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Single sign-on simplified with Novell SecureLogin 7
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 10 September 2009, 00:36 IST
Bangalore: Novell has launched SecureLogin 7 which will reduce the time required to SSO (single sign-on) enable the applications in an organization from weeks to days. "It is common for an employee to have many usernames and passwords to gain access to the resources needed to do their job," says Jim Ebzery, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Identity and Security, Novell. "With Novell SecureLogin 7, we have helped companies realize the productivity and cost benefits of SSO by making it easier to SSO-enable an organization's entire ecosystem of applications and services."
One of the biggest challenges that IT administrators are facing today is managing thousands of separate usernames and passwords for the applications and services used by an organization. This password proliferation causes significant losses in IT and end-user productivity, increased administration costs and security risks. In a recent Novell survey of security professionals worldwide, the majority of respondents said at least 30 percent of their IT help desk time is spent dealing with password-related issues.
For an organization to benefit from SSO, IT departments must undertake the complex and time-consuming integration of applications. "Difficult-to-integrate applications add time to implementations, and products that require custom coding that's external to the ESSO product's native automation or scripting environment can add significant implementation time and costs. A few applications can't be integrated at all," said Gregg Kreizman, Analyst, Gartner. "More Java applications are making their way into enterprises, and some vendors' products have difficulty recognizing sign-on and password change prompts when the interface provides nothing but graphical content for the ESSO product to analyze."
Novell SecureLogin 7 operates seamlessly with Windows, web, Java and enterprise applications. Also, with 64-bit support for Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Novell SecureLogin 7 delivers greater interoperability with existing platform and operating system investments. "Integrating seamlessly with Windows, web, Java and enterprise applications makes the latest version of this single sign-on solution a compelling product for our customers," said Forrest Evans, Senior Engineer, Novacoast.
Novell SecureLogin 7 is the first release following the company's acquisition of a perpetual source code license from ActivIdentity in February 2009. The acquisition further helped Novell SecureLogin strengthen its solution to help customers improve productivity, reduce password-related costs, strengthen security and lay the foundation for regulatory compliance.
