Bangalore: – NetIQ announced today that readers of SearchSecurity.com recognized NetIQ by awarding Novell Identity Manager with a gold medal in the Identity & Access category of the 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards. Identity Manager received high scores from readers for its ease of use, ability to integrate with user directories and other information databases, capacity to scale, as well as its service and support.

“As recent current events demonstrate, the failure to appropriately control end user access to just the resources they need can lead to rogue activity, data breaches, failed regulatory audits and more, undermining both trust in IT security teams and corporate reputations,” said Ron Hardy, vice president of Products and Marketing at NetIQ. “We are thrilled that customers are deriving value from our solutions and recognize the excellence we strive for in our product development, service and support.”

To determine the winners of the 2011 SearchSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards program, TechTarget asked more than 1,500 readers—largely composed of information security executives and managers—to assess and rate products they deploy within their organizations from a listing of more than 360 products. Based on their responses, the judging panel selected Gold, Silver, and Bronze award winners in each of the 14 security product categories.

Identity Manager provides customers with an intelligent identity framework that provides policy-driven control of access to applications from the data center to the cloud. With automated, centralized identity management, businesses can dramatically reduce administrative time and cost typically associated with identity management, improving both security and productivity without requiring additional IT resources. Identity Manager delivers the following capabilities that customers can tailor based on their individual requirements:

Ease of Use: Identity Manager makes it easy for business managers and departments to manage their own users’ access needs without relying on network administrators. Out-of-the-box drivers integrate with widely used enterprise systems and built-in capabilities extend access management policies to SaaS applications.

Scalability: Identity Manager extends provisioning and auditing control to the entire enterprise, including internal, virtual and cloud-deployed applications to support up to millions of users, with tight integration with Microsoft SharePoint, SAP ERP systems, Salesforce.com, Google Apps and more.

Service and Support: In addition to top-notch training and consulting services, NetIQ delivers innovative remote consulting services through Consultant on Demand to ensure customers take advantage of their full Identity Manager investment following installation. Identity Manager is backed by award-winning support such as 24×7 phone and chat, as well as no-cost, self-service options.

For more information on the Identity and Access category of the SearchSecurity.com 2011 Readers Choice Awards, please visit: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/magazineContent/Best-identity-and-access-management-products-2011