Convergence of Physical and Logical Access
Identity and Security Management
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access. Today's security landscape is increasingly complex. Strong physical security is no longer sufficient, even when the policies designed to enforce it are followed consistently and completely. And electronic measures are not completely effective when they operate in isolation. Twenty-first century threats require twenty-first century responses.
Common challenges
With Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell, you can automatically assign and remove user access across all the systems that make up your enterprise. Not only does this slash administration time, but it also enables you to improve security. By instantly granting and revoking access to any system—all based on identity—you keep data, facilities and employees safe and productive.
Automated Provisioning and Deprovisioning
Reducing the amount of risk your company faces begins with your people. Our Convergence of Physical and Logical Access solution provisions and deprovisions users automatically. You give employees the access they need to be productive, but also remove unnecessary access immediately. For example, when a contractor is terminated or suspended, access rights are revoked instantaneously. The card management system (CMS) technology in Novell solutions disassociates the user from the card and revokes the digital certificate on the access card, rendering it invalid. With this system, the contractor can no longer enter the building or log on to any computer.
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell consistently enforces policies across the enterprise, reducing the threat from internal attacks.
Reduce Risk Through Automation
To effectively reduce risk in today's enterprise, you must simplify and automate—especially when it comes to the security of your facilities and IT assets. Delays in processing user access requests or workflows are not only time consuming, but they also leave your data, property and employees vulnerable.
By automating tedious manual tasks, you reduce the chance of human error and eliminate delays that cause risk. Our Convergence of Physical and Logical Access solution provisions and deprovisions users automatically based on their roles and identity. You can give employees the access they need to be productive immediately, and you can revoke or change that access immediately as needed. New employees have the access they need immediately, without having to wait days or weeks for other people to authorize them. When an employee is terminated or suspended, access rights are revoked instantaneously across all systems.
This automated control even extends to badges and cards your company uses for physical access to facilities. The card management system technology in Novell solutions disassociates the user from the card and revokes its digital certificate, rendering the card invalid. With this system, a terminated employee or contractor can no longer enter the building or log on to any computer.
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access automatically gives the right access to the right people at the right time, reducing your risk and management costs.
Security
Today's security landscape is increasingly complex. Businesses must ensure mobility, flexibility and access while confronting regulatory demands, rising costs and expanding risks. Strong physical security is no longer sufficient, even when the policies designed to enforce it are followed consistently and completely. At the same time, electronic measures are not completely effective when they operate in isolation. Technology delivers the resources and access people need to do their jobs, but it also complicates the security picture. But with Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell, you can ensure that your systems are secure in every way.
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell brings physical and logical access systems together. It gives you an integrated view of security systems all across your enterprise and enables complete control of who has access to what. This integrated view is much more complete, which means you can make security decisions and policies with the whole picture in front of you—not just part of it.
Integrated Security
Traditionally, security has been separated into two groups: physical, for access to buildings, rooms and equipment; and logical, for access to networks, computer systems and electronic files. This method worked in the past, but as technology advances, it's more likely that you'll find security gaps where the systems do not overlap effectively.
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell enables fine-grained control of your entire security picture—from building access to workstation login.
However, with Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell, you can see every aspect of your security systems and erase the boundary between them. You'll have a big-picture view and fine-grained control of how employees, customers and partners access your physical and IT systems. You'll also see at a glance the processes and policies you have in place, and how effectively they comply with regulations.
Unifying your physical and logical security not only increases your overall security, but it also delivers the most comprehensive picture you can get to show how IT and physical security are working together to protect valuable corporate assets.
Integration = Security
Our Convergence of Physical and Logical Access solution not only gives you a complete view of your security picture, but it also manages smart cards and access badges. With our solution in place, a single smart card or badge can be used for building access and for strong authentication to workstations or other equipment. You can take action immediately to inappropriate access attempts or to security-sensitive changes in employee roles. The solution also enforces your access and security policies—consistently and automatically. No more “lost memos;” no more waiting for human intervention; no more delays in access changes when time is critical.
All of this means lower management costs and reduced exposure to internal attack.
Combine Physical and User Access
The days when an IT manager could protect IT systems while a security manager controlled access to physical facilities are long gone. Businesses that still think of physical and IT security as separate departments are opening themselves to big risks because the physical and logical realms are increasingly overlapping in today's enterprise. You need an integrated view of all your systems, who accesses them and how.
Because our solution integrates physical and logical security systems, it's easy for you to demonstrate compliance with government and industry standards. Our detailed reports and incident tracking give you the overall view you need as well as correlate data from all across your enterprise.
Monitor and Analyze All Systemts
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access can monitor administrative, access and security events across your environment—no matter how many people are using your systems, and no matter what they're doing there. But our solution doesn't just collect information and run reports. It also intelligently analyzes every event for potential security risks. So if a user has not swiped into the building, but his workstation is being accessed, our solution will flag the incident so you can easily spot it and take appropriate action.
You can effectively ensure and demonstrate compliance with government and industry regulations. With Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell, preparing for compliance audits—which used to take days—now takes minutes.
In addition to keeping your organization secure, Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell makes sure that when you are audited, you have a verifiable record of every security policy, incident and procedure. And it provides visibility into your current and historic levels of policy compliance—delivering proof that your system is meeting standards.
Easy compliance is possible
Our Convergence of Physical and Logical Access solution brings together several systems that are vital to your compliance efforts:
- Security information and event management
- Card management
- Identity management
- Security monitoring
When these systems operate in isolation, it takes a lot of time and labor to collect and correlate data, to say nothing of making sense of information from many different sources. Our solution unites these systems and helps you organize and analyze all that data. Not only can you instantly see your compliance and security status, but you can easily prove you are in compliance using our out-of-the box reports.
Prove Compliance
Industry and government regulations are exerting ever-increasing pressure on businesses today, and you're finding it difficult to support enterprisewide compliance requirements. But with Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell, you can implement strong authentication for you information systems, cost effectively and throughout your organization.
Hackers and data thieves never sleep, so you need a sentry on guard 24x7. Our solution delivers detailed reports and around-the-clock monitoring. It responds instantly to security events according to policies you define, so you can act before any damage is done. Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell. It's the sentry that never sleeps.
Automated, Real-time Monitoring
Manually gathering your data isn't enough anymore. As your systems become more complex and the number of users grows, increased activity makes monitoring difficult. If you try to monitor systems and security events manually, it's only a matter of time until an oversight creates serious breaches. Our Convergence of Physical and Logical Access solution includes automated, real-time monitoring of all your company's important security events and information.
Yesterdays security measures can't protect you against today's threats. That's why you need the automated, always-on security monitoring provided by Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell.
With our out-of-the-box reports and user-friendly interface, you can close the gap between what should be happening in your enterprise and what is actually happening. If users aren't scanning their badges to get into the building, you'll know about it. If someone isn't following the proper channels to provision a user, you'll know about it. And when you have a complete view of your system's security status—the view that our solutions provide—you'll be able to demonstrate to auditors and regulators that your organization documents, monitors and reports on security controls.
Generate Reports to Prove Compliance
Gathering data about your security and compliance status isn't enough if you can't make sense of it. Security and access data is not standardized and it can come from all over the enterprise in a variety of formats. If humans can't read it and analyze what it's saying, it's the same as having no data at all.
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell not only generates the reports you need to prove compliance, but its reports also make sense. Our solution will document policy violations as well as your response to them. Simply put, you'll have what you need to show auditors that both the physical and logical systems in your business are secure.
Avoid Manual Monitoring
With so many people coming in and out of your business's systems, manual monitoring increases the chances of creating security gaps. Our Convergence of Physical and Logical Access solution includes real-time monitoring of all your company's important events—so you can have peace of mind 24x7x365, instead of just when someone's on the clock.
A solution that is difficult to manage is not a solution at all—it's just more work. Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell enables you to automate manual tasks and simplify management—even of complex security systems. Let Novell show you how to get off the hamster wheel.
Create a Simplified Management Infrastructure
With Convergence of Physical and Logical Access, you can combine the best of both security systems to create a simpler management infrastructure. With identities, badges, computers and buildings all linked together in a single identity vault, you won't have to worry about chasing down information or attempting to ensure the information you have is current. And since a good portion of the solution is automated, you can reduce the number of manual tasks IT and physical security managers must perform. There will be less paperwork, which means there are fewer chances of a human error occurring that will endanger your entire business. All these improvements add up to less management and better productivity. And when your employees are more productive, it means better return on investment, more revenue and, ultimately, lower costs.
You don't have to increase management costs when you implement a comprehensive security solution. Our solution features simple management that helps to ensure rapid ROI.
Simple Management
Don't let the complexity of your security systems stop you from managing them effectively. When physical and logical security systems operate in isolation, you're getting half the benefit for twice the work. Each change requires separate workflow and authorization. IT administrators and people responsible for security stay busy juggling permissions and data, but cannot focus on the projects that bring value to the business. Decisions and information move slowly because of management complexity, which drains resources and leaves your valuable property vulnerable.
Cut Costs
Having a completely secure business doesn't help you if it breaks your entire budget. Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell will help you simplify management so you can cut down on helpdesk, downtime and manual labor costs.
The loss or theft of laptops and other devices that contain sensitive data is common today. But data theft also happens inside the walls of your business where data is supposed to be secure. Our comprehensive access control solution helps you ensure that only the right people have access to data and physical facilities. It's a simple way to keep your corporate information where it belongs.
Prevent Data Theft
54,000 attacks and six identity thefts occur every minute. These attacks come in many forms—from both within and outside of your organization. Dishonest or disgruntled employees can steal, damage and destroy important files, paperwork and equipment. Hackers gaining unauthorized access to your IT systems can infect or corrupt irreplaceable information. And all this happens because your enterprise is not as secure as it could be. Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell can give the right people access to the right information and keep the wrong people from entering your business at all.
Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell delivers secure, identity-based access control. No matter where your sensitive data is located—behind locked doors or in password-protected systems—we can help you keep it safe 24x7.
Data theft costs businesses worldwide US$1.5 trillion annually. You don't want to be a part of that statistic. Our solution combines your IT systems and your physical systems to provide an enterprisewide security umbrella. It manages additional data, events and resources that have not been available to either access control or information technology systems in the past. And by creating the most secure organization possible, you are lowering the costs associated with equipment and data theft.
Secure Data
he biggest threat to business networks today is not viruses and other malware. It's data loss and theft. Our identity-based solution manages access all across the enterprise—to both physical facilities and logical systems. People have only the data they need to do their jobs, and only the necessary access. You can revoke access instantly, disable smart cards or take other security measures when necessary to ensure data is always protected.
Ensure Data Security
Both your physical and your logical security resources are invaluable. They ensure that your important information, property and people are safe at all times. But with so many challenges to face—especially data theft—it may seem impossible to keep your information safe. With Convergence of Physical and Logical Access from Novell, you'll know that your entire organization, from the front doors of your building to the most remote laptop, is safe.
