More announcements from Gartner summit

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I never did make it to Gartner's Identity and Access Management Summit in San Diego last week. I had the misfortune to throw my back out over the weekend, and couldn't face the plane and airport. So I'd like to publicly thank Quest's Jackson Shaw for ably filling in for me on Ray Wagner's Pundits' Panel. But even though I wasn't there, I did find out about all of the announcements that were made and I'd like to share a few more with you (some were in the last issue).

The folks at Cyber-Ark introduced me to two new acronyms: SAPM (shared-account/software-account password management) and SUPM (superuser privilege management). With their new version of the Privileged Identity Management Suite, Cyber-Ark claims to be the first vendor to offer both SAPM (which they've always offered) and SUPM (the new bit in this version) in the same package. According to PR doyenne Liz Campbell, The Cyber-Ark Suite is a "…full life-cycle solution that provides a centralized point-of-control and single user interface for consistent enforcement of common policies across all shared and superuser accounts and their associated activities." She says that additionally, "…its flexible privileged account access workflows easily adapt to organizations' current processes and help support integrated audit and reporting requirements. Check and decide for yourself if this single, integrated solution provides the support for combined SAPM/SUPM management.

My friends at CA were also very busy at the conference, none more so than press handler Leanne Agurkis who had a raftload of announcements she knew I'd be interested in. Among the new products, versions and functionality recently released are:

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I never did make it to Gartner's Identity and Access Management Summit in San Diego last week. I had the misfortune to throw my back out over the weekend, and couldn't face the plane and airport. So I'd like to publicly thank Quest's Jackson Shaw for ably filling in for me on Ray Wagner's Pundits' Panel. But even though I wasn't there, I did find out about all of the announcements that were made and I'd like to share a few more with you (some were in the last issue).

The folks at Cyber-Ark introduced me to two new acronyms: SAPM (shared-account/software-account password management) and SUPM (superuser privilege management). With their new version of the Privileged Identity Management Suite, Cyber-Ark claims to be the first vendor to offer both SAPM (which they've always offered) and SUPM (the new bit in this version) in the same package. According to PR doyenne Liz Campbell, The Cyber-Ark Suite is a "…full life-cycle solution that provides a centralized point-of-control and single user interface for consistent enforcement of common policies across all shared and superuser accounts and their associated activities." She says that additionally, "…its flexible privileged account access workflows easily adapt to organizations' current processes and help support integrated audit and reporting requirements. Check and decide for yourself if this single, integrated solution provides the support for combined SAPM/SUPM management.

My friends at CA were also very busy at the conference, none more so than press handler Leanne Agurkis who had a raftload of announcements she knew I'd be interested in. Among the new products, versions and functionality recently released are:

* CA Access Control 12.5 with new features to deliver comprehensive privileged user management and enhanced host access control.

* Improved integration of CA Identity Manager 12.5 and CA Role & Compliance Manager 12.5 for more streamlined identity life-cycle management, including innovative Smart Provisioning capabilities.

* CA DLP 12.0 with extended discovery, protection and control of sensitive data, and new integrations to complementary solutions.

* CA Records Manager 12.6 with additional features for information governance and content protection, as well as addressing compliance demands.

* CA Governance, Risk & Compliance Manager 2.5 (CA GRC Manager) with new features to further strengthen its role as the primary platform for management of IT risk and compliance information and initiatives.

Agurkis also wanted to be sure I'd seen that Gartner had named CA to the "Leader's Quadrant" in the recently released Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, and also was named (by Forrester Research) a leader in "The Forrester Wave: Identity and Access Management" research report. Quite the double-header!

That's all the room we have for today, but come back next time for a look at November 1999 -- 10 years ago in identity.

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Dave Kearns is a consultant and editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management.