shared security controls to
be integrated with existing apps
Dear security.world@gmail.com,
In this issue:
* CA's eTrust Identity and Access Management Toolkit
* Links related to Identity Management
* Featured reader resource
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Network World Executive Guide: The Evolution of Management
Technologies
Network and systems technologies have an important new role -
helping networked systems live up to new business realities.
With growing and shifting demands, network executives are
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about the 'Future of Management', 'IT Service Management',
'Managing Security', and 'Best Practices'.
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Today's focus: CA tool kit enables shared security controls to
be integrated with existing apps
By Dave Kearns
Last time out I spoke about smaller, more tightly focused,
industry events (conferences, trade shows, user group meetings,
etc.). All of that reminded me to mention something that
occurred at the Gartner IT Summit in Washington, D.C. earlier
this month. At that conference, Computer Associates announced
its eTrust Identity and Access Management (IAM) Toolkit. While
it's aimed at commercial developers, in-house programmers might
benefit more from this release.
The tool kit allows developers to integrate shared security
controls to existing applications as well as add them in to new
business applications. By using these common security controls
across all enterprise applications, an organization can leverage
standardization to ease the pain of implementing necessary IAM
procedures.
The tool kit provides a software development kit (SDK) and
additional technologies that enable developers to embed a common
set of fine-grained, identity-based security controls within
applications, according to CA. Unlike some "tool kits," it can
be implemented with a full range of third-party provisioning and
identity management tools, as well as with CA's own eTrust
security solutions, to create a comprehensive enterprise
security and identity management environment.
The eTrust IAM Toolkit facilitates writing fine-grained access
policies defined in a structured language format. These access
policies can include time-based criteria like standard working
hours and/or dynamic criteria such as customer spending limits.
Policies can execute specific actions immediately following an
authorization check, allowing business and/or security
management workflows to be driven based on
authentication/authorization results.
The tool kit also implements performance optimization by
allowing policies to be evaluated locally, minimizing external
authorization calls, and allowing authorization checks measured
at the rate of thousands per second.
To meet different auditing requirements, the eTrust IAM Toolkit
gives the user total flexibility to define what events to
capture. It thus enables them to apply a consistent audit format
across all of their applications.
There's a lot more to the toolkit, of course, and if you're at
all interested (and many of you should be) you should visit
<http://ca.com/etrust/iam_toolkit> to learn more.
Speaking of small conferences, I want to point you to a new
meeting that's just been announced to take place in conjunction
with next month's Catalyst conference in San Diego. On Tuesday,
July 12, Radiant Logic will hold its first Virtual Directory
User Meeting with presentations by users of Radiant Logic's
Virtual Directory Engine (VDE), company CEO Michel Prompt and
even a curmudgeon or two. Details and registration at
<http://www.radiantlogic.com/ns/news/Catalyst2005.shtml> and I
hope to see you there.
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To contact: Dave Kearns
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.
Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these
respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.
Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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This newsletter is sponsored by Concord Communications
Network World Executive Guide: The Evolution of Management
Technologies
Network and systems technologies have an important new role -
helping networked systems live up to new business realities.
With growing and shifting demands, network executives are
balancing business goals with prioritizing IT projects. Read
about the 'Future of Management', 'IT Service Management',
'Managing Security', and 'Best Practices'.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=107037
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ARCHIVE LINKS
Archive of the Identity Management newsletter:
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/index.html
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Fischer International
Gartner & Fischer: Leveraging the Future of Identity Management
and Compliance Gartner VP Roberta Witty and Fischer
International CTO Steve Tillery chart the future of Identity
Management and Compliance. What should every business do in
2005? What initiatives should be put on the back burner? What
technologies will finally simplify compliance and reduce cost?
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=106819
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