Compliance Management Platform
FAQ
1. What is Novell announcing today?
Novell is announcing the availability of the industry's most advanced solution to address compliance management and security challenges.
2. Why is Novell introducing this Platform?
Internal and external regulatory compliance mandates are posing considerable challenges to companies around the world and creating huge costs. At the same time, both internal and external security threats have multiplied—even as security spending has increased—and have evolved at a rapid rate. Today's technology solves only half the problem. Businesses need to know, now that they have spent this much money, how can they prove to auditors they are compliant and assure customers their personal information is being protected.
3. What are some of the business compliance and security challenges this Platform can help to address?
- Security breaches and identity theft
- Mandatory corporate governance and protection of individual privacy, brought to the fore by regulations such as Sarbanes/Oxley and Basel II, HSPD-12 (government), FFIEC (banking), HIPAA (healthcare), FERPA (education).
- Security management, which tops the list of CIO priorities. Compliance pressures are driving improved identity assurance and stronger authentication. Companies are paying more attention to the question of "Who has access to what?"
- Cost and labor demands of meeting compliance.
- Inefficient identity and security management processes.
4. How does this Platform help businesses address their compliance and security challenges?
The Novell Compliance Management Platform tracks and monitors all events across a business' network in real-time. This is the only solution to integrate identity management and security monitoring to help organizations:
- Reduce costs and implementation time
- Monitor network events and detect and remedy violations as they occur
- Flexibility to adapt to evolving government regulations and changes in business situations
5. What is included in the Platform?
The Compliance Management Platform consists of a prepackaged set of products and integration resources. It contains all the necessary technology to accurately monitor and demonstrate compliance levels. Each product and module is integrated into a single platform to offer a seamless solution, but also work well as individual products in a mixed-vendor IT environment. The Compliance Management Platform, includes Novell Identity Manager, Novell Sentinel, Novell Access Manager, Novell Sentinel Identity Tracking Solution Pack, Analyzer for Novell and an Identity Manager Resource Kit.
6. How does this differ from competitive offerings?
Reduction of cost and implementation time. Most organizations have technology for provisioning, access, policy controls and access control. However, most competitors offer incomplete solutions that don't bring these silos together. Novell is the only company to bring all these solutions together in an integrated approach to help reduce the costs of implementation and deployment time.
Monitor network events and detect and remedy violations as they occur. It is the only solution to monitor applications and events on a network and provide a view of what is happening in real-time so businesses can see if they are on target with their company guidelines compliance goals.
Partners and customer have the the flexibility to adapt to evolving government regulations and changes in business situations. Today businesses are solving compliance based on regulatory drivers and addressing security based on threats they are aware of. By implementing the technology and tools of the Novell Compliance Management Platform, partners and customers can address their current compliance and security initiatives, while still having the flexibility to adapt to future compliance requirement or changes to their businesses, eg, acquire a company.
7. When is the Platform available?
The Novell Compliance Management Platform is available now.
8. What is the cost of the Novell Compliance Management Platform.
List price is $99 per user.