Aldon, a leading provider of application change management solutions, has announced it has added secure identity access management (IAM) technology to its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution.

The addition will provide IT organizations with authentication, role-based access control, audit trails, and policy management across all application development efforts. The powerful IAM delivers the security that organizations need without sacrificing agility when addressing key business processes and compliance initiatives, the company says.

As technology innovation continues to advance, so does the risk for exposed data, trade secrets, and unauthorized access to sensitive systems. IT analyst firms are all pointing to inefficient processes, ineffective access controls, and a lack of collaboration between business and IT teams as the leading cause of risk, which makes IAM technology more necessary than ever. For application development, Aldon's built-in IAM technology provides organizations with the security infrastructure they need to reduce risk, offering a fine-grained control over the data and applications users are permitted to access and the level of those privileges.

"Whether organizations are addressing compliance initiatives, managing outsourced development teams, or supervising in-house staff, controlling who has access to what has never been more critical from both a legal and operational standpoint," said Modi Ronen, director of sales engineering at Aldon. "Our goal is to give organizations technology that makes access control automated, cost-effective, and systematically reduces risk exposure."

Multiple-Role-Based Access Control

Aldon's IAM technology provides organizations with a framework to better manage enterprise-level roles and separations of duties. Unique to Aldon's IAM is that managers can easily define one user under multiple roles with different access privileges for each. Managers are then able to determine the roles and responsibilities in the development process and set hierarchies of roles, by group, department, individual, or through inherited role, greatly improving overall security.

Audit Trails to Meet Compliance Regulations

Integral to Aldon's IAM platform is a directory that lists and organizes users and applications in a hierarchical structure and serves as a storehouse for identity attributes, including security rights and authentication information. Aldon's powerful metadata registry serves as the foundation for activity logs that track all historical events for regulatory compliance. The system not only authenticates access roles but provides managers with reports of who has accessed the system, when, how and to what degree.

Secure User Authentication

Another important benefit of the Aldon IAM technology, the company says, is secure user authentication. The solution first verifies identity when a user attempts to log in to any Aldon product, and then activates the specific product actions that a user is authorized to perform. The fine-grained authentication and authorization process spans multiple applications and platforms, freeing developers from the cumbersome task of creating multiple logins, passwords, and authentication.

Resource Access Management

Aldon's IAM technology also enables IT managers to create and administer roles and groups at the target system level, according to the company. The capability to explicitly assign privileges to a user outside of a role or group structure is crucial to IAM. This allows users to manage IT resources in two ways: 1) Administering and reporting on IT resources and the users who have access to them, and 2) Providing to users a restricted view containing only the resources they have access to and not other resources on the network.

The Aldon IAM technology is available immediately. For more information about the complete solution, please visit Aldon.

The Aldon Suite

The Aldon ALM solution provides IT business process automation, requirements management, software configuration management, multiple-version management, and software deployment to companies worldwide. Built to address complex multiplatform environments, as well as the needs of geographically distributed IT organizations, the Aldon Suite gives companies a defined, repeatable, measurable, and traceable process for every stage of their application development. The integrated suite is comprised of Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Aldon Deployment Manager, and Aldon Community Manager.

About Aldon

Aldon is a leading provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, bringing the benefits of process-driven application change management to IT and accelerating the delivery of mission-critical business applications. Aldon ALM solutions support today's agile organizations by enabling IT teams to greatly improve their products' time to market, reduce business disruptions, achieve regulatory compliance, and increase return on investment, according to the company. More than 1,300 companies, including 70 of the Fortune 100, rely on Aldon ALM solutions for enterprise software configuration and change management for their IT business processes. Established in 1979, Aldon is headquartered in Emeryville, California, and maintains 14 offices worldwide serving more than 40 countries.