CA, Eurekify team to provide faster time-to-value identity management deployments
ConvergenceAsia staff
16/05/2008

Independent software company CA has announced a deal with Eurekify that will give customers a more efficient approach for implementing an identity management solution to cost-effectively manage and control the identity lifecycle and demonstrate compliance.

The combination of CA Identity Manager with Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager provides customers with a system for “smart provisioning”, which means customers have the ability to clean up the identity data first and then model the roles with the best available information. This facilitates effective automation of the provisioning process and enhances identity lifecycle management.

Under the agreement, CA will resell Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager, helping customers quickly discover, model, and manage corporate roles using Eurekify’s advanced pattern recognition technology.

Eurekify role data will be fed into CA Identity Manager, which customers use to easily manage identity lifecycles from creation to modification to removal. Eurekify analytical capabilities will also weave easily into CA Identity Manager processes to recommend roles and check their consistency in real time.

The agreement also simplifies the buying experience for customers who want to deal with a single vendor for procurement, deployment, service and support of their identity management needs.

“As the clock ticks for organisations to address compliance issues, time to value for identity management solutions become even more important,” said Bilhar Mann, CA senior vice president, Security Management.

“Eurekify’s leadership in role modelling, mining and management processes is an ideal coupling with the strengths of CA Identity Manager. The complete solution allows organisations to streamline the management of identities and their subsequent access and strive for faster adherence to compliance mandates,” he said.

Eurekify, a pioneer in role modelling and role management, has leveraged advanced pattern recognition analysis in Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager to manage roles from role-and-rule mining to privileges clean up.

“With Eurekify's solution customers can quickly build and maintain role and compliance models that cover 80 per cent of their entire set of access rights with business roles,” said Dr. Ron Rymon, Eurekify founder.

“Through this agreement, Eurekify and CA offer the next generation of role-based identity management systems. Combined, we deliver a system that is comprehensive, cohesive, and very effective from both managerial and administrative viewpoints,” Dr. Rymon added.

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