Novell Cloud Security Service

In September, 2010 the Novell company announced the beginning of sales of Novell Cloud Security Service. Novell WorkloadIQ™ implemented within the concept, a product provides to users or service providers of cloud computing an opportunity to provide user account control, secure access and observance of regulatory requirements during the work in an external computing cloud. Novell Cloud Security Service is an important part more full range of services of Novell on management of identification data and security which allow the enterprises to create the approved infrastructure for management of identification data through borders of the physical, virtual and cloud systems. Novell — the only supplier offering this built-in function by means of which the organizations can manage difficult security requirements and observance of rules by means of cost-efficient and simple products in use of set.

Novell Cloud Security Service allows to extend easily and quickly infrastructure of management of identification data of the enterprise to any public cloud. All changes which clients make to accounts of the users or divisions are immediately replicated in a cloud, guaranteeing a unified environment of identification data and security of the enterprise irrespective of where there really are calculations.

Service providers of cloud computing which offer the software, the platform or infrastructure as services aim to differentiate themselves in the market, and more and more particularly important additional security measures become. Novell Cloud Security Service helps suppliers of cloud services to ensure the guaranteed safety and observance of regulatory requirements for the corporate clients. This first and only multi-user solution for management of identification data and access which provides functions of access control to resources in an external cloud, authentication, authorization and observance of regulatory requirements during the work with it.

Novell Cloud Security Service undergoes trial operation in several places worldwide. This announcement of Novell is aimed more than at 200 service providers IaaS and 1300 providers SaaS and PaaS which will be able to use this technology protected by 60 patents.

Novell Cloud Security Service is placed or in a cloud of provider, or in corporate network of the customer. The user can directly enter or through the system of identification of the enterprise. The service at first verifies an account and if everything is all right, generates the identity certificate in the format demanded by the supplier of SaaS. Now the user is authenticated in service SaaS. In the application the connectors which are a part of service intercept actions of the user at the deep level of pages and provide a control flow for observance of policy of authorization and authentication.