Tivoli Access Manager for e-business

IBM® Tivoli® Access Manager for e-business is a versatile solution for authentication and authorization problems.

It manages growth and complexity, controls management costs, and addresses the difficulty of executing security policies across a wide range of Web and application resources.

• Defines and manages centralized authentication, access, and audit policy for a broad range of business initiatives.
• Establishes new audit and reporting service which collects audit data from multiple enforcement points as well as from other platforms and security applications.
• Enables flexible SSO to Web-based applications that can span multiple sites or domains with a range of SSO options, to eliminate help-desk calls and other security problems associated with multiple passwords.
• Leverages common security policy model with the Tivoli Access Manager family of products to extend support to other resources.
• 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.
• Provides a modular authorization architecture that separates security code from application code.
• Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows.

What's New in IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business V6.1?

IBM Tivoli® Access Manager for e-business V6.1, an authentication and authorization hub for Web applications, not only centralizes security management, but it can make it easy and more cost effective to deploy secure applications. Tivoli Access Manager for e-business extends the ability to secure a heterogeneous application infrastructure while adding performance, scalability, and integration improvements.

Key features:

• Enhanced Microsoft® .NET infrastructure support providing single sign-on between Windows® desktops and back-end applications using Kerberos ticket.
• Addresses performance and scalability by supporting non-standard IP load balancers and configurable administrative domains that support multiple WebSEAL (Tivoli Access Manager for e-business' reverse proxy) instances.
• New integration with browser-based antifraud support is offered by the addition of an HTTP-only cookie attribute to WebSEAL and extending Tivoli Access Manager certificate support to use Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).
• Improvements in session management services and additional integration with IBM software
  If you are seeking either a standardized federation solution supporting SAML, Liberty, WS-Federation, or a Web services security management capability, you can upgrade from Tivoli Access Manager for e-business to Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.

IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business is an award winning, policy-based access control solution for e-business and enterprise applications.Tivoli Access Manager for e-business lets organizations control both wired and wireless access to applications and data, and provides Single Sign-On (SSO) for authorized users. It integrates with e-business applications to deliver a secure personalized e-business experience for authorized users.