CA is unveiling the next phase of its identity and access management strategy with new releases designed to strengthen certification and compliance reporting for enterprises.

The company June 9 announced plans for three products -- CA Identity Manager, CA Access Control and CA Security Compliance Manager -- as part of the CA Identity Access Manager release 12. The three products join others announced late last year by CA as part of an effort to expand its identity access product line.

CA’s move follows similar investments by other identity and access vendors. IBM recently released a new version of its federated identity management software, while officials with Sun Microsystems earlier this year said they were planning a number of releases across the company's identity management portfolio during the next several months.

According to a recent report by Forrester Research, the IAM (identity and access management) market will grow to $12.3 billion by 2014, with provisioning accounting for nearly two-thirds of all IAM revenues.

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