Identity Assurance Solution

Identity Management for Regulated Industries

If you have to comply with regulations such as HSPD-12, this one's for you. Manually gathering data and attesting that your organization follows established policies is time consuming and labor-intensive, and often reveals a gap between what security policies dictate should occur and what actually does occur. These manual efforts can also create real-time security gaps, inaccurate reporting and inability to prove compliance—which can result in lost business, fines and penalties, brand damage and lost shareholder value.

The Identity Assurance Solution from Novell enables you to comply with the growing number of regulations governing identity assurance in government, education, financial, health care, utilities, and other sectors. This is a tightly integrated set of core identity assurance services, specifically designed to meet stringent regulations. The services of:

• Novell eDirectory™
• Novell Identity Manager
• Sentinel™
• SmartPlus integration with physical access from Honeywell Pro-Watch and Enrollment and Badging station
• Card Management System from ActivIdentity

The Identity Assurance Solution from Novell ensures convenient yet controlled access to disparate logical IT systems and physical facilities using combinations of biometrics, passwords, personal identification numbers, smart cards, X.509 digital certificates and other advanced forms of authentication. With the Identity Assurance Solution, organizations can increase efficiency, reduce security vulnerabilities and simplify the end-user access and authentication experience.

Identity Assurance addresses the highest priorities of HSPD-12. With the Novell solution, federal employees and contractors can authenticate to multiple logical IT systems using their standard-issue Personal Identity Verification card along with a combination of identification technologies (passwords, personal identification number, biometric, digital certificates and other forms of advanced authentication.) This integrated approach eliminates the inherent vulnerabilities and administrative overhead of password authentication, while creating an authentication process that is easy to use and administer.

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For more information see: Identity Assurance for HSPD-12