CA Identity Manager Wins Global Excellence in Identity Management Award From Info Security Products Guide

ISLANDIA, N.Y., June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA today announced that CA Identity Manager has won the Global Excellence in Identity Management Customer Trust 2006 Award from Info Security Products Guide. More than 18,000 end-users and prospective customers worldwide were invited to select the products they found to be most trustworthy for protecting their digital resources.

CA Identity Manager is a highly scalable and adaptable solution for automating the management of user identities to manage risk, enhance regulatory compliance and reduce administrative costs. It unifies identity management across the enterprise to streamline and simplify administration of internal and external users and their entitlements. This helps ensure that IT systems are under control and that business processes are conducted in accordance with enterprise policies.

"Info Security Products Guide's recognition of CA Identity Manager is particularly gratifying because it is based on the votes of thousands of customers," said Bill Bartow, senior vice president of Identity and Access Management (IAM) at CA. "These customers, who include IT professionals at some of the largest organizations in the world, rely on CA Identity Manager to effectively and cost efficiently manage their diverse user populations, both internal and external, in order to safeguard their critical digital assets."

CA Identity Manager is an integrated component of CA's comprehensive IAM solutions, which enable customers to securely manage the broadest range of IT resources--including mainframe, distributed, Internet and mobile infrastructures. CA's IAM solutions are available as a full suite, or individually, enabling customers to address their most pressing security challenges and then incrementally build out additional functionality as appropriate.

"Each year, we poll end users worldwide to recognize and honor product excellence in all areas of information security," said Rick Justice, chief technology editor at Info Security Products Guide. "CA Identity Manager clearly stands above the rest, and we applaud CA on this achievement."

For more information, please visit http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/identitymanagement/IdentityManager.html .

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Info Security Products Guide, published by Silicon Valley Communications, plays a vital role in keeping end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. It is written expressly for those who are adamant on staying informed of security threats and the preventive measure they can take. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including tomorrow's technology today, best deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent security decisions. The Info Security Products Guide Awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. To learn more, visit http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/ and stay secured.

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