RSA Security Delivers Industry's Most Extensive Provisioning Alliance Program;
Companies Partner to Offer Customer Choice and Flexibility in
Provisioning for Identity and Access Management
VIENNA, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS)
today announced strategic alliances with Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Courion
and M-Tech, enabling the companies to deliver holistic and integrated identity
and access management (IAM) platforms to customers worldwide. By pairing
partners' leading provisioning technologies with RSA Security's IAM solutions,
customers will be able to leverage the respective technological strengths each
party brings to an IAM initiative. In addition, RSA Security and its
strategic provisioning partners will provide robust product integration and
jointly deliver each organization's technology expertise to customers. These
alliances extend previous product-level integration delivered through the RSA
Secured(R) Partner Program.
"Microsoft and RSA Security have a long-standing partnership and together
have delivered comprehensive IAM solutions to customers worldwide," said
Michael Stephenson, Director, Windows Server Marketing at Microsoft. "This
strategic alliance will create deeper product integration and enable joint
customers to further leverage the benefits of Microsoft Identity Integration
Server combined with RSA Security IAM solutions."
"Joint customers have already benefited from the product interoperability
established between Sun Java System Identity Manager and RSA Security identity
and access management solutions," said Sara Gates, Vice President and General
Manager of Sun Microsystems Identity Management Division. "By expanding the
companies' relationship to forge a strategic partnership, we will help ensure
our customers have the ability to leverage the most robust solutions for
provisioning, authentication and web access management technologies as they
roll out comprehensive IAM architectures."
"Our strategic partnership with RSA Security will benefit our customers by
offering them access to best of breed complementary solutions," said Kurt
Johnson, Vice President of Corporate Development for Courion. "The
integration of Courion's enterprise provisioning solution with RSA Security's
technology will enable us to enhance our customers' ability to streamline
access management across heterogeneous e-business environments while
addressing the constantly changing needs of their business."
"M-Tech has enjoyed a close relationship with RSA Security for years,
delivering integrated solutions to dozens of joint customers," said Idan
Shoham, Chief Technology Officer at M-Tech. "The integrated RSA Security/M-
Tech solution helps many organizations to more securely and efficiently
provision, manage and deactivate RSA SecurID tokens, RSA ClearTrust web access
management accounts and RSA Certificate Manager digital certificates. We look
forward to continued growth in the M-Tech/RSA Security partnership, to support
even more customers in the future."
RSA Security's identity and access management solutions -- including RSA
SecurID(R) two-factor authentication, RSA ClearTrust(R) web access management
software, RSA(R) Sign-On Manager enterprise single sign-on solution and RSA(R)
Federated Identity Manager software -- enable customers to establish, protect
and leverage trusted identities online. RSA Security, together with
Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Courion and M-Tech, will empower customers to
further leverage trusted identities across the enterprise, as part of an end-
to-end IAM solution.
RSA Security's strategic provisioning partner program expands on an
existing strategic alliance with Thor Technologies and bolsters previously
established product interoperability with these and other companies through
the RSA Secured Partner Program. Solutions addressed in these new strategic
alliances include:
* Microsoft -- Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 is a
centralized service that stores and integrates identity information for
organizations with multiple directories. The goal of MIIS 2003 is to
provide organizations with a unified view of all known identity
information about users, applications, and network resources.
* Sun Microsystems -- Sun Java System Identity Manager, the industry's
only complete user provisioning and meta-directory solution that
enhances enterprise security -- while simultaneously delivering a
significant ROI. Identity Manager is a key component of the Sun
identity management product portfolio.
* Courion -- Courion AccountCourier(R) software is a fully automated user
provisioning solution that quickly and easily accommodates changes to
the business, IT and operations by enabling authorized individuals to
instantly grant, revoke or modify access to any operating system,
application, Web portal or other IT or physical assets without manual
intervention.
* M-Tech -- M-TechID-Synch(R) solution automates all facets of user
provisioning. It builds on the proven technology of P-Synch(R) solution
to streamline user administration and enforce security policies.
"There are a variety of provisioning solutions on the market today, which
provide customers with a broad range of choice and flexibility," said Sally
Hudson, Research Manager, Security Products and Services at IDC. "By
establishing strategic partnerships with a range of technology providers, RSA
Security is working to ensure that customers have a high degree of flexibility
and choice to leverage the provisioning solution that best addresses the
organization's specific identity and access management challenges."
"Establishing strategic provisioning partnerships with Microsoft, Sun
Microsystems, Courion and M-Tech will provide our customers access to an
integrated set of robust provisioning solutions as they move toward deploying
complete IAM architectures," said Bill McQuaide, Senior Vice President,
Enterprise Products Division at RSA Security. "RSA Security's proven strategy
of partnering with best-of-breed solutions providers to deliver provisioning
will best serve our customers by enabling them to select the provisioning
solution that best fits an organization's overall business needs."
For more information, including technical integration details, visit the
RSA Secured Partner Solutions Directory at http://www.rsasecured.com.
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 and encryption, 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 18,000 customers around
the globe and interoperate with more than 1,000 technology and integration
partners. For more information, please visit http://www.rsasecurity.com.
RSA Security, RSA, RSA Secured, ClearTrust and SecurID are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security Inc. in the United States
and/or other countries. All other products and services mentioned are
trademarks of their respective companies.
For more information:
Courtney Hohne Dave Howell
OutCast Communications RSA Security Inc.
(415) 392-8282 (781) 515-6303
courtney@outcastpr.com dhowell@rsasecurity.com
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CONTACT:
Courtney Hohne of OutCast Communications,
+1-415-392-8282, courtney@outcastpr.com; or Dave Howell of RSA
Security Inc., +1-781-515-6303, dhowell@rsasecurity.com
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