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Identity fabric

Building a product-agnostic identity fabric helps reduce the complexity of identity management

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Simplifying secure access with identity fabric

IBM® Verify provides the foundational building blocks that can enable clients to build an effective identity fabric, consisting of both IBM and existing third-party solutions.

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Benefits
Consistent user experience

Extend modern authentication mechanisms to traditional apps with no-code changes, which helps create a consistent user experience across all applications.

Simplify and collaborate

Eliminate identity silos with a single, authoritative directory.

Secure authentication

Improve security posture through real-time behavioral risk-based authentication and biometric risk assessment.

Fabric fundamentals

Eliminate identity silos
The IBM Verify Directory consolidates the directory and delivers a single source of truth, management and enforcement to unlock more intelligence, insightful use cases and threat detection, creating a successful identity fabric solution. These can help drive cost reduction and efficiency while decreasing shadow IT.
Integrate apps into modern authentication workflows
IBM Application Gateway provides no-code integrations that allow traditional applications to use advanced authentication capabilities, such as passkeys. This offers an integrated view of user flows across all applications, which helps reduce risk and improve regulatory compliance.
Enable AI-powered authentication
IBM Verify Trust provides a dynamic, adaptive security layer to any existing IAM solution. Powered by AI, Verify Trust delivers accurate and continuous risk-based access protection against the latest account takeover techniques. It combines global intelligence, user behavioral biometrics, authentication results, network data, account history and a wide range of device risk detection capabilities.
Proactive protection for privileged accounts
You trust your privileged users with elevated access to critical systems, data and functions. But their advanced entitlements need to be vetted, monitored and analyzed to protect your resources from cybersecurity threats and credential abuse. Research has found that as much as 40% of insider cyberattacks involved privileged users.
Take the next step

Schedule a call with IBM Security® experts to discuss identity fabric solutions.

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