OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AmberPoint, the leader in policy-driven management for composite applications, today announced that its AmberPoint Management System has achieved certified interoperability with RSA^® Access Manager software from RSA, the Security Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC). As a result, joint customers are better able to minimize risk and help ensure regulatory compliance by consistently enforcing authentication and access control across distributed, heterogeneous composite applications. The certified technical interoperability has also enabled AmberPoint to join the RSA Secured^® Partner Program.

“As enterprises deploy heterogeneous and complex applications, it is important to secure identities and access controls to protect sensitive data throughout the information infrastructure,” said D.J. Long, Senior Director, Corporate Development at RSA. “The RSA Secured partnership between AmberPoint and RSA will provide our joint customers with cost-effective, policy-based management and enforcement of diverse digital identities.”

The technical interoperability between AmberPoint Management System and RSA Access Manager will deliver immediate advantages to organizations deploying composite applications. Any AmberPoint authentication or access control policy—including fine-grained, role-based access control and more advanced attribute- and context-based access control—can now be enforced against new or existing RSA Access Manager deployments. Additionally, AmberPoint Management System’s support of RSA Access Manager single-sign on capabilities helps to ensure ease-of-use for consumers and administrators of composite applications. Technical interoperability between AmberPoint Management System and RSA Access Manager is similarly policy-based and requires no coding or custom configuration to implement and deploy.

“We see the combination of our security capabilities and RSA Access Manager’s identity and access management as a very powerful best-of-breed security solution,” said Andrew Brown, Director of Security Product Strategy at AmberPoint. “As a result of our work with RSA, our joint customers can immediately begin applying their existing enterprise identity capabilities to their applications.”

Benefits of the Product Interoperability:

• Helps to minimize the risk of deploying composite applications
• Helps enable organizations to comply with industry regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA
• Provides greater ease of use for consumers and administrators of composite applications

About the RSA Secured Partner Program

The RSA Secured Partner Program is one of the largest alliance programs of its type, bringing over a dozen years of experience and hundreds of complementary solutions together. RSA SecurID^®, RSA Access Manager, RSA^® Digital Certificate Manager, RSA^® Federated Identity Manager and RSA^® Key Manager certification programs bring added assurance to customers that the solutions they are deploying are certified as interoperable with industry leading products, helping them achieve faster time to deployment and lower overall cost of ownership. The RSA Secured Partner Program reflects RSA’s commitment to providing standards-based interoperability and mutual vendor support to customers using its identity assurance and access management solutions. For more information, please visit www.rsa.com/rsasecured.

About RSA^® Access Manager

RSA Access Manager software is designed to be a primary component of any identity management system by allowing organizations to provide secure access to web applications within intranets, extranets, portals and exchange infrastructures — with transparent, single sign-on access for a positive user experience. Enabling such access can promote improved communication and facilitate business with customers, strengthen partner relationships, bolster employee productivity and reduce support costs.

Availability

The RSA Secured certified solution composed of RSA Access Manager and AmberPoint Management System version 6.5 is currently available. For more information, please visit http://www.rsa.com/rsasecured/product.aspx?id=1811.

About AmberPoint

AmberPoint provides the world's most widely distributed and implemented solutions for governing and managing composite applications. Utilizing a policy-based approach to manage the health and well-being of services-based systems, AmberPoint enables its enterprise customers to better understand system behavior, manage each transaction flowing across their distributed environments, and implement policies that automate performance management, remedy exceptional conditions and uphold security. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or apinfo@amberpoint.com, or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software.

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