CA's eTrust SiteMinder Supports Identity Federation With SAML 2.0

CA Extends Identity Federation Leadership With SAML 2.0 Support in eTrust SiteMinder

Helps Reduce Cost and Risk of Connecting Distributed Business Applications and Users Across Web Domains

Islandia, NY, USA. August 31, 2005.

Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced the availability of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) 2.0 support in eTrust SiteMinder, its industry-leading Web access management solution, enabling organizations to provide their users with seamless access to Web applications both within and across corporate boundaries.

eTrust SiteMinder provides flexible, scalable, and manageable federation capabilities that enable customers to federate as an Identity Provider or Service Provider with multiple partners. SAML facilitates identity federation by providing a standardized way to exchange user authentication, entitlement and attribute information across internal and external sites, regardless of the type of security infrastructure in place.

"Interest in identity federation continues to grow as enterprises expand the number of applications that are exposed to external business partners, suppliers, and customers," said Gerry Gebel, senior analyst with Burton Group. "These enterprises should include federation as part of their broader identity management architecture and prepare to support multiple versions and protocols, if required by partners."

CA's federation platform — including eTrust SiteMinder and eTrust TransactionMinder — is part of a broader eTrust Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy. CA has more than 100 customers currently leveraging its federation platform to enable hundreds of federated partnerships. Through identity federation, organizations can share identity information with partners in a secure, controlled and automated manner - enabling users to navigate Web applications deployed across internal and external organizations without having to re-authenticate at each site.

Key attributes of CA's federation platform include:

Fulfillment of key enterprise requirements: CA's eTrust federation platform provides the configuration, deployment, and monitoring services essential for ensuring the scalability of federation deployments. These federation capabilities are complemented by authentication, authorization, and audit services — enabling organizations to meet their security management requirements.
Adaptable federation architectures: CA customers can securely enable federation using Web browsers or Web services. They can also incorporate federation mechanisms into their overall IAM implementation to enforce a common set of security policies across the enterprise.
Simplified partner enablement: eTrust SiteMinder also provides a lightweight SAML Affiliate Agent that quickly and easily extends identity federation to partner organizations that are not otherwise federation-enabled.

"Identity federation is playing an increasingly important role in how organizations enable business units, business partners, and outsourced service providers to securely and seamlessly work together," said Bill Bartow, senior vice president of eTrust Identity and Access Management at CA. "CA's proven eTrust federation platform allows our customers to extend their IAM deployments to securely manage user access to applications that cross organizational boundaries, while improving the end user experience."

Developed by the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee, SAML is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement and attribute information to internal or partner organizations. CA is committed to supporting the key federation specifications and standards with support for SAML since its inception and demonstrated interoperability with Liberty Alliance Project ID-FF and Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

About CA

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest management software companies, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com.

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See: "Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V2.0 Approved as OASIS Standard." General references in "Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)."

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Computer Associates International, Inc. today announced the availability of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) 2.0 support in eTrust SiteMinder, its industry-leading Web access management solution, enabling organizations to provide their users with seamless access to Web applications both within and across corporate boundaries. eTrust SiteMinder provides flexible, scalable, and manageable federation capabilities that enable customers to federate as an Identity Provider or Service Provider with multiple partners. SAML facilitates identity federation by providing a standardized way to exchange user authentication, entitlement and attribute information across internal and external sites, regardless of the type of security infrastructure in place. "Interest in identity federation continues to grow as enterprises expand the number of applications that are exposed to external business partners, suppliers, and customers," said Gerry Gebel, senior analyst with Burton Group. "These enterprises should include federation as part of their broader identity management architecture and prepare to support multiple versions and protocols, if required by partners." CA's federation platform — including eTrust SiteMinder and eTrust TransactionMinder — is part of a broader eTrust Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy. CA has more than 100 customers currently leveraging its federation platform to enable hundreds of federated partnerships. Through identity federation, organizations can share identity information with partners in a secure, controlled and automated manner - enabling users to navigate Web applications deployed across internal and external organizations without having to re-authenticate at each site. Key attributes of CA's federation platform include: Fulfillment of key enterprise requirements: CA's eTrust federation platform provides the configuration, deployment, and monitoring services essential for ensuring the scalability of federation deployments. These federation capabilities are complemented by authentication, authorization, and audit services — enabling organizations to meet their security management requirements. Adaptable federation architectures: CA customers can securely enable federation using Web browsers or Web services. They can also incorporate federation mechanisms into their overall IAM implementation to enforce a common set of security policies across the enterprise. Simplified partner enablement: eTrust SiteMinder also provides a lightweight SAML Affiliate Agent that quickly and easily extends identity federation to partner organizations that are not otherwise federation-enabled. "Identity federation is playing an increasingly important role in how organizations enable business units, business partners, and outsourced service providers to securely and seamlessly work together," said Bill Bartow, senior vice president of eTrust Identity and Access Management at CA. "CA's proven eTrust federation platform allows our customers to extend their IAM deployments to securely manage user access to applications that cross organizational boundaries, while improving the end user experience." Developed by the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee, SAML is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement and attribute information to internal or partner organizations. CA is committed to supporting the key federation specifications and standards with support for SAML since its inception and demonstrated interoperability with Liberty Alliance Project ID-FF and Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). About CA Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest management software companies, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com. Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See: "Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) V2.0 Approved as OASIS Standard." General references in "Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)."