Security management solutionsWhite paper
Increase user productivity and security by integrating identity
management and enterprise single sign-on solutions.
April 2006Increase user productivity and security by integrating identity management and enterprise single sign-on solutions.2
OverviewContents Many organizations are looking for a complete identity management solution
2 Overview that includes enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) as a key component. To help ® 3 Rely on a proven enterprise single achieve this goal, IBM delivers leading software in the form of IBM Tivoli
sign-on solution Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single
4 Automate credential provisioning and Sign-On software:
deprovisioning while facilitating audits . Tivoli Identity Manager provides a secure, automated and policy-based solution to help organiza- 5 Understand how the software works tions effectively manage user accounts and passwords - from creation to termination, across both 7 Review the steps involved in legacy and e-business environments. Tivoli Identity Manager helps increase user and IT efficiency, integration lower costs and facilitate efforts related to compliance and audits. 8 Leverage an easy-to-use . Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On helps organizations advance their identity administrative console management, compliance and authentication initiatives by simplifying, extending and securing 9 Facilitate auditing with event logging enterprise single sign-on for end users. Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On and reporting capabilities also helps organizations enhance productivity by simplifying user experiences, reduce help-desk 9 Conclusion costs related to passwords and optimize security by eliminating poor password management by 10 About Tivoli software from IBM end users. 11 For more information . IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On Provisioning Adapter enables organizations to integrate both of these offerings. This adapter extends the capability of the Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On base solution by directly distributing application credentials from Tivoli Identity Manager to Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On. The integration of these two solutions eliminates the need for end users to register - or even see or know - their application credentials and initial passwords as configured and provisioned through Tivoli Identity Manager.
This white paper describes Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On Provisioning Adapter, how it integrates Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On, and the steps an organization must take to facilitate that integration. Furthermore, it describes how organizations deploy and administer the adapter.Increase user productivity and security by integrating identity management and enterprise single sign-on solutions.3
Rely on a proven enterprise single sign-on solutionHighlights The base Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On product is the market-leading ESSO solution powered by Passlogix. The Passlogix solution is licensed by more than two million users at more than 200 customer sites, Use a solution that can scale to tens of including the largest ESSO deployment in the world. The United States Postal thousands of users Service used the software to deploy single sign-on for 7,000 applications to 165,000 users in just eight months.
Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On software is designed to help organizations securely bridge:
® ®. Any form of user authentication - Microsoft Windows login, smart card, biometric, token and more.. Any enterprise application - client/server, JavaT, Web, legacy or homegrown.. Any enterprise infrastructure directory, database, network file share and so on.. Any work mode - desktop, offline, kiosk and shared workstation.
Furthermore, Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On is designed to complement IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business. The ESSO software tightly integrates to provide single sign-on to Tivoli Access Manager for e-business, which provides fine-grained authorization and entitlements to Web-based resources according to each user's role or group. Both products can share the same directory so that a user is only defined once.
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