Quest extends Quest One identity solution

BANGALORE, INDIA: Quest Software, Inc. has further extended its Quest One Identity Solution. Organizations can now identify and manage user and group access to critical corporate data across the enterprise with the new Quest Access Manager.

Quest’s patent-pending technology provides a real-time security map that bridges the divide between Active Directory security and enterprise access. The newly available Access Manager provides a single console for identifying and managing user and group access to resources such as files, folders and shares across the enterprise. This eliminates the complexity of managing access throughout the enterprise, while increasing security, maintaining operational efficiency and ensuring continuous compliance.

“A decision was made at Georgian College to streamline operations, and we have seen significant improvements as a result of automating our provisioning process with ActiveRoles Server,” said David Johnson, director of IT, Georgian College. “We also have discovered a need to automate and distribute management for access control. We see Quest Access Manager as a critical component that will help clean up our resource entitlements, establish a solid security model and provide management to end users.”

Access Manager enables IT to manage the access lifecycle by providing visibility into user entitlements, and lets the organization enforce their business access policies while adhering to Microsoft best practices, ensuring that rogue users cannot tamper with these policies.

“IT Organizations are being inundated with the management of identities, and tasked with ensuring secure management of resources as their organizations transform constantly,” said John Milburn, vice president and general manager, Windows management, Quest Software. “At Quest, we understand these pains and have added the capabilities of resource access management to our core identity and access management toolset. Access Manager augments Quest One Identity Solution to bring the management of all identities and resources into Active Directory, enhancing security, improving efficiency and achieving compliance.”