Securent Entitlement Management Solution Released

Securent has released a new version of Securent Entitlement Management Solution (EMS), further enabling organizations to meet their security and compliance requirements by securing access to sensitive applications and information.

The selling point for the new release is "superior end-to-end protection for organizations' sensitive information, the broadest application support available in an entitlement management product, and increased performance and scalability for distributed enterprise deployments."

Gus Tepper, vice president of software development for business information provider The First American Corporation, stated: "Our compliance and information security efforts demand that we manage user entitlements and identity access across our entire enterprise and not just within individual applications. We selected Securent EMS because of its compliance with the XACML standard and its ability to provide us with policy-driven access controls that have the granularity, consistency, scalability and flexibility we need across our global enterprise. Securent's approach to fine-grained entitlement management has the potential to significantly reduce the time and cost of developing custom applications and portals. We are particularly interested in the broader application and platform support, including JBoss Portal, of the new Securent EMS 3.0 release."

Securent EMS v3.0 now extends its capabilities to protect critical off-the-shelf applications, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, JBoss Portal 2.4 and 2.6, and BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2. Other enhancements include end-to-end protection of sensitive data by adding consistent and seamless policy enforcement to databases, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, to complement existing policy enforcement capabilities at the application and presentation layers.

Regulatory frameworks that the software can help with are Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Basel Capital Accord (Basel II), and the National Association of Securities Dealers Rule 2711 (NASD 2711).