Identity and Access Management

With over 25 years of history and more than 6,000 customer deployments, Novell solutions successfully automate the management of user identities. Automation gives workers instant, up-to-date, role-based access to vital network resources. It also frees your IT staff from the drudgery of account management.

Novell has a solution for all your identity and access management needs, including:

• User provisioning and deprovisioning
• Role management
• Storage management

Hiring and training new employees is expensive. You can get the most from your investment by immediately and accurately provisioning new hires. Our identity and access management technology leverages your business rules to automate resource assignment. As a result, new users can access just what they need as soon as they need it.

Instant deprovisioning means instant security for your corporate resources. Our automated process immediately rescinds or modifies resource access the moment an individual's role changes in the system. This includes every enterprise system and connected partner system which ensures rock-solid network-wide security.

Like our provisioning and deprovisioning solutions, automated roles management boosts productivity and security. Users receive anytime, anywhere access to resources based on specific roles and responsibilities. Plus, role-based automation helps keep you compliant with internal and external regulations, including hot-button separation of duties (SoD) policies.

Close the loop on lifecycle management by leveraging automated storage management from Novell. User identity, events in the directory and corporate policy dictate storage actions. New users get the right amount of storage and the necessary access rights to shared storage areas. When a user is deprovisioned, department policy determines whether the files are deleted, archived or reassigned. That means that valuable storage resources are never wasted or improperly allocated.

Novell Identity and Access Management solutions offer:

• A consistent user experience for mobile workers
• Seamless, barrier-free access for contractors, partners and customers
• A secure network that everyone can trust

Mobile workers want the freedom to access necessary resources as if they were sitting at their own desks. Enable anytime, anywhere productivity for your employees with Novell Identity and Access Management solutions. Advanced capabilities like a client-less VPN and single sign-on give users the same access whether they're at home, in a hotel room or in the office.

Your employees aren't the only ones who depend on 24x7 access to your network. Contractors, partners and even customers may use your portals, Web-based content and enterprise applications on a regular basis. Novell Identity and Access Management technologies allow you to share identity information across business and technical boundaries with maximum interoperability. And that lets you create a seamless experience for all external parties.

Of course, access is only part of the challenge. Contractors, partners, customers and your own IT staff need to feel confident that the network is always secure. Our Identity and Access Management solutions grant all users appropriate access while safeguarding resources. Centralized, policy-based management of authentication and access privileges guarantee information flows as it should—securely and barrier-free.

With Novell Enterprise Single Sign-on capabilities, users can access a range of network resources through one easy sign-on process. As a result, you can:

• Improve end-user satisfaction
• Strengthen security
• Reduce password-related helpdesk calls

Single sign-on capabilities mean users no longer spend frustrating downtime trying to remember passwords or waiting for the helpdesk to issue new ones. As they work, their access to critical resources is seamless. They simply sign in once for everything they need to stay productive all day long.

Are you experiencing the password paradox? Tightened password security policies demand more frequent changes, fewer reused passwords and more complexity. To stay efficient and prevent yet another call to the helpdesk, users often violate policy and write down their passwords. This leaves your organization highly vulnerable to security violations. Novell Enterprise Single Sign-on capabilities eliminate the need for easily stolen password lists. Keeping it simple keeps your network safe.

Best of all, as end-user satisfaction and security increase, your help desk costs decrease. With Enterprise Single Sign-on, you can reduce the number of password-reset requests. So IT stops wasting valuable time managing accounts and devotes more resources to initiatives aimed at business growth.

Identity and Access Management solutions from Novell automate password management throughout the user lifecycle. Now, it's easy to provide first-day access to new users, modify or rescind access quickly, and synchronize multiple passwords into a single user log-in.

Let Novell help you:

• Enhance the end-user experience
• Significantly reduce password-related help desk calls
• Improve network security and compliance

Novell Identity and Access Management solutions empower your users through self-service. We simplify password management by enabling business managers and departments to handle their own users' access needs. Users manage their credentials through delegated administration, approval workflows and role-based provisioning. No more wasted time while managers contact a network administrator for simple password resets or changes in personal data.

And with end-users managing their own password requirements, IT support professionals can redirect their attention to their core duties. helpdesk costs decline, and IT becomes a more productive part of your organization.

Optimized password management is an important factor in network security and compliance. With automated identity and access management, you can reduce the security risks caused by human error. Not only that, but you can also ensure consistent enforcement of corporate policy.

Our technology is based on roles and identities, which means you can process access change requests automatically, and always according to policy. And with Novell, you can trust that access is being granted in compliance with internal and external regulations. Why? Because our solutions tightly integrate identity and access data with security information and event management (SIEM). You'll know your access control policies are in compliance not because we say it—but because you see it.