RSA Security has integrated its ClearTrust product with
PeopleSoft's 8 Web-based enterprise application suite. The
collaboration is intended to provide improved security and identity
management capabilities to the PeopleSoft 8 product line, while
also tying the suite closer to other third-party Web
applications.
RSA's ClearTrust Web access management technology will still sell
separately but ClearTrust customers who wish to use the product to
manage PeopleSoft 8 applications on their network can now do so
using the product out of the box according to RSA director of
partner development Stewart Cohen.
"We have tooled ClearTrust to work with PeopleSoft 8. No software
change is necessary," said Cohen.
Before, customers wishing to use ClearTrust to manage PeopleSoft
installations needed an RSA systems integrator to link the two
products. Now customers will only need to consult RSA documentation
on how to integrate the two products using existing features. That
documentation is provided for free on the RSA Web site.
While PeopleSoft 8 already supports a single logon capability
through its PeopleTools application, ClearTrust allows that single
logon to be extended to other applications outside of the
PeopleSoft suite of products.
ClearTrust also adds more sophisticated authentication methods than
are possible using just the PeopleTools product.
"PeopleSoft customers get a variety of authentication methods. In
addition to user name and password authentication, they get secure
ID token authentication, digital certificates and so on," Cohen
said.
Security roles and certificates are managed through the ClearTrust
product, Cohen said.
As part of the collaboration, RSA has certified PeopleSoft as a
Secured ClearTrust Ready Partner, joining a long list of other
partners - including a number of PeopleSoft's competitors in the
enterprise application market.
PeopleSoft, in turn, has certified RSA's ClearTrust Web access
management technology for its AppConnect - a partnership that uses
standardised data models and interfaces to connect PeopleSoft and
non-PeopleSoft applications.