CASE-IN-POINT: Novell OS enables employee access to applications with single ID, password

摘要

Employees normally juggle multiple user IDs and passwords to access applications, which results in security risks, as well as wasted time and money. As a company that continues to grow through acquisition, South Portland, Maine-based Fairchild Semiconductor knew this problem all too well. Identity-management procedures at Fairchild's 26 facilities were manual and labor-intensive, with few security controls. Administrators spent too many work hours addressing numerous help-desk tickets from users who couldn't remember all their IDs and passwords. Fairchild. seeking to consolidate and automate its user directory, turned to Novell, whose Netware operating system (OS) already managed Fairchild's file and print services.