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Imprivata Delivers Next Version of its Converged Identity and Access Management Platform - Now for the Extended Enterprise
With OneSign, organizations of all sizes can achieve complete
centralized management and reporting of user identities across all of
their physical, network and application access points
LEXINGTON, MA - December 3, 2007 - Imprivata®, Inc., the converged identity and access management
appliance company, today announced a significant advance in its
award-winning OneSign platform. Version 4.0 extends OneSign’s
identity-centric access and authentication services across system and
geographic boundaries with complete distributed management, delegated
administration and business continuity capabilities. OneSign’s
integrated authentication management, single sign-on and physical/logical convergence functionalities can now be implemented in a fully-distributed enterprise environment.
For
the first time, a single centralized employee IT access policy can
determine every aspect of access across all users, all rights, all
locations and all conditions. OneSign delivers these capabilities with
the industry’s most easy-to-use and deploy solution without requiring
changes to existing IT and physical access infrastructures.
“Our success in helping mid-sized companies manage any number of
identity-related initiatives has attracted strong interest from larger
organizations suffering from the inability to effectively manage user
authentication and access across networks, applications and physical
locations,” said Omar Hussain, president and CEO of Imprivata. “The
OneSign platform’s flexible foundation and our on-going push to extend
its capabilities have led to the development of this new version that
enables organizations of any size to effectively apply identity
management best practices.”
“Convergence
is more than just the use of the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ smart card for
physical access and ‘traditional’ IT authentication,” noted Mark
Diodati, Identity and Privacy Strategies Senior Analyst at Burton
Group. “Organizations, particularly those that are large and
geographically-disbursed, want to make important security decisions
based upon the user’s physical location at the time of access, and
correlate user activity for intrusion prevention and forensic
purposes.”
New Distributed Architecture Powers Multi-Location Management and Fault Tolerance
The distributed functionality introduced with version
4.0 extends OneSign’s platform capabilities to manage multiple
locations with a single implementation, enabling enterprise-wide user
identity roaming and seamless fail-over for business continuity. Now a
OneSign implementation can provide secure two-factor user network authentication, single sign-on (SSO) to any application and physical/logical
identity convergence for increased security – all with consolidated
reporting – regardless of number of users, locations or access
management needs.
“Imprivata’s OneSign is a complete identity and access management security platform that can enable an organization to implement an authentication strategy, single sign-on
and now a physical access control system - integrating previously
segregated domains,” said Christopher Paidhrin, chief information
security officer, Southwest Washington Medical Center. “As a customer
from the early days of OneSign, we can appreciate the way in which
Imprivata has now extended its model to handle a more distributed
environment. The introduction of OneSign 4.0 extends these powerful
capabilities to distributed organizations, increasing security and
improving the workforce experience, regardless of access points in the
organization.”
Real Time, Integrated Reporting
OneSign 4.0 enables a user-centric view of activities
for policy enforcement and compliance purposes. OneSign’s built-in
database performs real-time replication of data across locations for
accurate status monitoring for every user employing enterprise
resources, including physical and IT assets.
Open Physical/Logical API Extends User-Centric Identity to Any Physical Access Control System
With OneSign version 4.0, Imprivata is also
introducing an open API for OneSign Physical/Logical extending its
convergence support more broadly into the physical security community.
The open API will enable access control vendors to easily incorporate
OneSign Physical/Logical’s identity-convergence capability into any
installation and allow any supported system to become a part of the
converged security platform.
“Imprivata’s identity convergence
capability is what makes its OneSign platform truly all-encompassing,”
said Marty Guay, COO, Securitas Security Systems USA, Inc. “Security
today is about turning data into information, and Imprivata, by
allowing easy consolidation of all relevant identity and security data,
makes it far easier for security personnel to connect the dots around a
security event.”
Other new features included in this release of Imprivata’s OneSign include:
o Delegated Administration – enabling hierarchical administrative support across an enterprise’s physical and IT boundaries, as required;
o Support for Multiple Accounts Per User for Any Application
– allowing administrators or other users to access specific
applications with multiple identities consistent with the role and
level of access appropriate to the task;
o Support for Vista on 64-Bit Systems – continuing to ensure that OneSign supports the widest range of Windows desktop environments; and
o Multiple Token Support – allowing the administration of tokens from multiple vendors at the same time, without need to change current infrastructure.
Imprivata’s OneSign platform is an identity and access management
solution conveniently packaged in an affordable and secure
purpose-built appliance. It offers an effective way to achieve
compliance while solving password management problems, reducing IT help
desk costs and improving user productivity and security. The solution’s
access management capabilities enable organizations to record and
control who accesses what, when, and from where, helping to comply with
corporate governance and government regulations. The OneSign platform
includes OneSign Authentication Management (AM), which increases network security by replacing network access passwords with strong authentication options; OneSign Single Sign-On
(SSO), which quickly and effectively solves password management,
security and user access issues; and OneSign Physical/Logical, which
integrates building and network access systems to enable location-based
authentication and converged identity-based access policy.