About Novell Compliance Management Platform

Always On, Always Visible, Always Secure — Security you can Prove

For many businesses, compliance means dedicating lots of people and spending large sums of money, only to end up with a piecemeal solution that barely gets you through this year's audit. What's worse, you've only protected the business against yesterday's threats.

If you are faced with the complexity of meeting stringent privacy policies and continually changing government requirements, the new Novell® Compliance Management Platform will provide welcome relief. Only the Novell Compliance Management Platform integrates identity, access, and security information and event management technology to provide a real-time, holistic view of all network events across an enterprise. This tight integration eases implementation while creating the ultimate governance solution; ensuring business policy becomes automated IT practice. The Platform is:

• Faster to implement, less costly to run - Based on 6000+ deployments, Novell expects the tool enhancements and tight integration to reduce implementation time and costs by 50 percent or more. Once it is up and running, an intuitive policy management interface and automated enforcement decreases administrative costs and improves productivity, especially around compliance audits.
• Always on, always visible, always secure - By cross-validating identity, access and policy information through real-time monitoring, the business always knows who is accessing what, when they are doing it and if they are authorized. If unauthorized access is attempted, the Platform will automatically remedy any violations based on business policy.
• Flexible and adaptable - The Platform does not lock in either customers or partners. It's a straightforward task to adapt business policies and/or information systems to changing regulations or market opportunities. The Platform's comprehensive governance and security perspective not only protects a business, it advances it.

The Novell Compliance Management Platform was uniquely engineered to reduce the time and cost spent meeting existing mandates and complying with previously unmeetable compliance requirements. When compared to similar solutions, it not only requires significantly less customization and services, it provides "out of the box" compliance assurance through real-time automation and validation. Additionally, it is unique in that it enforces business policies and offers wizards to simplify deployment and configuration.

What's Inside

Business Function	Technical Description	Component Name
Simplifies the process of managing identity information across the enterprise	Automates user provisioning, roles based access control and password management	Identity Manager
Provides a centralized way of accessing enterprise assets	Protects web and non-web based resources, provides single sign-on, standards-based identity federation, multi-factor authentication, data encryption, an SSL VPN for local and remote users, as well as native support for a broad range of platforms and directory services with no changes to applications.	Access Manager
Detects and resolves threats in real-time through an enterprise-wide view of critical network applications and user events	Identity visibility integrated with security event monitoring	Sentinel
Helps maintain the security and integrity of enterprise data according to business policies	Tools for data analysis, data cleansing, data reconciliation and data monitoring/reporting.	Analyzer
Accelerates the deployment of business solutions	Success practices and pre-configured provisioning policy all from a culmination of years of deployment experiences based on the Novell Identity and Security Management software stack	Identity Manager Resource Kit
Generates simple, clear, high-level dashboard and detailed reports of user activity	Automatically ties all events associated with a user (even across multiple user IDs) to that user's full identity	Identity Tracking Solution Pack