CA Identity Manager to Help Reduce IT Security Costs While Improving Compliance Processes

Business Wire, June 9, 2008

Simplified Architecture, Administration, Enhanced Reporting to Help Ease Identity Management Deployments, Optimize Identity Lifecycle Management

ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the planned release of CA Identity Manager. Designed to manage identity lifecycles from creation to modification to removal across mainframe, distributed and web environments, CA Identity Manager release 12 is slated to deliver new capabilities to help reduce the complexity and cost of an identity management deployment, while enhancing an organization's ability to comply with legal, corporate and government regulations.

CA Identity Manager is one of three CA identity and access management (IAM) products announced today. These three products--CA Identity Manager, CA Access Control Premium Edition and a new product, CA Security Compliance Manager--join seven other CA IAM products announced in October and November 2007 as part of CA IAM r12. The IAM r12 products are designed to help manage the identity lifecycle, and provide robust IT security controls, analysis and proof of compliance, and automation of compliance processes.

"Many of the new capabilities in CA Identity Manager r12 were driven by customer feedback and need. For example, by simplifying the architecture, we have reduced deployment time and improved the time-to-value from an identity management system; and by integrating CA Identity Manager with the new CA Security Compliance Manager, we plan to help customers better meet compliance demands," said Dave Arbeitel, vice president of product management, CA Security Management. "CA Identity Manager r12 along with other CA IAM r12 products are designed to deliver an integrated IAM solution with the breadth and depth of capability to address the growing need to unify the management of identities for employees, partners and customers."

In a February 2008 report, "Identity Management Market Forecast: 2007 to 2014,"* Forrester analysts estimate the market for identity and access management will grow to more than $12.3 billion in 2014, with provisioning accounting for 64 percent of market revenues.

Driven by business needs and initiatives such as security, regulatory compliance, user productivity and cost reduction, IAM technologies are gaining recognition for the value they deliver to IT and security organizations charged with helping to satisfy those business demands.

"We have been using CA's identity management solution for several years and are looking forward to the new functionality introduced by CA Identity Manager r12. Our identity management deployment is currently supporting approximately 80,000 employees from the mainframe to the distributed environment so the scalability of the product is critical for us," said Paolo Ginevro, IAM Project Manager, Unicredit. "We also anticipate the CA Identity Manager r12 reporting framework will support our compliance initiatives and help provide demonstrable IT security controls and facilitate proof of compliance."

The future release of CA Identity Manager is scheduled to deliver several important enhancements and capabilities including:

* Streamlined Architecture, Installation, and Administration - CA Identity Manager r12 continues to provide superior scalability and will introduce a more unified infrastructure to significantly streamline installation and configuration, helping to save customers both time and money. Plans for release 12 also include more granular provisioning to enable finer-grained entitlements management and automation controls to help improve administration.

* Expanded Support for IT Environments - CA Identity Manager r12 is designed to help improve return on investment through improved integration and customization capabilities. As planned, CA Identity Manager r12 will continue to offer out-of-the-box connectors for standard, enterprise applications such as Active Directory[R], SAP and others. The Connector Xpress utility is designed to help customers build connectors to custom systems through a wizard-based interface rather than writing code. In addition, every CA Identity Manager function within the user interface is designed to be exposed as a Web service, enabling customers to easily embed identity management functions into interfaces that users are already familiar with.

* Expanded Reporting - Identity management solutions improve an organization's security posture by establishing consistent and audited provisioning processes. CA Identity Manager r12 plans include improved reporting capabilities that help a business understand the status of their identity management deployment. With planned additional out-of-the-box reports, an open reporting foundation, and standard integration with Business Objects, CA aims to provide the flexibility to meet a variety of reporting requirements. CA Identity Manager r12 reports highlight both events-based data--what a user did in the past--and entitlements-based data--what a user has the ability to do--to help meet compliance demands.