Software helps business entities collaborate securely.
Press Release Summary:
Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager provides loosely coupled model for managing identity and access to resources that span companies or security domains. Organizations can share identity and policy data about users and services instead of replicating identities and security policies locally. Federated model simplifies administration and enables companies to extend identity and access management to 3rd-party users and services.
Original Press Release:
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Helps Business Entities to Collaborate Securely
At a glance
Companies that choose to collaborate in identity-based business processes may benefit from the ability of IBM Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager (FIM) to help:
Simplify integration between companies and their partners' Web sites, including simplified session management
Improve business compliance by helping to reduce security exposure
Improve end-user experience through Single Sign On (SSO)
Expand business reach of service providers creating revenue generating opportunities
Simplify administration of security in cross-enterprise business processes by delivering "security as services"
Deliver policy-based integrated security management for SOA Web Services
Support for open standards and specifications including Liberty, SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Security and WS-Trust
Overview
Federated identity management provides a simple, loosely-coupled model for managing identity and access to resources that span companies or security domains. Rather than replicate identity and security administration at both companies, federated identity management provides a simple model for managing identities and providing them with access to information and services in a trusted fashion.
For companies deploying SOA and Web Services, federated identity management provides policy-based integrated security management for federated Web Services. The foundation of federated identity management is trust, integrity, and privacy of data.
Through this foundation of trust, integrity, and privacy, organizations can share identity and policy data about users and services versus replication identities and security policies locally. The sharing of trusted identities and policies is the key to delivering a richer experience for users navigating between federation sites. Trust enables companies to loosely couple their disparate identity management systems.
A federated model simplifies administration and enables companies to extend identity and access management to third-party users and third-party services
Planned availability dates
May 6, 2005 (electronic software delivery)
May 27, 2005 (media and documentation)
