Flexibility for Managing Identities
Netegrity, provider of identity and access management solutions, announced a major release of its Netegrity IdentityMinder solution.
The latest edition features support for relational databases, a new Web service interface, and further flexibility for user management.
Steve Kesler, Director of Information Security for Reynolds and Reynolds, commented: "Web-based customer services play a major role in our business. Netegrity IdentityMinder provides Reynolds with a flexible solution for managing the identities of thousands of employees within our dealership customer base. With Netegrity's technology, we've been able to cost-effectively offer those customers the ability to assign and manage secure single sign-on access to business applications within our Myreyrey.com portal."
New features in IdentityMinder Web Edition 6.0 include:
* Relational Database Support
IdentityMinder now delivers user management services such as self-service administration, workflow, delegation, auditing, and role definitions for organisations that use relational databases as their user stores. In addition to relational databases, IdentityMinder continues to support the administration of users in LDAP. This reinforces Netegrity's mission of providing a flexible solution that supports a broad range of IT infrastructures and enables organisations to better leverage their existing IT investments.
* Web Service Interface
IdentityMinder's new Web service interface and support of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) standard allows organisations to expose identity management tasks as Web services. This enables organisations to integrate user management tasks, such as create/modify/delete users, self-service, and forgotten password capabilities, into the organisation's portal or expose them externally to partners and customers, while still leveraging the automated user administration services of IdentityMinder. This reduces development costs for the organisation and provides a more consistent user experience.
* Enhanced User Management Flexibility
IdentityMinder automates the management of user identities, including group & organisation memberships, role assignments, and profile attributes. With IdentityMinder 6.0, Netegrity has further streamlined the management of users with:
- More flexible role model - Makes implementing roles easier by simplifying the creation, management, and delegation of roles.
- Support for dynamic groups - Enables access to applications to be dynamically determined based on group membership.
- Support for nested groups - Simplifies group management by capitalising on hierarchical relationships in order to minimise the number of groups of users an administrator must manage.
- More intuitive user interface - Provides a simplified experience for business users as the interface is based on the role of the user and the tasks they are allowed to perform.
Bill Bartow, vice president of engineering at Netegrity, commented: "As companies continue to expand their online initiatives, the number of external users, such as partners and customers, continues to grow exponentially, presenting significant user management challenges. With IdentityMinder 6.0, Netegrity is taking identity administration to the next level by providing a solution that is not only flexible and robust enough to accommodate varying organisation's needs but is also intuitive enough to make it easy for non-IT personnel to administer users."
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