Integrated Security for IT Infrastructures

The use of digital signatures in corporate IT environments renders a two-fold benefit: it enhances security and saves money. When used to secure workflows, digital signatures are especially valuable, because they can tremendously speed up existing business processes and enable the creation of completely new business processes. For this reason, the integration of digital signatures into Novell's next generation Identity Manager (IDM 3.5) is an interesting issue. IDM 3.5 features an improved workflow engine with powerful functions including a digital signature interface.

Yet, it lacks a native digital signature capability. Instead the Novell documentation recommends the use of a component named xml/signer provided by cryptovision to close this gap.