CA acquires IDFocus and its identity management technology
ConvergenceAsia staff
09/10/2008

IT management software company CA has announced it has acquired IDFocus and its identity management technology, ACE. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Identity management is essential to comprehensive IT security, and the integration of CA Identity Manager and ACE technology enables CA to deliver a robust and powerful identity management solution, said Dave Hansen, corporate senior vice president and general manager, CA Security Management.

"This acquisition strengthens CA's ability to continually enhance critical elements of CA's Identity and Access Management suite, which helps our customers effectively manage employees' and partners' identity lifecycles and meet new compliance demands," he said.

IDFocus provides several key identity management capabilities with its technology. IDFocus software includes an improved ability to help customers meet compliance demands by proactively preventing segregation of duties (SoD) violations.

CA Identity Manager helps improve security and business efficiency by automating identity management processes, such as user provisioning.

The integration of IDFocus software helps increase efficiencies by taking provisioning to a more specific, finer-grained entitlements level. By tightly integrating IDFocus software with CA Identity Manager, customers can link workflows and approvers to very specific user attributes.

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