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Cassidian and Ilex sign cyber-security cooperation agreement concerning identity and information systems access management
July 2011 by Marc Jacob
Cassidian and Ilex, a specialist Identity and Access
Management (IAM) publisher, have signed a cooperation agreement
concerning management of identities and secure access to corporate
information systems. This agreement means that Cassidian’s customers will
be offered an enhanced user lifecycle management solution for the
company’s information system. The aim is to answer the following questions:
Who has access to what? Who gave access to whom? Who does what?
Identity and access management has become a key issue in corporate
information systems security, particularly in a context in which companies
have increasingly modular organisational needs, both functionally and
geographically.
For Cassidian, a major player in the cyber-security field and well-known actor
in Public Key Infrastructure, the complete and proven identity management and
access control platform from Ilex, consisting of the Meibo and Sign&go
products, represents an innovative technological building block that works in
synergy with its own range.
Faced with the growing demand for new products and solutions to counter
cyber-threats, Cassidian and the EADS Innovation Works network of joint
research centres pooled their resources within the Cyber Security Center. A
base of experts is in place in the United Kingdom, France and Germany to
meet the needs of sensitive IT infrastructure operators (governments, military
organisations, multinationals, strategic infrastructure operators) and to
provide a structure offering all the expertise and the solutions necessary for
detecting and countering cyber-threats.
