SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference – CA
Technologies (CA: NASDAQ) today announced advancements to further
build-out its Content-Aware Identity and Access management (IAM)
vision and deliver a security solution for Microsoft® SharePoint®
to help improve information security, reduce risk and meet
compliance mandates.
Traditional IAM stops at the point of access. CA Technologies
Content-Aware IAM vision, a next-generation approach, takes IAM a
step further to help control users, their access and how they
handle information. This innovative approach helps organizations
protect critical information from inappropriate use or
disclosure.
"Balancing business productivity and enablement with security
and data protection is one of the top priorities for the Chief
Security Officer. This is made more difficult by today's
collaborative environments that include extended teams from within
and outside an organization," said Mike
Denning, general manager, Security, CA Technologies. "For
example, there are more than 65,000 Microsoft SharePoint customers,
which equates to a lot of users accessing a lot of data. The
challenge is to make sure the right users access the right data and
handle it in the right way, which requires a layered security
approach that includes Content-Aware Identity and Access Management
from CA Technologies."
To help address these challenges, CA Technologies is adding
capabilities and integrating new releases of CA SiteMinder® and CA
DataMinder™ (formerly CA DLP), to deliver a Content-Aware security
solution and help organizations protect the information stored,
accessed and used in the Microsoft SharePoint environment. The CA
SiteMinder and CA DataMinder updates, and resulting solution for
SharePoint, will be available in March.
"Organizations are challenged with unknown
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that exists within
documents residing across the enterprise," said Jeremy Britton, director, security & privacy
services, Deloitte & Touche LLP. "The ability to identify and
classify potential data risks in content, and control access based
on the levels of risk, allows organizations to more effectively
manage regulatory compliance and protection of sensitive
data."
CA Technologies Solution for
Microsoft SharePoint
As organizations expand their use of Microsoft
SharePoint, they may face accelerated growth of
siloed SharePoint instances, the proliferation of sensitive data
across the SharePoint environment and increased compliance
mandates.
CA DataMinder includes CA DataMinder™ Classification, which
dynamically scans, locates and classifies sensitive content stored
within Microsoft SharePoint, including intellectual property,
financial information and PII such as social security numbers,
credit card numbers and other employee relevant data. CA SiteMinder
12.5 will be enhanced to use the content classification information
from CA DataMinder as input for access policies to more precisely
determine whether a user should be granted access to a document.
This combination will provide more fine-grained and better defined
access control, helping to improve the security of data without
hampering productivity.
CA Technologies security solution for Microsoft
SharePointwill provide the following
capabilities:
- Convenient authentication through CA SiteMinder single sign-on,
authentication, authorization and auditing;
- Content-aware access management with automatic data discovery,
classification and content-aware access control; and
- Information lifecycle control for SharePoint data from
creation, storage, access, distribution and disposal.
"We have supported many implementations for IAM systems – all
improving security postures for those customers. A next-generation
IAM approach that classifies and flags documents with sensitive
content and then associates identity and access policies with that
content will further enhance information protection," said
Jason Wilcox, manager, Security
Practice at YASH Technologies, a leading technologies and services
outsourcing partner. "We are excited about the advancements that CA
Technologies is making in the market, and look forward to working
with our clients to advance the way they implement identity and
access management."
CA Technologies first delivered capability for Content-Aware IAM
by associating content and data policies with identities and roles
managed by CA IdentityMinder™ (formerly CA Identity Manager). This
helps to better control and protect information as users and groups
change within organizations. By enabling CA SiteMinder to use
content classification information, data security is strengthened
by adding the access element.
In addition, as organizations begin to shift from IT
rationalization and optimization to deliver business service
innovation and growth, CA Technologies Content-Aware IAM
technologies help enable and secure organizations to achieve
business outcomes such as speed, cost and risk efficiencies and
improved performance. The key is to strike the balance between
security and business enablement.
The CA SiteMinder 12.5 release will include a number of
additional core improvements including simplified management,
support for Web 2.0 / Identity 2.0 technologies and enhanced
federation management. Visit the CA Security Management blog for
further details on the new releases of CA SiteMinder and CA
DataMinder.
CA IAM Solutions Adopt the "Minder" Brand
Building on the strong brand equity of CA SiteMinder, CA
Technologies has renamed the products and solutions in its security
portfolio using the "Minder" naming convention. Visit
http://bit.ly/wtzJCN to see the new names.
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and
solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from
mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative
products and services provide the insight and control essential for
IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT
ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at
www.ca.com.
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