IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business provides standards-based authentication, single sign-on, and authorization services for Web pages and Web applications. Access Manager's security services ensure that only authorized users are granted access to data, services and transactions. It provides integrated security for J2EE security implementations, as well as out-of-the-box support for many key Web vendors' portal, ERP, CRM, and other applications.
Access Manager for e-business allows a combination of architectures to be accommodated in an Access Manager-protected environment, for example:
- The highly secure, highly scalable, and highly manageable security layer approach via the WebSEAL proxy
- The WebSphere Edge Server's Caching Proxy, configured to use an Access Manager plug-in
- Web server plug-ins (for Microsoft IIS 5.0 on Windows, iPlanet 6.0 on Solaris 7, and Apache)
Access Manager allows Web application programmers to focus on business logic and to link their applications with its security infrastructure using Java standardized security calls. There is specialized support for WebSphere Application Server that enables container-based authorization rules to be managed by Access Manager, along with other, non-WebSphere objects in the protected object namespace.
Support for sending credential attributes to back-end servers makes it easier to integrate applications with Access Manager. Web Portal Manager (an administration tool offering robust, delegatable, Web-based administration) and Web e-Community Single Sign-On (offering a Master Authentication Server that provides single sign-on across domains) provide integrated policy-based security management for the extended enterprise; enabling customers, business partners, employees, suppliers, and distributors to securely access the enterprise portal resources they need to access, when they need to access them, in a trusted fashion.
There is also support for Microsoft environments, with support for Microsoft Active Directory and NTLM and Kerberos-based single sign-on; SSO to Microsoft IIS can provide access to your Tivoli Access Manager-protected applications and resources.
Tivoli Access Manager product information can be found on the (in English) Tivoli Software Web site.