RSA Security has announced RSA Access Manager 6.0 software (formerly RSA ClearTrust software) to help protect Web-based resources and enforce centralised user access policies as companies grapple with compliance requirements.

New features in RSA Access Manager 6.0 software include hierarchical delegated administration, operational instrumentation and health monitoring, SmartRules extended results, extended interoperability with Microsoft technology, expanded logging, 64-bit computing support and an enhanced graphical user interface (GUI).

New features delivered in RSA Access Manager 6.0 software include:

• Hierarchical delegated administration: Large organisations often have multiple business units and partners, with many staff tasked at supporting the Web access management infrastructure. Hierarchical delegated administration allows companies to split empowerment rights by placing administrative groups in parent-child relationships, where a parent-child relationship is defined as a one-to-many relationship between the parent group (one) and the child groups (many). This new functionality makes it easier for large enterprises to delegate tasks across large collections of administrative groups. Hierarchical delegated administration also enables service providers to deploy a single instance of RSA Access Manager to support multiple customers.
  
• Operational instrumentation and health monitoring: A new instrumentation server with simple network management protocol (SNMP) support may link RSA Access Manager software to a network management system (NMS), enabling customers to monitor RSA Access Manager software performance and health in real-time, empowering companies to easily identify configuration changes that may improve the system's performance.
  
• SmartRules extended results: Organisations' Web infrastructures increasingly require dynamic interactivity and workflow to maintain a high-quality user experience. SmartRules extended results provide new policy flexibility and responses to offer a dynamic user experience and lower the cost of developing workflows.
  
• Extended interoperability with Microsoft technology: RSA Access Manager 6.0 now supports deploying with Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) and Microsoft Active Directory (AD). Organisations may deploy RSA Access Manager on Microsoft ADAM while the system accesses user and group information from Microsoft AD. This new deployment profile may improve deployment times, as Microsoft AD no longer needs proprietary RSA Access Manager schema to be deployed.
  
• Expanded logging: RSA Access Manager 6.0 provides richer granularity in logging and reporting, enabling organisations to better address compliance mandates that require organisations to sufficiently manage access to private data.
  
• 64-bit computing support: Organisations today face growing demands on their computing infrastructure, and new 64-bit operating system platform support enables organisations with large deployments to easily scale to millions of users. For organisations with smaller deployments, 64-bit support may enable organisations to deploy the latest low cost 64-bit servers, reducing the infrastructure cost of a Web access management solution.
  
• Enhanced GUI: RSA Access Manager 6.0 now offers dynamic searching, sorting, and context sensitive drop down menus, enabling more efficient system administration.

RSA Access Manager 6.0 software delivers out-of-the-box interoperability with RSA SecurID two-factor authentication technology, enabling customers to strongly protect users' Web SSO. In addition, the product offers backward compatibility (to RSA ClearTrust 5.0).

Related links: (Open in a new window.)
www.rsasecurity.com/accessmanager

View printable version (opens in new window)
Back