Press Release
FISCHER INTERNATIONAL AND IMPRIVATA PARTNER TO INTEGRATE
USER PROVISIONING AND ENTERPRISE SINGLE SIGN-ON SOLUTIONS
Integrated End-to-End Access Solution Ensures Ease of Use
and Management While Speeding Time-to-Productivity
WASHINGTON, DC, (June 6, 2006) At the Gartner
12th Annual IT Security Summit 2006, Imprivata®, Inc., the
enterprise authentication and access management appliance company,
and Fischer International, thought leaders in Identity Management,
announced their partnership to integrate the Imprivata OneSign™
enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) appliance with Fischer Identity
Suite’s standards-based provisioning, approval and compliance
solution. This partnership will enable customers to benefit
from an easy-to-use, easy-to-manage integrated provisioning
and ESSO solution that helps companies ensure their employees
are productive quickly while realizing improved security and
compliance.
Business processes including hiring, termination, temporary
project work and customer self-service all involve providing,
changing or revoking access across one, ten or scores of systems.
Combining Imprivata OneSign ESSO, an easy, smart and affordable
ESSO appliance that enables organizations to quickly and effectively
automate password management and user authentication policies,
with Fischer International’s user provisioning solution,
which provides secure, real-time provisioning for all users
across all systems in the enterprise by adapting quickly to
business processes and IT infrastructure, gives customers a
complete and secure end-to-end enterprise user access solution.
“Companies need their employees to get online quickly
to ensure productivity from day one of employment, and they
are seeking an integrated user provisioning and enterprise single
sign-on solution to make this possible,” said Omar Hussain,
president and CEO of Imprivata. “We’re finding that,
above all, companies want an access solution that is easy to
use for employees and easy to manage for administrators. By
partnering with Fischer, the integrated solution offers organizations
the ability to increase overall security while improving employee
efficiency and simplifying user management.”
Simplifying the Provisioning Process Through Automated Application
Profiles and “Drag & Drop” Workflows
Instead of custom scripting, OneSign ESSO uses the OneSign Application
Profile Generator™ (APG) to “learn” the login
behaviors of the target applications and generate the correct
XML profile that is securely distributed to SSO users. As new
applications are added or existing applications changed, the
APG is ready to make changes in minutes without any interruption
or downtime. In addition, by utilizing 100% drag & drop
business policy and workflow GUIs that eliminate the time and
errors commonly found with scripting and programming, Fischer
Provisioning also eliminates scripting and programming which
dramatically speeds and simplifies workflow creation. Together,
the integrated solution enables administrators to get their
business users up and running quickly, providing access to resources
and applications they need to be productive immediately.
Improving Productivity of Business Users from Day One
For many companies, ESSO and provisioning are central to automating
and managing an employee’s use and access of applications
and resources and often integrated with various forms of two-factor
authentication to secure user access. Combining initial account
provisioning with the creation and continuous management of
credentials provides a comprehensive user access solution that
allows employees to utilize the applications they need, securely,
on day one.
“There are many synergies between Imprivata and Fischer
that make this partnership worthwhile for customers,”
said Reneé Bacherman, President and CEO of Fischer International.
“Both companies focus on building technologies that simplify
management for IT while being easy for business users. This
common approach encourages greater use of these access solutions,
leading to greater overall security, regulatory compliance and
ensuring immediate productivity for our customers.”
With this combined Imprivata-Fischer solution, new users can
simply log-on to their network and instantly access all of their
Windows, Web, TE or legacy ESSO-enabled applications. All OneSign
user accounts and application privileges are automatically created
and set strong application-specific passwords that fortify security
without requiring users to remember numerous passwords. In addition,
the integrated solution supports OneSign’s Shared Workstation
functionality including user switching, roaming sessions, single-key
and time-based lockouts to further improve employee productivity
and cut down on helpdesk costs.
The Imprivata-Fischer integration is based on OneSign ESSO’s
incorporation of the standards-based Service Provisioning Markup
Language (SPML) interface. This provisioning integration with
Fischer is one in a series of strategic partnerships enabling
Imprivata to realize its vision of delivering enterprise customers
with end-to-end user access solutions that are easy-to-use and
easy-to-manage.
About Imprivata
Based in Lexington, Mass., Imprivata develops enterprise authentication
and access management solutions. The company is privately held
with venture funding from Polaris Venture Partners, Highland
Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners. Imprivata OneSign
is a security management platform that is changing the way midrange
businesses gain access to their networks and applications. Imprivata’s
OneSign product lines are packaged as an affordable, easy-to-implement
and maintain appliance and are distributed through an established
network of value-added resellers. For more information visit
www.imprivata.com.
About Fischer International
Fischer International was founded in 1982 by Addison Fischer,
a security visionary whose many accomplishments are recognized
globally. Headquartered in Naples, Florida, Fischer International
has a distinguished history of innovation and thought leadership
in the security industry. Fischer continues this tradition by
being the first to deliver the next-generation of Identity Management.
The solution, Fischer Identity Suite, is built upon DataForum™,
Fischer’s standards-based provisioning, approval, and
compliance engine. By design, the engine is an integration technology
as Fischer recognized that integration is the lifeblood of enterprise
Identity Management. Additionally, compliance is organically
incorporated throughout because compliance must be part of the
DNA in any Identity Management solution. Like all Fischer solutions,
the Fischer Identity Suite will stand the test of time. For
additional information, please visit www.FischerInternational.com.
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Media Contacts:
Dennis McDermott
Chief Marketing Officer
Fischer International
(239) 643-1500
dmd@fischerinternational.com
Molly Galetto
Imprivata, Inc.
(781) 674-2736
mgaletto@imprivata.com |
