Increased Scalability Supports Requirements of Customer-Facing Web Portals;
New Features Help Companies Transition from Homegrown Technology
BEDFORD, Mass., June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RSA Security (Nasdaq:
RSAS) today announced RSA(R) Access Manager 6.0 software (formerly RSA
ClearTrust(R) software) to help protect Web-based resources and enforce
centralized user access policies as companies grapple with compliance
requirements (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and
European Data Protection Directive) and strive to improve their overall
security posture. A best-of-breed solution, RSA Access Manager provides
robust auditing and access control capabilities, while delivering Web
single sign-on (SSO) for a superior end-user experience. RSA Access Manager
6.0 software will be demonstrated on Thursday, June 15 in the company's
hospitality suite (Yosemite A) at the Burton Catalyst Conference in San
Francisco.
New features in RSA Access Manager 6.0 software include hierarchical
delegated administration, operational instrumentation and health
monitoring, SmartRules(TM) extended results, extended interoperability with
Microsoft technology, expanded logging, 64-bit computing support and an
enhanced graphical user interface (GUI).
"As companies broaden Web single sign-on projects -- particularly when
developing customer-facing portals -- there's a need to ensure ongoing
scalability, as well as the ability for a Web access management solution to
operate effectively within a complex IT network," said Bill McQuaide,
senior vice president, Enterprise Solutions Division at RSA Security. "With
RSA Access Manager 6.0 software, we provide a platform for rolling-out
large scale Web access management deployments, while offering an attractive
alternative for companies feeling the limitations of homegrown
technologies."
Geisinger Health System and Elcom International: Customer Testimonials
Geisinger Health System, a physician-led health care system that serves
more than 2 million people in forty Pennsylvania counties, leverages RSA
Access Manager software for the company's MyGeisinger patient portal, which
enables 60,000 patients to securely access portions of their electronic
medical records. RSA Access Manager also enables referring physicians to
securely access patient data, with stronger authentication provided via RSA
SecurID(R) technology.
"As an integrated healthcare organization, we face significant
compliance requirements related to the protection of highly-sensitive
patient information. With RSA Access Manager, Geisinger Health System is
able to effectively control access to private data, while ensuring that the
process is easy for both patients and physicians," said David Young,
Geisinger Information Technology program director. "RSA Access Manager 6.0
delivers features that will further support our efforts by delivering
enhanced reporting capabilities and enable Geisinger to expand our portal
projects, which will require the organization to offer delegated
administrative capabilities across multiple hospitals both within and
outside our network."
Elcom International, Inc., a leader in e-marketplace and e-procurement
solutions serving government and commercial customers worldwide, selected
RSA Access Manager software to deliver SSO capabilities for Zanzibar -- the
United Kingdom government's e-procurement marketplace. Through Zanzibar,
any public sector body in the United Kingdom may locate suppliers, browse
product catalogs and conduct transactions. RSA Access Manager software
enables Elcom to deliver SSO capabilities to Zanzibar users -- addressing
the requirement that the marketplace be deployed in a single, cohesive
fashion.
"Seamless Web single sign-on and highly-specific user access management
were critical factors when the United Kingdom's Office of Government
Commerce Buying Solutions' evaluated e-marketplace providers," said Jim
Hanrahan, vice president of information technology at Elcom International.
"Elcom's experience as a long-time RSA SecurID technology customer, paired
with the clear technology advantages of RSA Access Manager, made the
solution the ideal complement to our overall offering."
RSA Access Manager: New features and benefits
New features delivered in RSA Access Manager 6.0 software include:
* Hierarchical delegated administration: Large organizations often have
multiple business units and partners, with many staff tasked at
supporting the Web access management infrastructure. Hierarchical
delegated administration allows companies to split empowerment rights by
placing administrative groups in parent-child relationships, where a
parent-child relationship is defined as a one-to-many relationship
between the parent group (one) and the child groups (many). This new
functionality makes it easier for large enterprises to delegate tasks
across large collections of administrative groups. Hierarchical
delegated administration also enables service providers to deploy a
single instance of RSA Access Manager to support multiple customers.
* Operational instrumentation and health monitoring: A new
instrumentation server with simple network management protocol (SNMP)
support may link RSA Access Manager software to a network management
system (NMS), enabling customers to monitor RSA Access Manager software
performance and health in real-time -- empowering companies to easily
identify configuration changes that may improve the system's
performance.
* SmartRules(TM) extended results: Organizations' Web infrastructures
increasingly require dynamic interactivity and workflow to maintain a
high-quality user experience. SmartRules extended results provide new
policy flexibility and responses to offer a dynamic user experience and
lower the cost of developing workflows.
* Extended interoperability with Microsoft technology: RSA Access Manager
6.0 now supports deploying with Microsoft(R) Active Directory
Application Mode (ADAM) and Microsoft Active Directory(R) (AD).
Organizations may deploy RSA Access Manager on Microsoft ADAM while the
system accesses user and group information from Microsoft AD. This new
deployment profile may improve deployment times, as Microsoft AD no
longer needs proprietary RSA Access Manager schema to be deployed.
* Expanded logging: RSA Access Manager 6.0 provides richer granularity in
logging and reporting, enabling organizations to better address
compliance mandates that require organizations to sufficiently manage
access to private data.
* 64-bit computing support: Organizations today face growing demands on
their computing infrastructure, and new 64-bit operating system platform
support enables organizations with large deployments to easily scale to
millions of users. For organizations with smaller deployments, 64-bit
support may enable organizations to deploy the latest low cost 64-bit
servers, reducing the infrastructure cost of a Web access management
solution.
* Enhanced GUI: RSA Access Manager 6.0 now offers dynamic searching,
sorting, and context sensitive drop down menus, enabling more efficient
system administration.
RSA Access Manager 6.0 software delivers out-of-the-box
interoperability with RSA SecurID(R) two-factor authentication technology,
enabling customers to strongly protect users' Web SSO experience. In
addition, RSA Access Manager 6.0 offers backward compatibility (to RSA
ClearTrust 5.0), enabling current customers to easily upgrade. RSA Access
Manager (as RSA ClearTrust) was named 2006 Identity and Access Management
product of the year by Information Security magazine and
SearchSecurity.com.
Availability
RSA Access Manager 6.0 software will be available worldwide in August
2006. More information is available online at
http://www.rsasecurity.com/accessmanager.
About RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc. is the expert in protecting online identities and
digital assets. The inventor of core security technologies for the
Internet, the Company leads the way in strong authentication, encryption
and anti-fraud protection, bringing trust to millions of user identities
and the transactions that they perform. RSA Security's portfolio of
award-winning identity & access management solutions helps businesses to
establish who's who online -- and what they can do.
With a strong reputation built on a 20-year history of ingenuity,
leadership and proven technologies, we serve more than 20,000 customers --
including financial institutions representing hundreds of millions of
consumers around the globe -- and interoperate with over 1,000 technology
and integration partners. For more information, please visit
http://www.rsasecurity.com.
About Geisinger Health System
Geisinger Health System is the foremost rural healthcare provider in
the United States. Founded in 1915, it has evolved into one of the nation's
leading fully integrated healthcare providers. Serving more than two
million residents throughout central and northeastern Pennsylvania, the
physician-led organization is at the forefront of the country's rapidly
emerging electronic health records movement. With three major regional
medical centers and a 650- member group practice, the pioneering system is
home to the industry's pre- eminent not-for-profit rural HMO and the
renowned Center for Health Research and Rural Advocacy-dedicated to
creating innovative new models for patient care, satisfaction and clinical
outcomes. For more information, visit http://www.geisinger.org.
About Elcom International, Inc.
Elcom International, Inc. is an international B2B Commerce Service
Provider offering affordable solutions for buyers, sellers and commerce
communities to automate many or all of their procurement processes and
purchase most or all of their goods and services in a 'private'
eMarketplace system. PECOS, Elcom's remotely-hosted flagship solution,
enables enterprises of all sizes to achieve the many benefits of
eProcurement and eMarketplace functionality, with the system hosted by
Elcom at its own data center, eliminating the burden and cost of in-house
programming, IT infrastructure and ongoing catalog content and system
management. More information is available from Elcom's integrated Web site
at: http://www.elcominternational.com.
RSA Security, RSA, ClearTrust and SecurID are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security Inc. in the United States and/or
other countries. Microsoft and Active Directory are either registered
trademark or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States
and/or other countries. All other products and services mentioned are
trademarks of their respective companies.
For more information:
Kelli Gail Dave Howell
OutCast Communications RSA Security Inc.
(646) 442-3772 (781) 515-6303
rsa@outcastpr.com dhowell@rsasecurity.com
SOURCE RSA Security
 back to top
Related links:
http://www.rsasecurity.com/
CONTACT:
Dave Howell of RSA Security Inc.,
+1-781-515-6303, dhowell@rsasecurity.com; or Kelli Gail of
OutCast Communications, +1-646-442- 3772, rsa@outcastpr.com
|
