Universal Policy Administrator 3.0

October 15, 2020

Features and Benefits:

We are pleased to announce the release of (an industry-first technology) Micro Focus NetIQ Universal Policy Administrator (UPA). With UPA, customers can now control policies from a single modern console. For organizations that have multiple platforms in their ecosystem, Linux, Mac, AD, and non-Windows Domain machines, they can pull all of them into the UPA and place them under centralized policy management.

Feature 1:

Centralized Policy Management

• Create and manage all policies from a single modern console.

Extend to cloud-based resources

• Extend on-premises policy management capabilities to cloud-based resources (virtual machines, apps, databases, etc.) to leverage a unified policy management framework.

Policy Consolidation

• Improve ROI by centrally managing existing investments by extending your privilege, delegation, and policy management toolsets to all managed resources.

Policy Standardization

• Utilize policy translation without the need to leverage complex or non-intuitive scripting method

Reporting and Auditing

• Run policy setting reports, capture audit history and conflict analysis details to ensure administrators are complying with industry regulations as well as tracking who is making changes to security policies throughout the enterprise

Compliance Requirements

• Reduce risk by implementing consistent security controls and auditing capabilities across your entire environment

See also: Universal Policy Administrator Web Site

White Paper: Achieving Security in a Cloud-Based World: The Path to Universal Policy Management