Overview

Today, applications, including those developed and/or hosted internally along with cloud-based applications, are accessed from locations around the globe, using an ever-growing variety of devices. With security requirements growing faster than user expectations for seamless access, it’s up to IT to efficiently grant users the access they need, when they need it—and to ensure that all access is appropriate, secure and compliant.

The Dell One Identity Cloud Access Manager 8.1 helps organizations move away from dedicated application-centric directories, and the administrative burden they represent, by connecting multiple user directories and applications into a centralized authentication “hub.” Now a single login event – and password – can create a session spanning multiple web applications, hosted locally or by software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors.

The Cloud Access Manager also enabled context-aware security through the included Security Analytics Engine (SAE), which gathers information from a number of sources to provide context upon which access decisions can be made and enforced.
The solution also allows for policy-based access controls to help eliminate inconsistent, ad-hoc security and ensure that users can access only the resources they are authorized to use based on organizationally-defined user roles. Roles and role membership can be assigned dynamically based on policies evaluated in real-time, using existing identity data. Rules-based access control can be applied down to sub-regions of a web application for enabling granular authorization.

With the Cloud Access Manager, security professionals can leverage its role as a centralized authentication and access control solution for auditing and reporting on access events for compliance, repudiation and forensics purposes. The software supports HTTP header, WS federation/trust, SAML, form fill, OAuth, OpenID Connect, federated as an identity provider and federated as a service provider.