Dell secures access to cloud based apps

BANGALORE, INDIA: Dell released Dell One Identity Cloud Access Manager 8.0 to give organizations control of web-based applications and OpenID Connect-compliant mobile application access activities within the organization.

Organizations today typically have a highly diverse user population as well as partners and customers who require access but are completely outside of IT’s control. All of these users require instant, always-on access to a variety of applications – on-premises, cloud-based and mobile – and IT must be able to provide this access with unparalleled security that enhances business agility, while still protecting critical corporate assets and data.

Cloud Access Manager 8.0 adds powerful, adaptive control to its already extensive access control over activities across the organization, empowering better, more accurate access decisions. This improves security and enables easier, appropriate access across a wide range of application types and access scenarios. Adding new social and mobile authentication capabilities, Cloud Access Manager gives users secure and convenient access to the broadest range of both legacy and emerging applications, while providing IT with the security and control it requires.

Murli Mohan, Director and General Manager, Dell Software Group said, “In a connected world, legacy approach to security is slowly becoming irrelevant as they operate in isolation, thus compelling the organization to manage each unit separately; which ultimately leads to futile and inept complexity. And, in the process increases cost, and risks. The latest CAM 8.0 addresses all the issues at hand, and provides security in context capabilities of Dell’s Security Analytics Engine. Our customers get an empowering view of the access activities across their organization, and let the user focus on his work without any hindrance.”

Cloud Access Manager provides unified single sign-on that includes federation and legacy authentication types, along with the capabilities of Dell’s Security Analytics Engine to execute security in context – the “who, what, where, how, and why” of access activities – and adjust enforcement to ideally suit the situation. Dell’s Security Analytics Engine correlates this contextual information with enforcement capabilities to make all access appropriate every time, all the time, and without hindering productivity for an ever-evolving user who continues to access applications in new and more complex ways.