CA to Support Maturing Federation Market Needs and Enhance
Relationships with Customers, Partners, Employees
New CA Federation Manager, Enhanced CA SOA Security Manager to Join
Other CA Identity and Access Management Products for Integrated Solution
to Help Secure Web Business
Comprehensive Web Security Solution to Provide Essential Tools to
Confidently Capitalize on Emerging Business Opportunities
LAS VEGAS (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 17, 2008 --
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the planned release of additions
and advancements in its Identity
and Access Management (IAM) product portfolio, including CA
Federation Manager, a new product designed to ease the deployment
and management of federated partnerships; an enhanced CA
SOA Security Manager; and an integrated solution for Secure Web
Business Enablement (SWBE) that will feature multiple CA Identity and
Access Management products including CA Federation Manager and the
enhanced CA SOA Security Manager.
“As organizations’ IT operations have grown to be more Web-based, CA has
been there to help secure and manage that part of their operation, which
has become critical to their business success,” said Dave Hansen,
corporate senior vice president and general manager, CA Security
Management. “CA is a leader in identity and access management and we are
proud that our global customers ranging from government organizations to
Fortune 500 companies trust us to help secure, manage and grow their
Web-based businesses. Today’s announcements strengthen our IAM portfolio
to provide our customers with tools they need to confidently grow that
business even more.”
CA Federation Manager
Developed as the successor to CA SiteMinder Federation Security Services
(CA FSS) and as part of the SWBE solution, CA Federation Manager is
being designed to deliver all the capabilities of CA FSS, while
addressing the market evolution for more rapid and simpler federation
deployments as the number of federated partnerships for a typical
organization moves from dozens of partners to hundreds.
“The federation market continues to grow consistently as more
organizations are integrating their IT systems with their partners and
customers and need to provide seamless, but secure access to their Web
applications and portals,” said Gerry Gebel, vice president and service
director, The Burton Group. “The number and complexity of usage
scenarios also continues to expand, requiring that vendors provide
flexible yet complete product configurations.”
CA Federation Manager is being designed to deliver greater deployment
flexibility and ease of use for customers who want to establish
federated partnerships quickly in conjunction with or separate from
their Web access management system. CA plans to make that possible by
providing to customers a CA Federation Manager endpoint that they in
turn can provide to their partners at no additional cost. This will help
overcome any technological hurdles so that CA customers and their
partners can federate more quickly for business success.
CA Federation Manager was successfully beta tested at multiple
organizations this year, and current plans are for the product to offer
the following features: The ability to act as the identity provider
(home site of the user) or the service provider (owner of the target
application), or both; a rapid deployment model as a proxy server; a new
user interface and management model to simplify the deployment and
management of federation partnerships; and granular control over which
users in the Identity Provider user store can federate.
“CA approved Rolta for use of the beta product of CA Federation Manager
in a proof-of-concept deployment with a leading biotechnology company.
The goal was to federate and deliver single sign-on with the company’s
project and portfolio management solution, CA
Clarity PPM on Demand, which is delivered as software-as-a-service,”
said Nitin Khadse, director, eServices Practice, Rolta International.
“We have successfully completed the federation and found that CA
Federation Manager performed as advertised. The customer continues to
put the deployment through its paces, and we are pleased with the
outcome.”
CA SOA Security Manager
Service Oriented Architectures and Web services are emerging as the next
major wave of application architectures as organizations strive to
improve the speed, flexibility, and cost of building and deploying
applications for both internal and external uses. However, according
to an independent global survey sponsored by CA, 43 percent of
senior IT executives perceive security threats as the most critical
issue in the implementation of SOA and Web services-based applications.
The survey also showed that this concern about security is justified as
the executives surveyed reported experiencing an average of seven XML
targeted attacks against externally facing SOA or Web services
applications in the past year.
CA SOA Security Manager provides a comprehensive SOA and Web services
security platform which abstracts security from the underlying services
and provides both content based Web services security—authentication,
authorization, federation, and audit—as well as defense against
XML-centric threats in a single integrated solution. The abstraction of
security policies from the application services avoids the cost,
inflexibility and risk of security silos.
The latest planned release of CA SOA Security Manager, also part of the
planned SWBE solution, is being designed to enhance and improve security
policy management and support additional platforms and standards. In
addition, CA SOA Security Manager currently can be used in conjunction
with CA
SiteMinder Web Access Manager to provide a comprehensive Web
security system, protecting both Web sites as well as Web services, or
it can be deployed in standalone mode securing only Web services.
“At Bristol-Myers Squibb, we are heavy users of Web technology and the
Internet to support the company’s primary mission of discovering,
developing, and providing innovative medicines globally,” said Shailesh
Patel, senior advisor, Identity and Access Engineering at Bristol-Myers
Squibb. “For both governance and efficiency reasons, the centralized
identity and access management organization at Bristol-Myers Squibb is
responsible for providing Web security as a shared enterprise service.
We continue to expand this service with products from CA’s Secure Web
Business Enablement solution, including CA SiteMinder WAM, CA Federation
Manager, and CA SOA Security Manager. We’ve most recently expanded this
service with federation with multiple business partners and by providing
a SOA-focused security service in support of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s
corporate SOA IT transformation initiative.”
The upcoming release of SOA Security Manager will add support for BEA
WebLogic Server®, Web services over JMS, IPv6 and 64-bit platforms. It
also will feature an expanded SOA Security Gateway and new Web services
focused user interface for simplified policy management.
CA Secure Web Business Enablement
As a planned part of CA’s Identity and Access Management portfolio, CA’s
SWBE solution will be anchored by CA SiteMinder WAM and will combine it
with CA Federation Manager, CA SOA Security Manager and CA Identity
Manager to administer Web users.
The CA SWBE solution is currently planned to provide customers with
essential capabilities to expand and improve an organization’s Web
business operations by enhancing the reach, quality, and security of its
online relationships. It is being designed to help organizations
confidently broaden their use of the Web to efficiently transact
business, either internally or with business partners and customers, by
delivering proven, auditable, and scalable security capabilities that
control access to Web applications, SOA and Web services, enable
identity federation, and automate user administration.
CA SWBE will be offered as a single licensed offering or customers can
continue to purchase and deploy the component products separately.
“At MedicAlert a key part of our value is driven by the delivery and
mobility of personal health information,” said Jorge Mercado, principal
architect, MedicAlert IT Department. “We realized we needed to implement
a flexible Web security system that would simplify and unify our data
safeguarding operations, while enabling us to grow our Web delivery of
applications. CA’s Secure Web Business Enablement solutions provide key
security infrastructure for MedicAlert enabling us to more efficiently
manage Web access and federation with partners.”
The planned CA SWBE solution and its related products are CA Enterprise
IT Management solutions that are being designed to help customers
respond more quickly and efficiently to changing conditions and
capitalize on emerging business opportunities.
For more information about CA’s Identity and Access Management
solutions, please visit http://www.ca.com/us/access-management.aspx
About CA
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software company. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and
expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure
IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage.
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