The Bedford, Massachusetts-based ISV, best known for its SecureID authentication token technology, is seeking to transform itself into a broad ID and access management vendor, and has developed or acquired a variety of products under the I&AM banner. Now the challenge is to bring all products onto a common code base.
Toffer Winslow, RSA’s director of product management, said the Nexus project announced in 2003 will create a common plumbing for all our products, enabling a single, centralized administration, as against the delegated ones that prevail today.
He said that virtually all products in the I&AM space today require delegated admin, whereby subsets of policy are pushed out to individuals within the end-user community. He said the Identity Management Services, IMS, technology that the Nexus project will create will be a single code base from which to carry out admin, and will, over the next two-three years, ship with every RSA product. The first product based on the IMS platform will be out for testing by December, said Winslow, who declined to reveal further details.
