IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) for e-Business is an integrated component of the IBM integrated identity management solution that can help you quickly bring users, systems, and applications online, make them productive, reduce costs, and maximize return on investment. IBM identity management provides:

• Identity lifecycle management (user self-care, enrollment, and provisioning)
• Identity control (access and privacy control, single sign-on and auditing)
• Identity federation (sharing user authentication and attribute information between trusted Web-service applications)
• Identity foundation (directory and workflow)
  

All these skills and tools help you effectively manage internal users as well as an increasing number of customers and partners through the Internet. TAM for e-Business offers points of integration with other IBM Tivoli Enterprise solutions, such as:

• Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems
• Tivoli Access Manager for Business Integration
• Tivoli Identity Manager
• Tivoli Risk Manager
• Tivoli Privacy Manager for e-business
• Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

IBM Tivoli Access Manager Products (Operating Systems and Business Integration)

TAM for e-Business shares a common set of services with other Tivoli Access Manager products— IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems (provides security for Unix and Linux systems) and IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Business Integration (provides security for IBM WebSphere MQ applications). All three products use and ship with the same set of shared services, including a central security policy manager, central credential directory, and Web Portal Manager.

A one-time implementation of these shared services supports the installation of all three products. This single implementation allows you to consolidate the administration and management of security policy across:

• WebSphere MQ queues
• Web applications/resources
• UNIX/Linux systems

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

End-user enrollment for TAM for e-Business can be provided through Identity Manager. IBM Tivoli Identity Manager is a Web-based solution that provides a unifying interface for all aspects related to end users and their interactions with a business. It helps reduce costs through centralized user management and automated provisioning, as well as helps increase productivity through automated workflow, delegated administration, and user password self service capabilities.

IBM Tivoli Risk Manager

TAM for e-Business alerts, events, and audit information can be sent to IBM Tivoli Risk Manager. Tivoli Risk Manager correlates and prioritizes the vast number of security events generated across applications, operating systems, and network devices to provide an overall view of the security architecture. Tivoli Risk Manager also provides out-of-the-box extensive reporting capabilities as well as different notifications mechanisms (email, pager, etc).

IBM Tivoli Privacy Manager

Enterprises involved in incorporating, monitoring, and enforcing privacy policy into their business processes can benefit from the fact that IBM Tivoli Privacy Manager for e-Business works with TAM for e-Business. Integration between these products enables Tivoli Privacy Manager to incorporate business-purpose specifications and end-user choices into access requests secured by Tivoli Access Manager.

Ultimately, the combination of these two products helps ensure that sensitive data is being accessed for approved purposes. Auditing capabilities help meet some requirements being set in place by privacy legislation.

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is a solution for managing identity and access to resources beyond the enterprise that belong to a third party or separate domain. This solution also allows you to maintain security and provide identity related services in a Web Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment using secure, standards-based, application-to-application inter-enterprise communications.

Tivoli Federated Identity Manager helps to enable transaction security using SOA and Web services technology, providing added security protection, identity management capabilities, and built-in compliance tools. The software extends IBM's IT Service Management portfolio, which enables you to reduce technology complexity through automation and process integration.

If you need a standardized federation solution supporting SAML, Liberty Alliance, and WS-Federation, as well as Web Services and SOA security management capabilities, you can upgrade TAM for e-Business software to Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.