Teamstudio Policy Manager® V1.5 Improves Security and Reporting for Lotus Notes Organizations to Comply with Regulatory Requirements

Business Wire, Jan 22, 2007

New Reporting Features Support Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance by Allowing Auditors to Know Who Has Access to Specific Lotus Notes / Domino Applications

BEVERLY, Mass. -- Teamstudio([R]), the global leader in software asset management solutions for Lotus([R]) Notes([R]), releases Teamstudio Policy Manager version 1.5 with four major enhancements that improve security of Lotus Notes applications and support industry best practices for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. New access reports in Teamstudio Policy Manager take a significant step forward in allowing developers and administrators to easily provide auditors with detailed information on who has access to specific applications.

Teamstudio Policy Manager simplifies the task of making wide-scale changes to security settings. A server-based application, Teamstudio Policy Manager ensures that all security policies are automatically maintained across multiple servers and continues to protect the configuration when new applications are promoted.

"Lotus Notes offers its users excellent security features, but these are hard to manage in large-scale installations," said Ian Smith, President of Teamstudio. "With organizations under increased scrutiny from government and industry regulators, there is pressure on managers, all the way up to the board-level, to seek a robust, cost-effective solution to automate Lotus Notes application security management. Teamstudio Policy Manager boosts the security of an organization's software assets enabling it to meet compliance standards while benefiting from the collaborative nature of a Lotus Notes/Domino infrastructure."

The four new enhancements to Policy Manager include.

1. New & Improved Reports - Three new reports are now available in Policy Manager: Effective Access report, Server Access report, and Username Conflicts report. These new reports can support Sarbanes Oxley compliance by allowing auditors to determine who has access to specific applications. The first two reports, Effective Access and Server Access reports allow users to view all of the usernames listed in each Notes group. Even if groups are nested within groups, all of the usernames will be displayed in one simple report. Prior to this feature a user had to find each group that had access to an application and then navigate to the Domino Directory to look up the user names in each group. The third report, Username Conflicts report, allows speedy resolution of Username conflicts. In Notes, e-mail may not function correctly if multiple users have the same short name or full name. The Username Conflicts report will identify all person documents that contain the same short name, full name or internet address and the problem can be readily corrected.

2. Better organization of views - In Policy Manager the Reports and Views folders are now individually identified in the Policy Manager tree hierarchy on the left side of the user interface, making it easier to find information.

3. ACL Lockdown - In certain cases it is required to assign an individual, "Manager" level access to a database and at the same time limit the "Manager" role such that the Access Control List (ACL) cannot be changed by that individual. The new release of Policy Manager allows improved control of the "Manager" role by preventing changes made via the ACL dialog.

4. Better Stored ACL support: Users can now easily apply multiple "Stored ACL's" to one database. This simplifies management and control of Notes databases.

About Teamstudio

Teamstudio is a software asset management leader that brings enterprise-class control, efficiency and scalability to your Lotus Notes environment. We deploy our unique technology, tools and expertise to automate key processes, rationalize massive Notes infrastructures, enforce security policies, and maximize the effectiveness of your development team. We call this approach Precision Asset Management. Visit our website http://www.teamstudio.com

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