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ALDON ELEVATES SECURITY STANDARDS FOR ALM WITH BUILT-IN IDENTITY ACCESS MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY

Embedded IAM Brings Fine-Grained Access Control and Security to Application Lifecycle Management

Emeryville, Calif.- May 15, 2007 - Aldon, the leading provider of process-driven application change management solutions, today announced it has added secure Identity Access Management (IAM) technology to its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution, providing IT organizations with authentication, role-based access control, audit trails and policy management across all application development efforts.  The powerful IAM delivers the security organizations need without sacrificing agility when addressing key business processes and compliance initiatives.

As technology innovation continues to advance, so does the risk for exposed data, trade secrets, and unauthorized access to sensitive systems.  IT analyst firms are all pointing to inefficient processes, ineffective access controls and a lack of collaboration between business and IT teams as the leading cause of risk, which makes IAM technology more necessary than ever.  For application development, Aldon’s built-in IAM technology provides organizations with the security infrastructure they need to reduce risk, offering a fine-grained control over the data and applications users are permitted to access and the level of those privileges.

“Whether organizations are addressing compliance initiatives, managing outsourced development teams or supervising in-house staff, controlling who has access to what has never been more critical from both a legal and operational standpoint,” said Modi Ronen, director of sales engineering, Aldon. “Our goal is to give organizations technology that makes access control automated, cost-effective, and systematically reduces risk exposure.”

Multiple Role-Based Access Control

The IAM technology developed by Aldon provides organizations with a framework to better manage enterprise-level roles and separation of duties.  Unique to Aldon’s IAM is that managers can easily define one user under multiple roles, with different access privileges for each.  Managers are then able to determine the roles and responsibilities in the development process and set hierarchies of roles, by group, department, individual, or through inherited roles, greatly improving overall security.

Audit Trails to Meet Compliance Regulations with Ease

Integral to Aldon’s IAM platform is a directory that lists and organizes users and applications in a hierarchical structure and serves as a storehouse for identity attributes, including security rights and authentication information. Aldon’s powerful metadata registry serves as the foundation for activity logs that track all historical events for regulatory compliance. The system not only authenticates access roles, but provides managers reports of who has accessed the system, when, how and to what degree.

Secure User Authentication

Another important benefit of the Aldon IAM technology is secure user authentication. The solution first verifies identity when a user attempts to log in to any Aldon product, and then activates the specific product actions that user is authorized to perform.  The fine-grained authentication and authorization process spans multiple applications and platforms, freeing developers from the cumbersome task of creating multiple logins, passwords and authentication.

Resource Access Management to Restrict Users to Customized, Relevant Views

Aldon’s IAM technology also enables IT managers to create and administer roles and groups at the target system level. The capability to explicitly assign privileges to a user outside of a role or group structure is crucial to IAM. This allows users to manage IT resources in two ways: 1.) administering and reporting on IT resources and the users who have access to them, and 2.) providing to end users a restricted view containing only the resources they have access to – they won’t see other resources on the network.

The Aldon IAM technology is available immediately. For more information about the complete solution, please visit www.aldon.com/pdf/aldon_iam.pdf.

The Aldon Suite

The Aldon ALM solution provides IT business process automation, requirements management, software configuration management, multiple version management and software deployment to companies worldwide. Built to address complex multi-platform environments as well as the needs of geographically distributed IT organizations, the Aldon Suite gives companies a defined, repeatable, measurable and traceable process for every stage of their application development.  The integrated suite is comprised of Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Aldon Deployment Manager and Aldon Community Manager.

About Aldon

Aldon is the leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions, bringing the benefits of process-driven application change management to IT, and accelerating the delivery of mission-critical business applications. Aldon ALM solutions support today's agile organizations by enabling IT teams to greatly improve their products' time to market, reduce business disruptions, achieve regulatory compliance and increase return on investment. More than 1,300 companies, including 70 of the Fortune 100, rely on Aldon ALM solutions for enterprise software configuration and change management for their IT business processes. Established in 1979, Aldon is headquartered in Emeryville, California and maintains 14 offices worldwide serving more than 40 countries.