NetIQ launches next version of access governance suite for enhanced risk-based analysis

NetIQ has announced the launch of a higher version of its access governance suite.

According to the corporate, Access Governance 6 allows organisations to higher manage employee access their IT systems and is designed specifically to assist organisations meet their increasing compliance obligations in a value-effective way.

It said that it is able to deliver access recertification, job role management, automated access request management in addition to adding enhanced risk-based analysis and scoring to traditional access request, access certification and role management capabilities to spotlight end users who, in response to their entitlements, may merit additional scrutiny or review.

Additional features include an enhanced, user configurable interface in addition to broader platform, database and web server support.

Tom Crabb, manager of product marketing at NetIQ, said: “With the movement to cloud-based applications, organisations are much more challenged to realize a degree of visibility and control over user access and entitlement creep, which impacts their ability to satisfy compliance requirements.

“AGS 6 builds on NetIQ's decades of identity lifecycle management and access governance experience and give business owners with answers to the age-old question of ‘who has access to what' with actionable intelligence required to totally protect corporate data in spite of where it resides and  maintain compliance postures on an ongoing basis globally.”