New modules from Courion, Avatier

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
08/24/05
Today's focus: New modules from Courion, Avatier

Dear security.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* Courion and Avatier flesh out their software offerings
* Links related to Identity Management
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: New modules from Courion, Avatier

By Dave Kearns

Today I want to take note of a couple of recent product
announcements that I've been meaning to talk about.

At last month's Catalyst conference, I had the chance to sit
down with the always-interesting folks from Courion. What the
company wanted to discuss wasn't a new product, just an
additional piece for its AccountCourier provisioning system.

AssetLink might be termed the "missing link" for provisioning -
it connects provisioning with asset management systems to enable
extended provisioning to, and the seamless management of, non-IT
assets. As the press release said, this is to "ensure
transparent compliance, enable business velocity and achieve
sustained efficiencies."

I don't know about "business velocity" but I do know that there
are lots of non-IT assets (phones, desks, cars, credit cards and
on and on) that should really be a part of a provisioning system
and absolutely need to be part of your de-provisioning system.

AssetLink isn't a stand-alone product - it's only available with
AccountCourier - but it's a very welcome addition to that
product. Visit Courion to learn more about these tools, and
perhaps you'll want to sign up for the Courion Enterprise
Provisioning Fitness Test
<http://www.courion.com/agility/index.asp?CMP=ILC-5YF373728951>,
a free half-day consulting engagement. Courion experts will
assess your current provisioning processes and infrastructure
through interviews and discovery tools, then you'll receive a
thorough appraisal - your "fitness score" with analysis,
explanations, conclusions, and recommendations to further
improve your "business agility." It's free, so what have you got
to lose?

The other product I want to mention is Avatier's Phone Reset
Suite, an add-on module for the AIMS (Avatier Identity
Management Server) platform. This new module extends AIMS's user
provisioning and end-to-end password management by offering
three different methods for resetting passwords over the phone:
1) using a predetermined personal identification number (PIN);
2) using voice print matching; or 3) utilizing an RSA SecurID
token <http://www.rsasecurity.com/node.asp?id=1156>.

This self-service software should reduce dependency on IT
resources while increasing employee productivity. A
globetrotting mobile workforce won't have to wait for the help
desk to reset their access. Additional features of the Phone
Reset Suite can enforce internal security policies for secure
password selection and enable organizations to remain compliant
with legislative regulations through user identity verification,
logging and reporting of all password changes.

There's a certain symmetry about this, too. We often talk about
the three forms of authentication - "what you know" (password or
PIN), "what you have" (token, such as the SecurID) and "what you
are" (biometric, such as a voice print). Avatier's new module
gracefully handles all three.

Visit the Phone Reset Suite Web page
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv5749> to learn more and
download a demo. It might not be what you need, but then again
it might.

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Cisco preparing management play
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv5750>

2. IT staff shortage looming
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv5299>

3. Questions surround smartphone security
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv5751>

4. Google goes berserk
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv5297>

5. CLECs play a new tune
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv5752>

Today's most-forwarded story:

IT staff shortage looming
<http://www.networkworld.com/nldsv5753>
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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>
_______________________________________________________________
This newsletter is sponsored by HP

Is password management, user management, implementing single
sign-on or sustaining compliance without going broke causing you
to lose sleep? Manage identities and passwords, mitigate audit
risk, establish a strong privacy compliance management system
and centrally track transactions with HP's identity management
solution. Learn how -- download a whitepaper now.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=110157
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