Bell Helicopter Chooses Axiomatics for Entitlement Management

Posted by Mc Parry on May 5th, 2009 No Comments Printer-Friendly

KISTA, Sweden, May 5 – Axiomatics, the leading independent XACML authorization solution supplier, has been awarded a contract to deliver a new integrated authorization policy system for Bell Helicopter. Axiomatics Policy Server will be integrated into Bell Helicopter’s existing infrastructure to provide centralized authorization services for applications and services.

Bell Jet Rangers Helicopter which have been readied by AMRDEC for Iraqi Air force (US.Army)

To enable compliance with its strict regulation policy, Bell Helicopter has recently chosen Axiomatics to provide a new authorization and entitlement management system. The system will enable Bell Helicopter to manage and enforce enterprise-wide policies in their product life-cycle management applications.

Information security is imperative for a company such as Bell Helicopter that is on the forefront of military and commercial aircraft design. Ensuring availability of essential information to employees and other stakeholders on a relevant need-to-know basis, while preventing unauthorized access to business-critical information, is an unconditional requirement.

“Bell Helicopter has strict security requirements, and many of these are managed by our access control policies,” says Mr Glenn Isbell, PLM Program Manager at Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. “We wanted to be independent of vendor-specific and proprietary technology which is why we made the decision early on to base our solution on the XACML standard,” he continues. “After conducting a thorough evaluation of the solutions on the market, we found that for our needs Axiomatics had the most comprehensive XACML product available. Furthermore, their engagement and commitment to the standard is proof to us that we will receive full support for this technology in the future.”

Axiomatics Policy Server is the only XACML product on the market that fully implements the XACML 2.0 and the 3.0 draft. This product enables centralized management of complete lifecycles for enterprise access control policies. Consistent implementation of authorization policies in multiple applications and platforms can thus be managed and enforced from a single point.

“We are very pleased to have been selected as the preferred supplier by Bell Helicopter, particularly considering the thorough evaluations they carried out,” says Babak Sadighi, CEO at Axiomatics. “Once again, this verifies that XACML is gaining market acceptance, and that the customers recognize the value of products that fully implement the standard.”

Axiomatics is the leading provider of fine- grained authorization and entitlement management solutions based on the XACML standard. Our products are used to manage, enforce and audit the complete life cycle of corporate access control policies. (Axiomatics)