IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAM eB) is a versatile solution for authentication and authorization problems. Primarily focused on Web applications, Access Manager implementations vary from simple Single Sign-on to more complex security infrastructure deployments.
Access Manager for e-business can help you manage growth and complexity, control escalating management costs, and address the difficulties of implementing security policies across a wide range of Web and application resources. It works by centrally managing security and audit policy for enforcement points that can be placed as a proxy in front of Web applications, or through authorization and authentication plug-ins direct into a Web server or application-server environment. You can use Access Manager to control wired and wireless access to applications and data, to help bar unauthorized users. For authorized users, Access Manager integrates with Web applications and servers to deliver a secured and unified business experience. It helps you secure access to business-critical applications and data spread across the extended enterprise, allowing highly available, scalable transactions with partners, customers, suppliers, and employees.
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On helps you:
- Automate sign-on and eliminate users' need to manage passwords
- Enhance security with automatic password management
- Extend audit and reporting capabilities to include user sign-on data
- Generate a quick payback and high return on investment (ROI) with a solution that is quick and simple to deploy and reduces help desk costs
Tivoli Access Manager for e-business helps:
- Define and manage a centralized authentication, access, and audit policy for a broad range of business initiatives such as employee, customer and partner portals, CRM systems, e-procurement, cross-company single sign-on (SSO) projects, and outsourcing projects.
- Establish a new audit and reporting service which collects audit data from multiple enforcement points as well as from other platforms and security applications. A central point for reporting on security events and sample reports are included
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On Provisioning Adapter extends the benefits generated by TAM E-SSO - - through the automation of the user credential distribution process. TAM E-SSO Provisioning Adapter, working with Tivoli Identity Manager, can pre-populate end users' TAM E-SSO credential stores so that users never have to touch, or even know, their user names and passwords.
- Enable a flexible SSO to Web-based applications that can span multiple sites or domains with a range of SSO options, to help eliminate help-desk calls and other security problems associated with multiple passwords. By integrating with other SSO providers (such as Kerberos from a Microsoft domain logon, and client/server SSO solutions) Access Manager goes beyond 'reduced sign-on' to help implement a single authentication for the user across all system interactions. For standardized cross-domain authentication (federation) using SAML, Liberty ID/FF, and WS-Federation, Tivoli Access Manager for e-business customers can also upgrade to Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.
- Leverage a common security policy model with the Tivoli Access Manager family of products to extend support to other resources, such as WebSphere® MQ applications, and UNIX and Linux system resources.
- Provide a base for federation: Companies that choose to collaborate in identity-based business processes may benefit from IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager's ability to help simplify integration between companies and their partners' Web sites. Federated SSO solutions, such as Tivoli Federated Identity Manager add standardized cross-domain SSO (SAML, Liberty, WS-Federation) to a security system. However these typically need first-point-of-contact and session management to already be in place; Access Manager fills that role (and Access Manager for e-business customers can upgrade to Tivoli Federated Identity Manager if federation becomes a requirement in the future).
- Manage and secure your business environments from your existing hardware (mainframe, PCs, servers) and operating system platforms including Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX.
∗ Please visit IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business (TAM eB) site for more information.
