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What Is RSA ClearTrust?
With more than twenty years of experience as recognized leaders and innovators in the field of network security technology, RSA Security offers a web access management solution that provides a greater range of powerful features than any competitive solution on the market. These features add significant levels of security and productivity, while reducing the risks and costs associated with making enterprise resources web-accessible.
The differentiators of RSA ClearTrustŪ technology, notable on their own, can also result in important business differentiators for you.
What Is RSA ClearTrust?
The current release, RSA ClearTrust 5.5 offers a number of customer benefits, including:
- Reduced administration, development and help desk costs
- Enhanced security with authentication, access management and auditing
- Revenue generation through secure, online business
- Ability to better meet compliance requirements
- Enhanced user experience through single sign-on
What Are the Major Features in RSA ClearTrust 5.5?
RSA ClearTrust 5.5 has a number of compelling features, including:
- Automated user management
- Transactional Smart Rules technology
- Web services support
- Robust performance and scalability
- Extended Microsoft® platform support
- Single Sign-On to Microsoft® and non-Microsoft environments
- Application integration-based user properties in HTTP headers
What Third-Party Products Does RSA ClearTrust 5.5 Support?
RSA ClearTrust 5.5 works with a multitude of third-party products, including web servers, proxy servers, databases, applications servers, enterprise applications, and more.
How Does RSA ClearTrust 5.5 Help Personalize Web Content?
RSA ClearTrust 5.5 provides centralized support for the management of user properties and header variables. These user properties (e.g., a user's SSN or account balance) can be used by an application for a variety of functions from authentication to personalization. MyYahoo, for example, leverages a user property to recognize your name and personalize content according to your profile. RSA ClearTrust 5.5 allows an administrator to easily determine which user properties to export to a particular web server according the business needs and security policy of the organization.
Does RSA ClearTrust 5.5 Support SAML? Does a Customer Require a Toolkit?
Yes. RSA ClearTrust 5.5 supports SAML 1,0 and 1.1 through RSA Federated Identity Manager.
Which Data Stores Are Supported by RSA ClearTrust 5.5?
RSA ClearTrust supports a wide range of leading data stores, including:
- Microsoft® Active Directory® Windows® 2000
- Sun® ONE Directory 5.1
- Oracle 8.1.7
- Oracle 9i
- Sybase 12.5
- Microsoft® SQL Server 2000
What API Improvements Were Made in RSA ClearTrust 5.5?
RSA ClearTrust 5.5 offers the industry's most robust set of APIs in this space. However, RSA has added even more APIs in this release, including:
- Transactional Smart Rule Capabilities Called External User Property APIs
- New Runtime Web Services APIs
What Security Improvements Were Made in RSA ClearTrust 5.5?
RSA ClearTrust 5.5 offers a number of security enhancements that leverage RSA Security's 20+ years experience in the security industry. Some of the following changes were made:
- 3DES support for encrypting configuration files
- Changes to the Admin GUI to prevent session hijacking
What Improvements Have Been Made to Administration GUI?
RSA Security has made a few changes to the Admin GUI to support new functionality and improve security. The following changes have been made:
- New user search within group functionality
- Multi-value attribute support for user properties
- Per-application definition for user properties
- Transactional Smart Rule support
- New session handling to prevent session hijacking
Is There an RSA ClearTrust Pilot Program, and What Is Included in the Program?
The RSA ClearTrust Pilot Program has proven to be very effective in helping customers to understand the requirements of implementing RSA ClearTrust and also to gain a quick win through a low-cost pilot deployment. The program includes:
- Up to 4 days of onsite consulting by trained RSA ClearTrust professionals
- 30 days of customer support
- 60-day software license
 ADVANCED USER MANAGEMENT MODULE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
The RSA ClearTrust Advanced User Management Module (AUMM) extends RSA ClearTrust's user management functionality to provide end-user self-service, workflow and password reset.
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