GMV and CA Technologies sign an collaboration agreement in the identity-management and access security area

GMV and CA Technologies have just signed a collaboration agreement under which they become business partners. GMV will distribute and implement in Spain theidentity-management and access security software of CA Technologies. This alliance blends CA Technologies’s cutting edge identity-management and access range with the experience of GMV, a national benchmark in the security and availability sector, backed up by all technical certificates.

This collaboration agreement centers on CA Technologies’s business security portfolio, and especially on the cloud identity federation solutions and management of social identity, which enable organizations to offer users unassisted and controlled access to applications and data from other organizations.

GMV, which becomes an Advanced Partner of CA Technologies, boasts a 15+-year track record in information security services and solutions, with a wealth of experience in the field of corporate infrastructures under the user centric approach, constantly being developed to meet each new need of cybersecurity, cloud computing and mobility.

CA Technologies’s identity management and access solutions enable clients to embark on new online business initiatives with total security and connect securely with users by means of web, cloud and, increasingly, mobile applications, protecting systems, data and applications from internal threats, external attacks and unauthorized access.

In the words of Javier Zubieta, GMV’s Business Development Manager for Information Security, “this alliance reinforces the company’s ongoing strategy of offering groundbreaking solutions to meet our clients’ needs, such as privileged user management or harmonization of corporate and private worlds by means of social identity. CA Technologies is a worldwide benchmark, offering a host of synergies with a multinational company like ours”.

Ricardo Usaola, Manager of Alliances and New Markets of CA Technologies Iberia, puts it like this: “security has become an enabler of new forms of technology-supported business like cloud computing, mobile devices and social networking sites. Joining forces with a renowned security expert in Spain like GMV will enable us to help Spanish firms open new business outlets with secure connections for clients, employees, partners and suppliers, reducing the threat of internal and external attacks and compliance risk."