The New D message board over on Yahoo is very active. Everyone should check it out. I posted this there a few minutes ago:
Another New D investor just forwarded me this web site. The link below is to
InfoWeek Magazines internet site. On the site is a story about single signon
solutions. The article contains a pretty glowing review on New D's Control-SA,
and Memco's Proxima Manager, which uses Control-SA as a part of its core.
Go to the site below. I don't know how long the story will be out there, so I will
try to put the New D part in this message. Here is the link:
informationweek.com
Here is some of the text from the story, but I suggest you go to the link and read the whole article:
Two years ago, Keystone Financial Inc. began looking for a single
sign-on system--to no avail. Like other customers, the Harrisburg,
Pa., financial-services company had trouble finding a vendor that
could handle its multiple systems and platforms, says Mary
Shannon, Keystone's manager of data security. So Keystone chose
a security tool, Control-SA from New Dimension Software Ltd., that
lets administrators centrally manage access controls on a number
of systems and applications, as well as synchronize user IDs and
passwords. Control-SA doesn't reduce the number of passwords,
but it does help an IT organization centrally manage everyone's
passwords and access mechanisms.
Information Repository
Here's how it works: Agents are installed on the various platforms
the user wants to manage. These agents gather information from
the system and populate a repository with the passwords and user
IDs that are authorized to the system. For example, an NT system
knows which user IDs and passwords are allowed to access it, and
it keeps that information in a secure user database.
Next, the administrator sets up templates of access rights based on
user roles. Because Control-SA can be managed from a Web
browser, administrators can check user access from any location.
Control-SA also lets IT shops sync up the various end-user
passwords.
Unlike native access, in which a user logs on directly to the
application or system, password synchronization requires the end
user to log on to a subsystem, such as Control-SA, which then
matches that user's logon and password information, which is held
in the repository, with all the various back-end systems the user has
authority to access. "With password synchronization, when a
password is changed, Control-SA will change all the other
passwords," Shannon says. |
