SINGAPORE, July 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- RSA® Via Lifecycle and Governance is designed to
contribute critical new and enhanced capabilities to aid detection
of advanced attacks, automatically alerting users to unauthorized
access changes, including privilege escalations frequently
performed by malicious actors who have compromised user
identities
- Integration with RSA Archer® Governance, Risk, and
Compliance is engineered to improve visibility for incident
handlers through sharing of identity context, and connects access
governance and lifecycle processes to the enterprise risk
model
- Helps accelerate business processes for onboarding new users,
and streamlining user interface configuration tasks
- Scalability, reliability and performance enhancements helps
ensure IT can effectively govern and administer thousands of
applications in an organization
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RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced
the newest version of RSA Via® Lifecycle and Governance,
and the completion of the RSA Via family of Smart Identity
solutions. Improved lifecycle management and governance are
critical capabilities for managing identities in today's
environments where cloud and mobility have dramatically transformed
business processes and requirements and advanced threat actors
increasingly target and exploit identities as a primary attack
vector. RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance (formerly known as
Identity Management and Governance, and Aveksa), helps
organizations efficiently and reliably deliver users the right
access to the right resources from the endpoint to the network to
the cloud, without sacrificing security, compliance, or agility.
With new automated detection capabilities enforcing access policies
and processes, RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance now is designed to
improve security through enhanced visibility into authorized and
unauthorized changes across the network. This offers
enterprises the ability to quickly detect malicious privilege
escalation, reverse it, and break a key link in the cyber-attack
chain of advanced threats.
Secure Identity Management
Identities and credentials are a primary target for hackers and
criminals. With the latest enhancements to RSA Via Lifecycle and
Governance, Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams can further
contribute to organizational cybersecurity initiatives while
helping to ensure their businesses' identity needs are efficiently
and effectively met. By actively validating all user access changes
against policy and processes, the RSA solution is engineered to
quickly detect unauthorized user access changes - including
privilege escalation performed by malicious actors. This capability
also detects "out of band" access grants by end users who bypass IT
processes, reducing security risk and ensuring consistent
enforcement.
RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance helps Security Operations
Center (SOC) teams better analyze and triage incidents by providing
essential identity context. Enhancing user IDs with detailed views
of a user, their job role, and any inappropriate access rights, SOC
teams now can more quickly and effectively analyze and remediate
security incidents.
Robust, Scalable, and Reliable Identity Management
Organizations demand that their IAM platforms be scalable and
reliable to support a 24x7, global business environment. RSA Via
Lifecycle and Governance is engineered to provide enhanced
enterprise-class scalability and high availability through
significant performance improvements, enabling IT to effectively
govern and administer 100s, and even 1,000s of applications in an
organization. Enhancements to RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance also
help allow organizations to collect and process identity data on a
more frequent basis, providing better and faster visibility into
any user access changes. Additionally, RSA has improved system
resiliency to erroneous or corrupted application data.
Business Agility
Information Security teams often struggle to balance the demands
of the business – which typically wants broader and faster access –
with the need to maintain a strong security and compliance stance.
With the new capabilities of RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance,
organizations can quickly respond to business needs, without
sacrificing security and compliance. IAM teams are now able to more
rapidly on-board applications through a wizard-based UI, and
leverage improved ease-of-use for workflow, form, and application
on-boarding configuration. These capabilities build upon RSA's
philosophy of "configuration, not customization," enabling IAM
teams to more rapidly respond to business needs.
An Integrated Solution – One RSA
RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance completes the new RSA Via
portfolio of smart identity solutions, including, RSA Via Access,
and RSA SecurID® and complemented by other RSA
solutions such as RSA® Adaptive Authentication.
With RSA Via, organizations have a comprehensive solution for
managing all of their identity needs from the endpoint to the
cloud.
Outside of the RSA Via portfolio, RSA Via Lifecycle and
Governance integrates with RSA Archer® GRC to enable a
consistent and actionable risk model for organizations. Application
risk can be shared between RSA Archer GRC and RSA Via Lifecycle and
Governance, helping to ensure that core IAM business processes –
such as access review frequency and access request approval
workflows – reflect risk levels appropriately. RSA Via Lifecycle
and Governance can also be used to help prove enforcement of
relevant policies and control procedures, reducing risk and meeting
compliance requirements defined within RSA Archer GRC.
The newest release of RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance will be
available in Q3 2015.
Executive Quote:
Jim Ducharme, Vice President
of Engineering and Product Management, RSA
"Legacy IAM systems aren't capable of addressing the constantly
evolving requirements of today's mobile and cloud-based
environments. Organizations need to approach identity, security and
compliance from a holistic perspective, and adopt solutions that
are as agile as and scale to meet the needs of their dynamic
enterprise IT environments. With the introduction of RSA Via
Lifecycle and Governance, we've completed the RSA Via portfolio of
smart identity management solutions and given organizations an
end-to-end identity solution. RSA Via is built for a world where
mobility, cloud computing and advanced threats are all an integral
part of the identity management and authentication challenge. We've
connected the dots between those key pain points in a way no one
else can - with an analytics- and risk-based approach to
identifying roles, managing identities and locking down one of
today's most common tactics in advanced threats— user compromise
and privilege escalation. The enhancements to RSA Via Lifecycle and
Governance helps meet the needs of today's evolving IT landscape,
making managing access easier, improving visibility and
effectiveness, while also improving governance, efficiency and
security for enterprises."
Analyst Quote
Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group
"Information Security professionals often struggle to maintain a
secure IT environment while delivering efficient and reliable
access to business systems and resources. Employees want access to
business applications from every device, but IT needs to take the
appropriate steps to balance user convenience with security and
compliance. Leading enterprises are adopting identity management
systems that facilitate business agility AND strong security so
they can rapidly detect and respond to issues such as malicious
privilege escalation."
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
- Watch Jim Ducharme speak more
about the new features of RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance in this
video
- Connect with RSA via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and
the RSA Speaking of Security Blog and Podcast
About RSA
RSA's Intelligence Driven Security solutions help organizations
reduce the risks of operating in a digital world. Through
visibility, analysis, and action, RSA solutions give customers the
ability to detect, investigate and respond to advanced threats;
confirm and manage identities; and ultimately, help prevent IP
theft, fraud and cybercrime. For more information on RSA,
please visit www.rsa.com.
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