CA Technologies is an Overall Leader for privilege management, says KuppingerCole

CA Technologies has been named an Overall Leader in privilege management in the recent Leadership Compass report issued by KuppingerCole, an analyst firm for identity-focused information security. CA Privileged Access Manager was evaluated for the report, which assessed solutions focused on controlling access and activity of privileged users, such as those used by an IT administrator.

“The scope of privilege management though quite broad can be summed up as ‘automating the management of who can access your most critical data and systems when, from where, at what time and for how long,’” Martin Kuppinger and Amar Singh, Principal and Senior Analysts at KuppingerCole respectively, wrote in the report. “CA Privileged Access Manager is a comprehensive, mature and overall complete solution that would function well on its own but also integrates fully with other products in the CA Technologies stack such as CA Identity Governance and CA Identity Manager.”

In the Leadership Compass: Privilege Management* report, KuppingerCole calculated leaders in four categories: innovation, market presence, product and “overall,” with overall leaders based on a combined rating of the other three categories. CA was a leader in every category, including the overall evaluation, and it received ratings of “strong positive” across product characteristics of security, integration, interoperability and usability, and for company positions of financial strength and ecosystem of regional presence and partners.

“Unmanaged privileged accounts can be exploited to access high-value systems and information, leading to some of the most damaging breaches. Additionally, growing compliance and audit demands have increased the need to control and manage the credentials and activities associated with privileged accounts,” said Vic Mankotia, VP, Security and API Management, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies. "With CA Privileged Access Manager, customers can control privileged access across hybrid IT environments and address compliance needs.”

*KuppingerCole, Leadership Compass: Privilege Management, by Martin Kuppinger and Amar Singh, December 2015