Secure Identity Management Solutions from DSS
(23 Jul 2003)
Dublin, Ireland: 23th July 2003
Every decision you make about giving people access to your business, and every effort you make to deliver services or content to people, is based on identity. You can't deliver resources to people-or effectively control access to those resources-unless you know who they are, how they relate to your business, and what they need from you.
If yours is like most businesses today, you are under enormous pressure to transform your technology investments into strategic value. To meet the challenge, you must give employees greater access to your business resources – regardless of where the resources reside or where the employees are located –an you must simplify access to those resources. You must also enable customers and trading partners to conduct business with you electronically. Most importantly, you have to accomplish all this while keeping your business resources safe and secure.
The following are typical of some of the issues faced by organisations today that can no longer be ignored:
The time taken to give new employees access to all business resources and services they need is too long and takes a heavy toll on employee productivity
Security officers are concerned with employees who have left an organisation weeks or even months and who may still have access to some information resources.
Call centre personnel cannot view up-to-date customer information and provide the kind of service that keeps customers satisfied.
Information systems purchased by a company may take up to a couple of months to be tied into the enterprise network
As the number of business resources and users grow, the information technology costs are outpacing the budgets as a result of the manual processes staff use to manage user accounts across all the different systems. In addition help desk costs are hugely increased because of the growing numbers of users who have forgotten their passwords. IT staff have to spend far too much time performing these administrative tasks, leaving little time to focus on strategic issues.
Novell Nsure, (Secure Identity Mangement Solution) places a robust identity and access management foundation at the heart of your IT infrastructure. This foundation unifies identity information and policies across all the different systems in your organization. It safeguards your resources from intruders. And it allows you to present your customers, partners, and employees with a dynamic combination of information, resources, and processes-all based on their relationship with your business
With Nsure, you can give new employees fast, automatic access to everything they need to be totally productive on their first day. You can grant people inside and outside your organization safe, controlled access to your corporate resources-and build more productive, personalized relationships with everyone who matters to your business. You can allow your customers and partners to create and change their own profiles and preferences. And you can develop password management solutions that allow people to access all the information they need-across many different systems-using a single username and password.
Novell Nsure delivers all these capabilities without disrupting your existing systems or forcing you to change the way you do business. And every Nsure component is designed to plug into-and work flawlessly with-the technology you already have in place. This flexible, modular approach means you can add new capabilities that match your business requirements and meet your most pressing identity management needs. But no matter where you start, you'll always be creating a flexible, secure foundation that makes it easy to add new capabilities later.
DSS are Novell business experts and have the skills and in-house expertise to assist organisations in evaluating and deploying Novell’s Nsure solutions. For more detailed information on Secure Identity management solutions as well as white papers, check out www.novell.com/nsure.