The Identity & Access Management Blog: March 2012

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

NetIQ Sentinel 7 Log Manager - IDM's Greatest Assistant

With Identity Management becoming a more prevalent and a bigger part of your business, you’re going to want an application that can keep an eye on anything that might go wrong in your system. For that purpose, NetIQ Sentinel 7 Log Manager is the perfect tool. With its near plug-and-play installation, and one-click reporting, Sentinel 7 Log Manager can make the lives of your IT personnel easier, and make the cost of deployment, management, and storage shrink.

The first thing that caught my eye about NetIQ Sentinel 7 Log Manager was how simple it was to install. It comes built with SUSE Studio, and has so much functionality out-of-the-box, that you feel like you just plugged in another piece of hardware and kept going. Right off the line, you get event collection, autonomous updating, and work with the drivers you already have to send messages to Sentinel while watching the action on each driver. Talk about security and performance!

Secondly, Sentinel Log Manager is extremely easy, yet vastly detailed with a one-click reporting module. Instead of defining each piece of data that you need in a report, you can go ahead and use text based queries, which are clickable fields in the trace data, or you have the option of using a GUI filter. When you query your log data using Sentinel Log Manager, you have the ability to turn that search into a repeatable report. Once you’re done finding what you need, Sentinel allows you to create your own template for the data, and you define what fields are required by each report.

With all this functionality in such an easy package, Sentinel is sure to increase the productivity of your connector management personnel drastically. Whether it’s bug finding, report generations, or just simply deploying and managing connectors, Sentinel is a friend to all. Sentinel also comes with a scalable appliance on SUSE Studio in order to take advantage of non-proprietary storage systems, so you can leverage existing ordinary or cloud infrastructure.

So, there you have it. With so many reasons and uses Sentinel Log Manager has, there’s no question any IDM environment can benefit from having this amazing product by its side.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog. If you have any questions on this topic, leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you shortly. To learn more about Action Identity and NetIQ Sentinel, visit our website. To contact us directly, please click here. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Benefits of Novell Secure Login

Recently we reviewed Symplified’s Single Sign On client. Today, we'll look at another Single Sign On (SSO) application, Novell Secure Login. Novell Secure Login has a lot of the benefits many SSO applications boast, such as the ability to login once and have access to a plethora of applications you use every day for work. However, with Novell Secure Login, you also get the added ability to login from anywhere you choose and it will still feel as if you were right at your desk. Another added benefit to Novell Secure Login is its seamless integration to eDirectory or Active Directory as a user store.

With the growing technological influence on big business, users are required to login to an increasing number of applications, and countless passwords. This unfortunately leads employees to write down their passwords on sticky notes or notepads, which if left unsecured, increases the risk of unauthorized access. In order to eliminate this problem, Novell Secure Login has you login once to the application of your choice, and then it stores the password securely. Now, if you want to login to that application again, you just login to Novell Secure Login, click the application, and voila! You’re granted access! Novell Secure Login can work for upwards of 30+ applications at once, and you just have to remember one password, so no more passwords sprawled on sticky notes all over cubicles.

Novell Secure Login can also be used to enforce password policies and meet regulatory compliance. You can enforce strict password policies for your applications through Secure Login, and you can change the policies through Secure Login’s Interface at your convenience. Secure Login can also be used to enforce users to comply with regulatory compliances such as HIPPA, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and even the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act.

With Novell Secure Login, you have an astonishing amount of out-of-the-box functionality. Right away, you get support for Windows, Web, Java, and Terminal based applications. Not to mention the fact that it integrates effortlessly with Novell Identity Manager, Novell Access Manager, and Novell Sentinel. This allows you to have all your administrative duties normalized to one location or group of people. eDirectory can also be used as the user store for Novell Secure Login, as well as Active Directory.

Once again, SSO applications are becoming the wave of the future in this vastly expanding world of Web Based and application based enterprise workforces. With Novell Secure Login, you get what you would expect from an already dominant name in this field of identity management, with compliance, ease of use, and integration into so many prevalent enterprise applications.

For more information on Novell Secure Login, and to learn more about us, visit Action Identity. If you’d like to discuss an identity and access management solution for you, we invite you to contact us.

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