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Securent Announces Support for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

(Oct 16, 2007)-- Securent announced support for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, helping organizations secure sensitive communications with ease and precision. Office Communications Server 2007 uses the power of software to help streamline communications between people and organizations, regardless of medium, platform, device, or location to fundamentally change the way organizations communicate and collaborate. Securent EMS delivers policy-based, fine-grained control and visibility to Office Communications Server 2007 while empowering security teams, enterprise compliance teams, LoB administrators, and end users to control which parties are allowed to communicate with each other over the rich modes of communication enabled by Office Communications Server 2007.

Securent Entitlement Management Solution (EMS) allows organizations that implement Office Communications Server 2007 to manage, enforce, and audit access control policies that dictate how various constituents within the enterprise connect and communicate. Securent's out-of-the-box solution is logically separated from Office Communications Server 2007 allowing security administrators and risk managers to define and manage security policies separately from the normal operational management of Office Communications Server 2007.

Administrators that deploy Securent EMS with Office Communications Server 2007 have fine-grained authorization and centralized visibility that help meet enterprises' security, compliance, and risk management mandates. This is further enhanced through Securent EMS' existing compatibilities with other Microsoft technologies including .NET, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft SQL Server. Taken together, these capabilities ensure that the robust policy-based security layer provided by Securent EMS is consistently and comprehensively applied across Office Communications Server 2007 and the rest of the organization's IT infrastructure.

Compliance and information security requirements demand that organizations manage and enforce user entitlements consistently across a wide variety of applications and services throughout the entire enterprise, rather than within individual silos as is commonly done today. Securent EMS achieves this by providing customers with rich policy-driven access controls that deliver precise granularity, robust performance, and streamlined auditing. The company's approach to fine-grained entitlement management significantly reduces the time and cost of deploying new platforms such as Office Communications Server 2007 by providing global policy management across platforms, applications and networks throughout the organization.

Securent EMS enables organizations to secure sensitive applications and data with ease and precision by using a proven XACML-based solution to create, enforce, review, and audit fine-grained access policies across heterogeneous application and IT environments distributed throughout the enterprise. Securent EMS provides centralized management and visibility over entitlements for application services and databases and is a key infrastructure service in an effective service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployment. The results include improved security and compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Basel Capital Accord (Basel II), and the National Association of Securities Dealers Rule 2711 (NASD 2711).

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