Atos Origin and Novell - A Global Partnership delivering Innovative Solutions in the area of Identity and Security Management
Identity and Security Management continues to be an important topic in boardrooms around the globe. Companies must manage users and control their access, mitigate security risks, and comply with a growing list of government and industry regulations.
Atos Origin and Novell address these challenges with a comprehensive set of Identity and Access Management services and technologies. As a leading IT services company, Atos Origin has the proven capabilities and expertise to help organisations realise a rapid return on their Identity and Access Management investments. Novell delivers identity and access management technologies that are consistently recognised as the best in the industry.
Even in this tough economic climate, CIOs and CSOs recognize the urgency of investing in identity and security solutions. The key drivers for these implementations are revealed in the following CIO/CSO challenges:
- How do I minimise risk, uncertainty and policy violations?
- Can I reduce the cost of ensuring and proving compliance?
- Can I manage the impact of new regulations affecting my business?
- How do I ensure and document the security of information, networks, and access by identifying the known and unknown threats to my business?
- Can I reduce the complexity of access and provisioning through automation of costly manual processes?
- How do I provide timely and secure access to information to facilitate acceleration of business growth?
- Can I adapt to changing economic conditions in a controlled and secured manner?
Atos Origin and Novell address these challenges with Identity and Access Management solutions that enable clients to:
- Achieve business-driven governance by automating the enforcement of business policies and compliance mandates
- Mitigate risk by restricting access to sensitive data and eliminating security loopholes
- Lower costs by managing complexity and automating identity and access management procedures
- Improve the agility of their business by providing the right people access to the right resources at the right time
The combination of Atos Origin’s experience integrating new solutions into existing IT environments, and Novell’s commitment to building interoperability into its products, makes technology and people work together as one. These solutions integrate with and extend enterprise investments, so there's no need to rip-and-replace existing infrastructure to implement the security controls that clients need. When this can be accomplished in an integrated, seamless, and automated fashion, the enterprise is more secure and more capable of ensuring continuous compliance.
At a high level, here is a snapshot of the joint solution from Atos Origin and Novell.
Identity and Access Management
Identity and Access Management solutions from Atos Origin and Novell enable organisations to automate business processes, mitigate security risks and lay the foundation for complying with internal security mandates and government regulations.
Atos Origin and Novell do this by helping clients solve the fundamental problem of managing “who has access to what.” With a full suite of offerings for business process transformation, role modeling implementation and managed services, as well as capabilities like identity life cycle management, access management, password management and enterprise single sign-on, Atos Origin and Novell help companies address their most complex identity and security challenges.
The result: clients can manage business risks, improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.