Compliance Management

Enter the Novell Compliance Management Platform. Built upon award-winning technology, this solution is the culmination of years of Novell experience in identity and access management.

With our fully integrated platform, you can:

• Automate manual processes and access controls, thus improving audit results and business insight
• Monitor and respond to threats proactively and in real time
• Simplify the process of proving compliance

Automation is the key to compliance management. Our solutions eliminate human error by automating all access requests and changes. Automating business processes closes security gaps and improves productivity, especially around compliance audits. Plus, you'll know your security and access policies are always being followed for every user, internal or external. Meanwhile, IT can spend less time dealing with access rights and more time on business-critical tasks.

What threats lurk among the millions of events flooding your network? With our solution's event monitoring features, you'll know. Better yet, you'll be able to respond proactively to defend your network. Only Novell solutions tightly integrate identity and access management capabilities with security information and event management (SIEM) data. They monitor all network activities in real time and flag any potential threats or compliance violations. Then, based on your policy, they can trigger actions ranging from basic notifications to account lockdown. No other vendor empowers you to correct problems so quickly.

Our solutions deliver standardized data and customizable, out-of-the-box reports that show you quickly who can access what. Enjoy enterprise-wide visibility into all user access privileges, even across disparate systems. Plus, manage and audit all entitlement changes through integration with enterprise-wide access enforcement and a user provisioning infrastructure.

Worse yet, the costs of complying with countless government and industry regulations are on the rise. So, too, are the costs of noncompliance in terms of brand damage and loss of customer and partner trust.

Do you want to reduce the risks and costs of access management and compliance? The access governance capabilities in Novell Compliance Management solutions can help by:

• Mapping business roles to IT roles
• Streamlining the collection of access and compliance data
• Creating customizable reports to prove compliance status, for smoother auditing processes

Bridging the gap between business mandates and IT practice is critical for a successful compliance implementation. Novell helps you do just that. By providing a common language for governance, our solutions let you map business roles to IT roles. As a result, you can remove the risk of incorrect access that comes from misunderstandings across departments. You can also ensure IT entitlements align with business roles.

When it comes to tracking and reporting access- and compliance-related activities, individual applications and systems just don't cut it. Why? Because they require manual data collection, which eats up valuable resources and is subject to human error. Our solution automatically inspects and enforces activities relative to business policies and processes, thereby reducing the risk of security vulnerabilities and improving response time to potential threats. With these solutions, you can certify that your identity access controls are in compliance with established internal policies and processes. The result: you can reduce compliance-related costs and free resources to drive top-line growth.

Our access governance capabilities also present compliance data in a customizable, user-friendly format. This out-of-the-box functionality makes it simple for business managers and security teams to monitor the effectiveness and usage of roles, applications and entitlements, and to prove compliance status. So now, IT can focus on value-added projects rather than just passing the next audit.

Our security and vulnerability management capabilities provide:

• Active monitoring for threats around the clock
• Instant enforcement of changing business policy
• Remediation of potential threats as they emerge
• Real-time reporting for better insight
• Control and auditing for superuser privileges

Counting on manual monitoring for network security? You're bound to be let down. Only Novell integrates identity and access management with security information and event management (SIEM) for real-time monitoring of all network events. Our solution continuously evaluates what's normal activity—and what looks risky. Should a security event occur, you'll know right away. What's more, you'll know which users and devices are involved.

Organizations often modify processes for tracking, escalating and responding to incidents and policy violations. Unlike other offerings, Novell solutions effect such changes as soon as they're handed down. This real-time approach offers the ultimate in threat preparedness. It also automates the process of remediating known threats and stopping policy violations before they happen.

Our solution also can collect, correlate and display data from thousands of events per second in real time. These up-to-the-minute reports give you the insight you need to improve security efforts and prove compliance. Your IT staff doesn't need to lift a finger.

You also face challenges from within. Many organizations needlessly expose their superuser or root account credentials to users who must run commands that need elevated privileges. Passwords often are not changed when people change jobs, leaving potential back doors into systems and increasing the risk of a security breach.

Novell Privileged User Manager limits corporate exposure to unauthorized transactions and information access. The result? You reduce the cost, complexity and risk associated with managing superusers.