GetAccess creates a unified interface to security information, and manages single sign-on, passwords, certificates, tokens and smart cards. Once authenticated, users are then presented with a personalized navigation menu based on the user's role and business rules. The system is designed for central monitoring and auditing, but it can also delegate control to departmental, branch or help-desk administrators. The idea of access-control portals specific to individual users according to their clearances is a powerful one, and basing that definition on business rules is, I believe, currently unique in the market. If you're serious about your Web security, this product is worth checking out.
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Mark Gibbs is an consultant, author, journalist, and columnist. He writes two weekly columns, Backspin and Gearhead , in Network World and authors frequent features for a number of publications. Gibbs is also a principal of Change Council and affiliated with a number of high tech ventures including Netratings, Inc. , the most advanced Web audience measurement firm.