Cloud identity and access management
Modernize identity security with a trusted foundation
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Identity and access management (IAM)
Identity security is becoming more complex as organizations manage people, apps, services, machines, and AI agents across hybrid environments. Establish trusted identity data and automate identity processes without adding infrastructure complexity.
OpenText™ NetIQ™ Identity Foundation delivers cloud-based IAM services that establish trusted identity information and help govern and secure access across your environment. Use integrated identity services to automate lifecycle management, govern access, strengthen authentication, and provide identity intelligence. Modernize IAM while supporting hybrid environments and existing identity investments.
Why NetIQ Identity Foundation?
Go beyond periodic identity governance. Connect trusted identity data with event-driven lifecycle management, governance, and access controls to automate action, strengthen least privilege, and support security across hybrid environments.
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coverage of attribute management to ensure identity integrity
Keep your identity data pristine by defining which repositories are authoritative. - One
out of bound change is enough to trigger a response
OpenText offers the most aggressive posture in maintaining integrity through its ability to detect and respond to out-of-policy identity changes. - Six
tightly integrated services used to deliver IAM
The platform functions as a single set of synergistic services, providing more intelligence and advanced capabilities.
Use cases
Address critical business challenges by transforming identity management from a cost center to strategic advantage. Optimize operations, satisfy insurance requirements, implement zero trust, and mitigate threats.
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Reduce infrastructure and administrative overhead with cloud-delivered IAM while maintaining connectivity to hybrid and existing environments.
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Automate identity controls, governance, and reporting that allow you to demonstrate how access policies are being applied.
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Use trusted identity context, governance, and adaptive controls to continuously determine appropriate access.
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Manage access as identities expand beyond employees and contractors to services, machines, workloads, and emerging AI agents.
Key features
NetIQ Identity Foundation connects identity data to lifecycle management, governance, access, and intelligence across the enterprise. These integrated capabilities help you manage an identity ecosystem of people, apps, services, and non-human identities.
Event-based identity lifecycle management
Detects identity changes and triggers policy-based responses across identity stores. Keeps identity data current through synchronization and enforce authoritative data across connected systems.
Comprehensive identity connectivity
Centralizes lifecycle management so access changes are accurate. Centralized identity management depends on automation that reaches across the enterprise, including cloud and edge identity stores.
Identity catalog
Collects and normalizes identity and entitlement information into a centralized catalog, providing trusted context for governance, access decisions, and risk analysis.
Single sign-on
Streamlines authentication using standards-based SSO protocols, SAML v2 and OIDC, as well as a browser plug-in that offers full coverage, providing a consistent sign-on experience across applications.
Advanced authentication
Strengthens identity verification with multifactor and passwordless authentication while adapting assurance to balance security with user experience.
Identity intelligence
Monitors identity events and anomalies across your environment with alerts, dashboards, and event tracking that improve visibility and provide evidence of identity activity.
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Services
Accelerate digital transformation with guidance from certified experts.
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Modernize your information management with certified experts
Professional Services
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Turn support into your strategic advantage
Support Services
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Meet business goals with expert guidance, managed services, and more
Customer Success Services
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Free up your internal teams with expert IT service management
Managed Services
Partners
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Application Marketplace
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Industry-leading organizations that enhance OpenText products and solutions
Strategic Partners
Training
OpenText Learning Services offers comprehensive enablement and learning programs to accelerate knowledge and skills.
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Meet the demands of all types of users for effective adoption
Learning Services
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Get expertise as needed
Flexible Credits
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Unlimited access to training with personalized tiers to fit your needs
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Communities
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NetIQ Identity Foundation resources
OpenText NetIQ Identity Foundation
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Although add-ons will be released in the future, NetIQ Identity Foundation is specifically designed to cover all your foundational identity and access management needs on its own.
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The repository data model has changed, so it’s more than an in-place upgrade. Since the required steps depend on various configuration factors, Identity Manager customers will need an individualized assessment of their environment.
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NetIQ Identity Foundation takes a new approach to how it segments identity governance and administration features. As a result, its additional governance features offer a superset of capabilities over Identity Manager.
