Identity management strategy echoes IBM, Novell plays Hot on the heels of its competitors, Computer Associates (CA) this week will unveil the integration of six eTrust products into a unified identity and access management suite.CA on Monday will launch the first component of its eTrust Identity and Access Management Suite, a new version of eTrust Admin, at the Computer Security Institute (CSI) Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. The company also plans to release updates for five other products at the CA World 2004 show in May 2004, according to Bilhar Mann, vice president of product management at CA.The new eTrust Admin is designed to make it easier for customers to integrate custom functions written in the Java or C programming languages into the provisioning workflow, Mann said. “[Customers] often ask us to run various types of business processes before provisioning takes place. We’re going to provide them with the ability to customize our solutions to their requirements,” Mann said. Future releases of CA’s eTrust Access Control, Audit, Directory, Single Sign-On and Web Access Control products will bring the various Suite components into line, implementing a common user interface across the various products and standardizing the product version numbering, according to a company spokesman.CA’s decision to integrate its identity and access management products follows similar efforts by the likes of IBM and Novell, said Dan Blum, senior vice president and research director at Burton Group.While companies like Novell, CA, and IBM can simply tie existing products closer together, smaller identity management companies are trying to respond to demands for integration by partnering with other companies that sell complementary technology to their own, he said. CA will charge a per server monthly fee of $2,800 to license eTrust Admin in addition to a monthly per user fee of $1, Mann said. Security