NetIQ is a product line within the CyberRes line of business at Micro Focus, which includes solutions focused on cybersecurity, including ArcSight, Fortify, Voltage, and NetIQ.
NetIQ was previously based in
Houston, Texas, with products that provide
identity and access management, security and data center management. Its flagship offerings are
NetIQ Identity Manager and
NetIQ Access Manager
NetIQ is a product line within the CyberRes line of business at Micro Focus, which includes solutions focused on cybersecurity, including ArcSight, Fortify, Voltage, and NetIQ.
NetIQ was previously based in Houston, Texas, with products that pr ...
. Other past software titles include AppManager, Secure Configuration Manager, and Sentinel.
Micro Focus International
Micro Focus International plc is a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provides software and consultancy. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is ...
has owned NetIQ since 2014, when MFI acquired
The Attachmate Group
The Attachmate Group, Inc. was a privately held software holding company based in Houston, Texas in the United States. The major companies held by the group were Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell, and SUSE.
Attachmate was owned by Wizard Parent LL ...
, which acquired NetIQ in 2006,
six years after the latter acquired Mission Critical Software.
History
NetIQ was founded by Ching-fa Hwang, Her-daw Che, Hon Wong, Ken Prayoon Cheng and Tom Kemp in September 1995; ;
AppManager was introduced 1996.
Their February 2000 merger with Mission Critical Software
[ widened the company's focus to include systems management as well as performance.]The Attachmate Group
The Attachmate Group, Inc. was a privately held software holding company based in Houston, Texas in the United States. The major companies held by the group were Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell, and SUSE.
Attachmate was owned by Wizard Parent LL ...
was merged into Micro Focus International
Micro Focus International plc is a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provides software and consultancy. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is ...
.
Products and services
; NetIQ Access Manager: a Web access management product that provides single sign-on
Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems.
True single sign-on allows the user to log in once and access services without re-enterin ...
for web application
A web application (or web app) is application software that is accessed using a web browser. Web applications are delivered on the World Wide Web to users with an active network connection.
History
In earlier computing models like client-serve ...
s.
; NetIQ Identity Manager: NetIQ's implementation of Identity Management software. It utilizes XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. ...
-based configuration files to determine the product's implemented functions.
Privilege Access Management
* Change Guardian
* Privileged Account Manager
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