Evidian announces a new release of E-SSO, designed for advanced Microsoft environments
With “Evolution 4”, the new release of its WiseGuard software, Evidian confirms its commitment to positioning its single sign-on solution at the heart of the deployment of modern identity and access management solutions.
Paris, April 24 2007. Evidian, the European leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM), announces today the “Evolution 4” release of WiseGuard 4.5, the module of its IAM suite that manages access and protects users’ confidential data.
This new release, unveiled during the Infosecurity trade show in London, speeds up the deployment of enterprise SSO by adapting to the most complex heterogeneous environments.
“Thanks to our years of experience and proven success in the deployment of SSO solutions for large organisations such as Total, Deutsche Telekom and Nissan, we design the most suitable products, in terms of performance and service continuity, for multi-domain organisations” says Hassan Maad, Evidian’s Managing Director. “SSO solutions strongly contribute to the successful implementation of user lifecycle management systems in enterprises. An example is the compatibility of our solutions with the Microsoft ILM approach, as WiseGuard adapts to the most widespread heterogeneous environments.”
A perfect combination with Microsoft’s Active Directory and Identity Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Evolution 4 offers advanced integration with Microsoft Active Directory. An administrator can now use WiseGuard Extended Manager to manage users of multiple Active Directory domains, from a single console, and user mobility with just a few mouse clicks. As Evolution 4 natively supports ADAM and Windows Vista, it can be transparently combined with existing infrastructures. Organisations can, therefore, get the best value for their Microsoft Active Directory investment.
“Evidian’s WiseGuard further extends the capabilities of Microsoft’s ILM offering, providing our customers with a best-of-breed Desktop/Enterprise Single Sign-On solution, by utilising the existing availability, resilience and security of Active Directory” says Daniel Meyer, the Microsoft Enterprise Technology Strategist, Identity Management. “WiseGuard in conjunction with ADAM supports the automated discovery of user accounts and links very nicely with ILM. This approach removes the cost of introducing and managing new infrastructure therefore delivering rapid ROI to our customers. Evidian’s WiseGuard is especially valuable if Kerberos and ADFS are not sufficient to provide SSO in very complex, heterogeneous enterprise environments with many legacy systems.”
Service assurance and high availability for authentication services
Building on the existing redundancy features of WiseGuard, the new features make it possible to configure multiple administration servers for the same LDAP domain, replicating both administration actions and the log of those actions.
Ready-to-use reports for compliance with legal and regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley
The audit function has been extended and now covers all access and administration-related events. Modelled on a role-based management system, Extended Manager brings in advanced administration tools, making it possible to precisely adapt access management to existing business processes.
By natively providing fingerprint management over the entire SSO cycle – from user registration to authentication – WiseGuard makes strong authentication an integral part of the auditability requirement of present-day regulations. Biometrics can also be combined with smartcard-based authentication.
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