CA Announced Enhances SOA Security Manager, Identity and Federation Offerings

11/17/2008

CA, Inc. 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.

ebizQ received the following:

SOA 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.

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.

"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.”

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.

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.

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.

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