Cognizance Corporation to Demo New Identity and Access Management Solution At COMDEX Fall 2002

Cognizance Corporation, a leading developer, marketer and integrator of managed identity solutions, today announced the pre-release of Cognizance Identity and Access Management Platform (Cognizance IAM) , a first complete integrative identity management product. Cognizance IAM enables enterprises to improve security and ease network administration by providing combined management of users, policies and applications within single powerful framework.

Cognizance IAM lowers administration costs and improves network and Web security by dramatically simplifying policy and enterprise application management. Cognizance IAM solutions help businesses get the right resources to the right people anytime, anywhere by simplifying the management of user identities and integrating those identities across enterprise applications. To deliver maximum benefits Cognizance IAM Suite includes an extendable identity management framework and built-in security applications and services. The release version of Cognizance IAMF will include the most popular applications such as Network logon, Single Sign-on, VPN and Web access.

Other important features of Cognizance IAM include multifactor authentication, role based access control, support for biometrics and smart cards, built-in user self-management tool and support for multiple enterprise repositories.

"Many organizations are discovering that separate management and deployment of enterprise security applications are frustrating for users and costly to administer," said Yuri Khidekel, Cognizance's Chief Technology Officer. "IT managers have been asking for a product that is specifically designed to offer integrated platform that will support policy management based on consolidated user identity, and Identity Services Framework is our response. This product provides a complete and scalable identity management solution that fully integrates with all the enterprise resources including support for Active Directory, E-directory and iPlanet."