Computer Associates International is to join six of its
eTrust products into a unified identity and access management
suite.
CA unveiled the first component of the eTrust Identity and
Access Management Suite, a new version of eTrust Admin, at the
Computer Security Institute (CSI) Conference and Exhibition in
Washington DC yesterday and plans updates for five other products
for the CA World 2004 show in May 2004, according to Bilhar Mann,
vice president of product management at CA.
The new version of eTrust Admin features an updated user
interface and more features to help customers tie user provisioning
features to other business processes, making it easier for
customers to integrate custom functions written in the Java or C
programming languages into the provisioning workflow.
Future releases of CA's eTrust Access Control, Audit, Directory,
Single Sign-On and Web Access Control products will bring the
various Suite components into line, implementing a common user
interface across the various products and standardising the product
version numbering.
CA's software will require less custom integration than IBM's
Tivoli product, said Mann. In some cases, the eTrust Identity and
Access Management Suite will even work "out of the box", he
claimed.
For customers who want to use part, but not all, of the Suite's
components, eTrust Identity and Access Management Suite will work
with third-party products and support XML (Extensible Markup
Language) standards such as SAML (Security Assertion Markup
Language), SPML (Service Provisioning Markup Language) and the
Liberty Alliance Project's Federated Network Identity
architecture.
CA's decision to integrate its identity and access management
products is an effort to tap into a rapidly growing market for
identity management products, said Dan Blum, senior vice president
and research director at The Burton Group.
CA will charge a per-server monthly fee of $2,800 to license
eTrust Admin, in addition to a monthly per-user fee of $1, Mann
said. Updated pricing information for the other Suite components
will be provided when those components are released in May.
Paul Roberts writes for IDG News Service