The decades-old rivalry between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. is heating up again. This time, the companies are jockeying for position in a market that rapidly is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for winning and keeping customers: identity management.
Novell, one of the established players in identity management, this week plans to unveil two additions to its already-large product portfolio in the space, Nsure Audit and a SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) extension for iChain. The auditing piece addresses what customers say has been a glaring weakness in Novell's offerings—that is, the ability to securely log and audit all user log-in activity on a system.
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