CA World: CA updates security management

[a href="http://www.ca.com" target="_blank"]CA[/a] today unveiled three new products within its security portfolio aimed at supporting the move within enterprises towards more web-based IT operations.

It said the more critical data is used beyond the firewall against a backdrop of increased regulation and a rapidly changing security threat landscape, the more critical those web and service oriented architecture (SOA) based systems will become to assuring information security.

The new products are designed to strengthen the vendor’s identity and access management (IAM) tools, with the introduction of CA Federation Manager, CA SOA Security Manager and an integrated product for secure web business enablement (SWBE) that features multiple CA IAM products.

Dave Hansen, CA's Security Management corporate senior vice president, said the ability to comply with various regulations, understand who has access to what data and audit that accessibility from a role-based perspective were the biggest security concerns for IT organisations today.

“Organisations’ IT operations have grown to be more web-based and have become critical to their business success…[so] today’s announcements strengthen our IAM portfolio to provide our customers with the tools they need to confidently grow that business even more,” he said during a press conference at [a href="http://www.caworld.com" target="_blank"]CA World[/a] in Las Vegas.

For example, the CA Federation Manager product succeeds CA SiteMinder Federation Security Services with a new user interface and enables customers and partners to connect to and share information with an organisation in a more cost-effective, out-of-the-box way.

Hansen said, with this product, CA would not charge customers for federated endpoints as some other vendors do, helping to remove any cost-based objections on the part of participating customers or partners. “We offer only a single-use licence for partners to talk back to federated services,” he said.

CA SOA Security Manager has been designed to abstract SOA-based security from the underlying services and provide both content-based web security, including authentication, authorisation, federation and audit capabilities, as well as some defence against XML-based web threats and support for 64-bit applications and IPv6.

CA SWBE has been designed to offer customers a packaged IAM product offering that includes the Federation Manager and SOA Security Manager. Hansen said this product would drive CA forward in a fast growing web-security area that had been experiencing double digit market growth year-on-year.

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