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Integrating CA Identity Governance with CA Identity Manager

CA Identity Manager is an identity lifecycle management product that enables you to manage user identities and govern what they can access based on their role.

CA Identity Governance is an identity lifecycle management product that enables you to develop, maintain, and analyze role models. CA Identity Governance also provides centralized identity compliance policy controls and automates processes associated with meeting compliance demands.

When you integrate CA Identity Manager and 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 the role model as the business evolves

The following graphic details the architecture when you integrate CA Identity Governance and CA Identity Manager: