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CA Identity Governance Integration

CA Identity Governance is an identity lifecycle management product that enables you to quickly and accurately develop, maintain, and analyze role models. It also provides centralized identity compliance policy controls and automates processes associated with meeting compliance and security demands. Using CA Identity Governance, you can do the following:

• Validate that CA Identity Manager user privileges are granted in accordance with business compliance policies
• Get suggested roles and compliance checking when creating or modifying CA Identity Manager users, roles, and accounts
• Understand what roles exist in your organization, establish a role model that fits your organization, and re-create the desired role model within CA Identity Manager
• Analyze and maintain that role model as business evolves

CA Identity Manager integrates with CA Identity Governance in two ways:

• CA Identity Governance Connector for CA Identity Manager

  A special type of connector that automatically synchronizes the privilege data between CA Identity Manager and CA Identity Governance. By using this connector, you can import data from CA Identity Manager to CA Identity Governanceor export data from CA Identity Governance to CA Identity Manager.

• Smart Provisioning

  When CA Identity Manager integrates with CA Identity Governance, you can configure additional functionality that allows you to use role and compliance information, which is available in a role model, to support day-to-day identity management operations. Changes made in CA Identity Manager dynamically update the role model in CA Identity Governance.

Note: For more information about CA Identity Governance integration with CA Identity Manager, see the CA Identity Manager Integration Guide found in the CA Identity Governance bookshelf.