Novell has launched its Compliance Management Platform, a combination of existing identity management and security-event management products with additional reporting and analysis tools.
The combined platform will give IT managers a source for real-time monitoring of all identity repositories and allow for compliance report generation on the fly, according to Novell.
The platform includes Identity Manager 3.6 Identity Management products integrated with Novell's SEM product, Sentinel 6.1Security Information Management products.
It comes with several predefined policy templates to aid in setting it and includes Sentinel's software connectors for centralising security-event information from hundreds of sources.