KuppingerCole Report
Executive View
By Graham Williamson

Micro Focus Access Manager

The Micro Focus Access Manager counts amongst the established and mature solutions for Web Access Management and Identity Federation. Micro Focus is continuously improving the product, leveraging new technology and remaining responsive to client requirements for an agile and comprehensive solution to their access control requirements. Micro Focus Access Manager is a solution well-suited for supporting web services authentication requirements, federated authentication environments, and agile deployment scenarios.
By Graham Williamson
gw@kuppingercole.com

Content of Figures

  1. Figure 1 Micro Focus Access Manager System Configuration

1 Introduction

As organisations increasingly seek to digitally transform themselves, their identity management and access control infrastructure is increasingly unde ...

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2 Product Description

Micro Focus International acquired the NetIQ (originally Novell) product suite in 2014. Since thenthe product has been upgraded to keep it current wit ...

Functionality

Micro Focus has made widespread upgrades to the NetIQ Access Manager offering. MFA capabilities have been extended, secure API capabil ...

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3 Strengths and Challenges

Strengths of the Access Manager product include the vendor’s long pedigree in the IAM sector and the product ispart of a suite that can be combined ...

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4 Related Research

Leadership Brief: Leveraging Identity Fabrics on your way towards cloud based IAM - 80501
Advisory Note: Future of Identity Management - 71303
Whitepaper: Digital Transformation for Business Enablement Requires a Modern Identity Fabric - 80165
Leadership Compass: Access Management and Federation – 71147
Leadership Compass: IDaaS Access Management - 79016
Whitepaper: Why Modern Enterprise IAM Must Be Rearchitected: Build Your Case for Containerized IAM and IDaaS – 80044
Executive View: Micro Focus® Data Protector – 80193
Executive View: Micro Focus Privileged Account Manager - 71314
Blog: High Assurance MFA Options for Mobile Devices Mar 09, 2020

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