Novell Delivers New Security and Identity Solutions to Streamline Compliance Management

Novell today announced a number of new, innovative solutions designed to secure access to business applications and address expanding compliance requirements. The latest releases of Designer for Novell® Identity Manager, Novell SecureLogin and Novell Storage Manager (formerly File System Factory) will help organizations more effectively automate user provisioning, simplify single sign-on and manage shared network resources to simplify and streamline their open enterprise. As a result, customers can dramatically improve security and better automate business processes to deliver bottom-line savings.

“For financial institutions, security and compliance are top priorities, and we rely on Novell to help us maintain our competitive edge,” said John Jahne, vice president of network services at Webster Bank. “With security and identity solutions from Novell, we’ve been able to build a secure enterprise and simplify access management. We also improved user productivity by reducing the number of passwords our employees need by nearly 75 percent.”

Simplifying Identity, Access and Storage Management
Based on the Eclipse open source framework, Designer for Novell Identity Manager lets customers visually configure, customize and test identity management implementations, as well as deploy and document the solution. Available for free download, Designer for Novell Identity Manager is routinely updated on an agile development cycle to ensure customers always have access to the latest capabilities. The April milestone is designed to make it easier to manage information in multiple formats, as well as simplify reconciliation, policy simulation and debugging. It will also include version control capabilities to help further streamline and improve the collaboration process.

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