Workgroup announces Novell Compliance Management

The Novell division at Workgroup has announced the immediate availability of Novell’s Compliance Management Platform, which is a comprehensive solution set to help organisations monitor network events and remedy violations as and where they occur.
To combat security threats and maintain compliance with the myriad of internal and external audit requirements, many organisations have implemented various user provisioning, access control and Web access management systems.
“Despite the efficiencies in deploying these systems, businesses are realising they have created silos of policy and security data that often require manual review to prove compliance,” says Sally Berimbau, Novell product manager at Workgroup.
“The Novell Compliance Management Platform allows organisations to integrate provisioning and access management policy with security monitoring to not only tie security to identity information, but also automatically detect, report on and remediate inappropriate and suspicious activities in real time.” The Platform offers many features designed to decrease deployment costs, lower total cost of ownership and dramatically reduce the time required to utilise provisioning, access management and security solutions.
It improves governance and security by enabling common access policies across all identity repositories and provides automated validation of preset business rules. The Compliance Management Platform automatically logs all network activity and delivers compliance reports in an audit-ready format.
Consisting of a pre-packaged set of products and integration resources, the Platform delivers all the necessary technology to accurately monitor and demonstrate compliance levels. The products and modules are integrated into a single platform but also work well as individual products in a mixed-vendor IT environment.