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Quest Acquires BiTKOO

BiTKOO provides solutions for fine-grained authorization and entitlement management

Dec 19, 2011 | 08:52 PM | 


News Facts:

Quest Software, Inc. announced today that it has acquired BiTKOO, a privately-held company that provides solutions for fine-grained authorization and entitlement management in enterprise IT environments. The acquisition further extends the strength of Quest' One Identity Solutions in access governance by providing easier accountability and greater transparency for enterprise, cloud, and SaaS- based scenarios through externalized authorization.

With the acquisition, BiTKOO Keystone technology will be included in Quest One Identity Solutions to specifically offer:

Fine-grained authorization using the XACML standard for applications built in-house, enabling consistent management of access to diverse applications, web services and data regardless of operating system or application framework.

Fine-grained access control for consistent, dynamic authorization across SharePoint.

Exclusive row and column level security for SQL Server without the need to write custom code.

Supporting Quote:

Nick Nikols, vice president and general manager, Identity & Access Management, Quest Software

"BiTKOO is the leader for authorization and entitlement management, which is recognized as the cutting edge in the identity and access management market. Their products are a tremendous fit for Quest One as we continue striving to simplify IAM for our customers. This investment will make Quest the first large IAM vendor to offer organizations the capability to define granular access controls for users based on user attributes, the resource and the context of the access request. It's a perfect complement to our current Quest One offerings that leverage existing investments and address current concerns, while laying the groundwork to address future needs."

Get Involved!

Tweet this: #Quest Adds Externalized Authorization to Identity and Access Management Capabilities with Latest Acquisition of BiTKOO http://bit.ly/mRRLxT Check out the Quest One Identity Solution: Single Sign-on, Provisioning,Identity Intelligence, Role Management, Multifactor Authentication, Password Management, Privileged Account Management Participate in an interactive IAM assessment: http://iam.aberdeen.com/

Supporting Resources:

Quest Software, Inc.: http://www.quest.com/ BiTKOO: http://www.bitkoo.com/ Quest' One Identity Solution: http://www.quest.com/identity-management/ Keystone: http://www.bitkoo.com/xacml.php Identity and access management: http://www.quest.com/identity%2Dmanagement/ Quest One Identity Manager: http://www.quest.com/quest%2Done%2Didentity%2Dmanager/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Quest Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Quest-Software/65026711832 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/quest-software YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/questsoftware

About Quest:

Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT)simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information about Quest solutions for administration and automation, data protection, development and optimization, identity and access management, migration and consolidation, and performance monitoring, go to www.quest.com.



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