 "Cloakware, Oracle Join Hands To Enhance Access Management")
Cloakware, a provider of privileged password management solutions, has announced that it is working with Oracle to extend their suite of Identity Management solutions with its flagship product, Password Authority. By combining these two products, Oracle is now able to enhance customers’ security management, with a comprehensive solution to manage, protect and monitor access to vital data.
Cloakware’s white-box cryptographic techniques ensure defense-in-depth for end-to-end security of data and keys, especially where insiders have access to the execution environment. Working with Cloakware enables Oracle to offer its customers a solution to securely store and manage privileged passwords for human administrators and runtime applications without changes to the customer’s existing infrastructure.
Password Authority leverages multiple integration points into the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, including:
* Oracle Internet Directory (OID) - Password Authority can manage the passwords for accounts held in OID as well as for service accounts that authenticate against OID.
* Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) - Password Authority ensures that password management is synchronised with roles and access rules.
* Oracle WebLogic Server - Password Authority automates the run-time replacement of current passwords in connection strings/ connection pools and the management of WebLogic administrator accounts.
* Oracle Database 11g Real Application Cluster (RAC) - Password Authority makes use of the Oracle database as its secure repository for all passwords, and is capable of supporting a geographically-distributed database installation. Password Authority is also capable of maintaining and releasing Oracle Database passwords to humans and applications.
“Companies are now starting to understand the importance of employing strict standards to manage access to critical information and protect digital assets; the risks are too high to ignore,” said David Canellos, senior vice president, sales and marketing at Irdeto and Cloakware. “By integrating Cloakware Password Authority with Oracle’s Identity and Access Management Suite, customers will have a single solution to proactively address security deficiencies and reduce cost and risk in their IT infrastructure.”