Novell Access Governance Suite

Govern enterprise policies across IT policy domains.

Automate processes and reduce risk. The Access Governance Suite allows you to automate processes that will simplify the governance of user access. It bridges visibility, data, policy and enforcement management gaps, ensuring that your organization can understand the state of user access and enforce policies consistently across all information resources.

The Problem

Today, the management of user access is fragmented, error prone, and complex. Entitlements can spread across tens of thousands of users and thousands of applications, which means you're dealing with millions to billions of access rights entitlements overall. With those numbers it's next to impossible to consistently govern user access to information resources across your entire enterprise, exposing your organization to the unnecessary risk of:

• Operational mistakes resulting from inappropriate or misused access
• Accidental data loss, system outages, and other serious problems
• Security breaches
• Audit and regulatory compliance failures

The Novell Solution

With Novell Access Governance Suite, you can build business and compliance access policies into your underlying infrastructure. Your organization can deploy a centralized approach to consistently enforce your access policies across the entire enterprise—from applications and data to hosts and systems. This approach leverages your existing identity and security infrastructure such as directories, user provisioning software and security information event management tools, so you can get new returns on existing investments.

Our solution makes it easy to define business rules that automate the monitoring of user entitlements and roles. This gives you extra insight and control for early identification, notification and remediation of inappropriate entitlements such as segregation of duties (SOD) violations. With easy-to-use business rules, you can test and automatically enforce security and compliance policies associated with identities, entitlements, roles and certifications. And automated workflows ensure that potential violations are immediately made known to appropriate parties so they can take appropriate action.

Key Capabilities

Novell Access Governance Suite delivers these benefits with capabilities that are unique in the industry.

• Reporting and analytics to monitor the usage and effectiveness of roles, and to identify and manage out-of-role entitlements
• Automated role certifications to make role owners or designated business managers accountable for the review of role contents and membership

Novell Access Governance Suite delivers an intelligent, metrics-driven approach that lets you govern access-related policies consistentlyno matter the mix of your heterogeneous enterprise. Click here to learn more, or contact your Novell solutions provider today.