New Releases of Sentinel and Identity Manager Underscore Novell's Ongoing
Innovation and Leadership
RSA CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO (Booth # 1937), Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ --
Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) today announced that it is previewing enhancements to
its flagship security and identity management solutions, Sentinel(TM) 6 and
Identity Manager 3.5, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Demonstrating
Novell's innovation and market leadership, these product releases will
showcase new features and enhanced capabilities to help customers ensure
security and compliance. When deployed together, both products deliver the
industry's most complete identity and security management solution for
supporting compliance and IT governance initiatives.
"Today's dynamic IT environments require advanced security and
real-time monitoring features," said Kent Erickson, VP and GM for Identity
and Security Management at Novell. "With these significant new releases,
Novell continues to lead the market, delivering state-of-the-art solutions
to help customers secure and manage their IT infrastructure and support
regulatory compliance."
Sentinel 6, Novell's award-winning security information and event
management solution, focuses on new capabilities in correlation, incident
management workflow and its data connectivity framework. With Sentinel 6,
Novell is extending its localized language support to nine with the
addition of Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified and Japanese, and
adding platform support for SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server 10, Solaris* 10
and Oracle* 10. For customers of Novell(R) Audit, Novell's audit and
logging facility, this release of Sentinel delivers a clear upgrade
opportunity for customers that require an enterprise-wide security and
compliance solution.
Novell Identity Manager 3.5 is a significant update to Novell's
award-winning flagship user provisioning and metadirectory solution. To
facilitate regulatory compliance, Novell Identity Manager 3.5 features
additional support for role management to ensure separation of duties and
simplify attestation. In addition, Novell continues to focus on innovations
designed to make the deployment process faster, more repeatable and more
predictable. Novell Identity Manager 3.5 also features advanced integration
with Novell's access management solutions, Novell Access Manager and
SecureLogin, so that users are simultaneously provisioned a user account
and single sign-on to target systems.
Together, Sentinel 6 and Identity Manager 3.5 deliver enhanced
operational efficiencies and help ease the burden of proving compliance to
regulations, by automating the provisioning, collection, monitoring,
analysis, response and reporting activities. Convergence of these
functionalities is a valuable addition to an IT security program with a
broad spectrum of systems and people to monitor and critical assets to
protect.
Availability
Sentinel 6 and Novell Identity Manager 3.5 will be generally available
in the first half of this year and are being previewed at the RSA Security
Conference in Novell's booth #1937. Attendees at Novell's BrainShare(R)
conference in March will have the opportunity to participate in detailed
technical sessions and receive hands-on training related to these new
releases. For more information, please contact your Novell account
representative or authorized partner.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. delivers Software for the Open Enterprise(TM). With more
than 50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage,
simplify, secure and integrate their technology environments by leveraging
best-of-breed, open standards-based software. With more than 20 years of
experience, 4,700 employees, 5,000 partners and support centers around the
world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating
environments while reducing costs. More information about Novell can be
found at http://www.novell.com .
NOTE: Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks, BrainShare is a
registered service mark and Sentinel and Software for the Open Enterprise
are trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
*All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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CONTACT:
Charlotte Betterley of Novell, Inc.,
+1-781-464-8253, or CBetterley@novell.com; or Amanda Munroe of
SHIFT Communications, +1-617-681-1216, or amunroe@shiftcomm.com,
for Novell, Inc.
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