Centralized Approach to Identity, Access, Threat Management Mitigates Risk, Streamlines Administration, Reduces Costs
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Computer Associates Middle East (CA-ME) will unveil at GITEX 2002 the industry’s first security solution to effectively integrate identity, access and threat management disciplines – enabling organizations to minimize their exposure to diverse risks while reducing the ongoing cost of security operations.
This uniquely holistic approach to security management is built on the integration of CA’s award-winning eTrust solutions and partner technologies, along with the newly announced eTrust Security Command Center, which provides a single console/portal for administering virtually all security operations across the enterprise.
“With attacks coming from various sources threatening today’s businesses, integrated, end-to-end security solutions are key to protecting the entire enterprise rather than just protecting each of the single pieces. CA is the only company that has successfully integrated diverse security technologies and practices to ensure real end-to-end protection. We plan to demonstrate at GITEX 2002 how CA’s innovative technology and best-practices methodology, built on eTrust solutions, can offer the ultimate protection for our valued customers,” said Abdul Karim Riyaz, CA-ME’s Director of eBusiness Security Solutions Unit.
Industry experts agree that holistic, end-to-end security is essential for today’s highly complex enterprise environments, since conventional fragmented security toolkits typically:
§ Leave companies vulnerable to gaps in technology and/or processes;
§ Require significant manual/redundant administration;
§ Make it difficult to implement policy-driven automation.
By integrating the multiple security functions required to protect the enterprise using solutions from CA and its partners, security managers can eliminate vulnerabilities, streamline cumbersome administrative processes, and more effectively implement best security practices.
CA’s eTrust solutions provide comprehensive, highly scalable functionality across all three core security disciplines:
§ eTrust Identity Management provides complete user provisioning over the life cycle of users and user accounts, including secure and simplified user sign-on to business applications, in accordance with the user’s role in the company;
§ eTrust Access Management delivers proactive policy-based protection of enterprise resources, delivering higher availability for business critical systems;
§ eTrust Threat Management defends against internal and external threats such as malicious code and denial of service attacks.
Information security teams can bring these three security disciplines under a single point-of-control with CA’s new eTrust Security Command Center, which delivers integrated, portal-style management and visualization of all enterprise security functions.
In addition to supporting CA’s eTrust solution family, eTrust Security Command Center provides open interfaces through an extensive Software Development Kit that helps enable seamless integration of third-party security products such as intrusion detection systems, firewalls and network appliances.
eTrust solutions can also be integrated with CA’s Unicenter, BrightStor, and CleverPath technologies to further extend best security practices into infrastructure management, storage management and information management processes.
Computer Associates Middle East can be found at GITEX 2002 exhibition stand L63 located in Hall 6.
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About Computer Associates Middle East
Computer Associates Middle East (CA-ME) manages the Middle East operations of Computer Associates International (NYSE: CA). With headquarters in Riyadh, CA-ME employs over 80 professionals and maintains other offices in Al-Khobar and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, as well as in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Our world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure
management; eTrust for security management; BrightStor for storage management; CleverPath for portal and business intelligence; AllFusion for application life cycle management; Advantage for data management and application development; and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology. Offering CA solutions that are used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies in over 100 countries as well as many of the largest organisations in government, banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas sectors in the Middle East, CA-ME is the leading provider of eBusiness management solutions in the region. For more information please visit us at: http://www.ca-me.com.
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