-- Novell today announced a major achievement for its identity and security
management software -- rapidly approaching 6,000 customers worldwide, Novell's
identity and security management offerings increase operational efficiency and
user productivity, enforce compliance with industry regulations and simplify
and automate identity management processes. Demonstrating its scalability and
flexibility, Novell's products are being widely deployed across many different
heterogeneous IT environments, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small
businesses in a variety of industries including financial services,
healthcare, government and education. A few of the thousands of customers
using Novell's identity and security management solutions are Abercrombie &
Fitch, BASF, Catholic Healthcare West, Endesa, Fairchild Semiconductor,
Fairfax County Public Schools,
"End-to-end, secure identity and access management (IAM) within a
distributed systems infrastructure is a key goal of most organizations today,"
said
Cobb County School District Streamlines User Provisioning
Cobb County School District recently selected Novell to centralize its
identity infrastructure and comply with Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA) for protecting student and faculty information. The second-largest
school district in
"Novell has delivered an automated, centralized identity system allowing
us to meet compliance requirements and synchronize identity information across
heterogeneous platforms and applications," said
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"Novell provided a comprehensive identity management solution that allows
us to do everything we want to do," said
Novell Identity and Security Management Solutions
Novell's identity and security management solutions are designed to help enterprises with their most pressing business challenges of reducing the risk of identity and data theft, streamlining IT administration, enforcing business policies and proving compliance with government mandates. Our broad portfolio of identity-based solutions operate in heterogeneous environments, supporting many platforms and applications, allowing companies to leverage their existing IT investments. Novell's identity and security management solutions -- which include Novell Identity Manager, Novell Access Manager(TM), Novell SecureLogin and Novell Sentinel(TM) -- work well independently or can be integrated as part of a complete security solution.
"Novell is continually adapting our identity solutions to meet our customers' most pressing business challenges, which today are governance, risk management and compliance," said Jim Ebzery, senior vice president of Identity and Security Management at Novell. "Novell makes it easier for our customers to automate and centralize their identity infrastructure by offering tools to simplify the deployment process, partnerships with specialized vendors to ensure an end-to-end identity infrastructure, and integration with our single sign-on and security information and event monitoring solutions to provide organizations with a holistic view of the people, processes and policies in their environment."
For more information about Novell's identity and security management solutions, visit http://www.novell.com/management/security.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit http://www.novell.com.
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