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CA GovernanceMinder Technology

CA GovernanceMinder is based on advanced pattern recognition technology. CA GovernanceMinder provides a comprehensive set of highly sophisticated solutions to the challenges that organizations face when implementing and maintaining role-based management.

Core Technology

An important innovation of CA GovernanceMinder lies in the observation that role-based management revolves around patterns of privileges and access. As such, even in an organization where privileges are not currently managed by roles, the actual assignment of privileges roughly follows role-based patterns. Similarly, deviations and exceptions must be detectable when they do not follow the same patterns.

CA GovernanceMinder's technology is designed to uncover the patterns that are hidden in existing sets of privileges. These patterns are not trivial, because the number of excessive privileges can sometimes reach 50 percent of the total number of privileges. Many users can also be under-privileged or wrongly-privileged. Furthermore, the problem is complex due to the sheer number of user accounts typical of large enterprises. CA GovernanceMinder combines a set of pattern recognition techniques and other advanced algorithms and applies them to the special challenges of roles management.

Other Technology Components

In addition to this core technology, CA has developed substantial additional technology that is required to deploy a full solution:

• CA GovernanceMinder products use sophisticated algorithms that help the user make intelligent decisions, while hiding most of the complexity of the problems they address.
• CA GovernanceMinder products use sophisticated data structures and algorithms to reduce the CPU and memory load to the point where a CA GovernanceMinder project can be fully implemented on a single system.
• CA GovernanceMinder architecture is designed to allow easy mapping of privileges data from virtually any ACL-based platform/application, including most operating systems, databases, directories, applications, and identity management and provisioning systems.
• CA GovernanceMinder's user-friendly interface facilitates importing privilege data from a common or proprietary operating environment and exporting processed data and role definitions to this or another target operating environment.