CA has announced CA IAM r12, a new version of its identity and access management solution that helps customers securely and efficiently enable their businesses with service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services.

According to the release, CA IAM r12 provides the identity lifecycle management, access management, workflow automation, delegated administration, reporting, federation and other capabilities IT organisations require to efficiently and securely deliver critical business services and provide internal and external users with an enhanced customer experience—regardless of platform.

The new version claims to enhance security controls for emerging SOA architectures and other application architectures on both distributed and mainframe platforms; facilitate the extension of IAM capabilities to all business services across the enterprise to support policy-based security and governance, ease regulatory compliance and governance by automating IAM-related controls, providing security policy analysis and comprehensive reporting; increase inter-enterprise business enablement through enhanced identity federation; and provide support for IPv6 and FIPS PUB 140-2 for added security.

“CA IAM is the cornerstone solution within CA’s Security Management offerings and is an essential component of an integrated approach to IT management. As IT organisations are called upon to provide a wider range of services to more users and user communities—and as IT security controls come under increased regulatory scrutiny—the management of identities and access rights is becoming more challenging than ever,” said Dave Hansen, senior vice president and general manager of CA’s Security Management business unit. “CA IAM r12 addresses this challenge by empowering IT to more effectively and efficiently manage access to data and applications—even in SOA and Web services environments.”

CA is rolling out CA IAM r12 in phases. The first phase features CA SOA Security Manager, a solution that provides identity-based Web services security—including authentication, authorisation, auditing and protection against XML threats—all in a single integrated solution. It also includes new versions of CA SiteMinder, CA Directory, and five CA solutions for z/OS.