IBM ships update to Tivoli Identity Manager software
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IBM on Wednesday released the 5.0 version of its Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) software, in what the company called the product&#39;s first major update in more than 2.5 years.TIM 5.0 is used to manage user access rights and password information. It automates new account setups, offers users the ability to reset their passwords without an assist from a help-desk employee, and monitors for unauthorized changes.A major focus of the update is speeding up deployment. The product features a range of guidelines, wizards, and templates that can cut deployment times in half, claimed Joe Anthony, program director of identity management for Tivoli.However, administrators who desire the most fine-grained control over user access will still have it, according to Anthony. &quot;We did not take those capabilities away from the administrator. If in a given area they need more capabilities, it is very easy to gain access to those capabilities,&quot; he said.Matt Hickmott of Watson SCS, an identity- and access-management consultancy based in Tampa, Fla., was a beta tester on the 5.0 release. &quot;I think the new functionality is very good,&quot; he said.IBM&#39;s claim about reduced deployment time rings true, according to Hickmott. &quot;It&#39;s probably about half. A lot of the customizations you used to do are already built in,&quot; he said.Hickmott did single out one area of weakness, noting that the product&#39;s self-service user interface resides on the TIM 5.0 server. &quot;Ideally, you&#39;d have that outside TIM so people don&#39;t have access,&quot; he said.Pricing for TIM 5.0 varies depending on the number of users managed or on a per-processor basis, with prices starting at about $10,000 per company installation, a company spokesman said.
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IBM Corp. and four partners on Wednesday announced what they call a "major breakthrough" in identity management designed to help business and government agencies protect assets, including IT systems and physical facilities, from unauthorized users.
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SUBANG JAYA: IBM (www.ibm.com) has released the beta version of its latest enterprise-grade integration software to Malaysian customers.
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IBM and Cisco Systems have unveiled product updates that will tie technology from the two companies more closely together in an effort to secure customer networks from worms and viruses.
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NOVEMBER 24, 2004  - IBM yesterday announced that 100 independent software vendors have signed on to use software from its Workplace initiative, a new client computing model that gives employees a single way to access, share and manage
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(InfoWorld) - IBM plans to release the final version of DB2 Viper 2, a major upgrade to its DB2 9 database software, before the end of this year, a company spokesman said this week. DB2 Viper 2 went into open beta last week and is the first major refresh of IBM's DB2 9 database since itsÂ release in JulyÂ last year. The beta program is open to DB2 customers willing to test the software and provide feedback to IBM to help it hone the product, said Bernie Spang, director of IBM data servers. IBM highlighted some of the new features in Viper 2 in a posting about the beta release last week. Among the features are new workload management tools that should give better query performance from data warehouses, and better handling of XML data within the database, IBM said. The update will also make it easier to manage new security features introduced with the first version of DB2 9, Spang said. The first version introduced label-based access control, which allows customers to set access priveliges for individual columns of data depending on what role people have in a company. DB2 Viper 2 will make it simpler to manage and administer those role-based privileges, Spang said. He wouldn't go into detail but said the improvements "do things in software that save the administrator from having to deal with it." IBM will be looking for Viper 2 to strengthen its position against database rivals Oracle and Microsoft, which both grew their 2006 database revenue more quickly than IBM, according to recent figures from Gartner. Oracle grew its database business by 14.9 percent last year to give it 47.1 percent of the market, Gartner said. Microsoft grew its business by 28 percent for a 17.4 percent share, while IBM grew by 8.8 percent to give it 21.1 percent of the market, Gartner said. The overall market in 2006 was worth $15.2 billion, up 14.2 percent from 2005, Gartner said. The research company counts revenue from new licenses, updates, subscriptions and hosting, technical support, and maintenance. It does not include professional services or hardware revenue.
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IBM Rational Software Corp. today released updated desktop development tools designed to eliminate common problems from distributed development efforts.
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IBM plans to acquire Consul Risk Management to deepen the auditing and compliance functionality of IBM's Tivoli systems management software.
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The announcement this week by Yahoo that it is planning to test a beta version of its Yahoo ID that supports the OpenID 2.0 protocol has thrown a bright spotlight on the quickly growing online identity-management system.
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IBM is warning customers of a flaw in its Tivoli Storage Manager backup and recovery software that could allow criminals to gain access to stored data.
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A new security update is available for Mac OS X users running the program that's part of iLife 08.
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IBM has unveiled two new Rational development tools and and a Tivoli applications management offering. They can be used separately or jointly to boost the quality of a service-oriented architecture.
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(InfoWorld) - Symantec Corp. Wednesday released a beta of its new enterprise security product, formerly code-named Hamlet, that melds technology from several of the company's acquisitions over the last few years. The product, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, replaces the previous enterprise version, Symantec AntiVirus. It's a public beta, and the final version will be released around September. Symantec has decided not to charge more for the new product. "We believe the level of protection you should get for your money should be higher," said Mathew Lodge, director of product marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The EndPoint Protection suite is the culmination of a Symantec buying spree that included acquisitions of Sygate, Whole Security and Veritas. "We've spent a lot of money buying other companies," Lodge said. "We've integrated that technology into the new release." Endpoint Protection includes technology that looks at how applications behave, a way to detect if a program is doing something suspicious. For example, some malicious software programs try to download other programs from the Internet, which often is a bad sign. The suite includes other security features such as antivirus and antispyware capabilities, a firewall and host and network-based intrusion prevention technology. Another new feature is application control, which allows administrators to control what programs users can run on their machines. Also new is Symantec Network Access Control 11.0, an optional module that can be incorporated into Endpoint Protection. The feature determines whether or not to allow a mobile device to connect to the network depending on if it is a security risk, such as if the device doesnât have up-to-date patches. The module accommodates both Cisco's and Microsoft's protocols for network access control, Lodge said. It can also simply authenticate and check devices when they connect to a network and make a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) request, Lodge said. Symantec also announced a new program called Storage United, which is designed to help companies better organize their data storage even if they are using different OSes and storage hardware platforms. The program revolves around three themes: next-generation data protection, storage management and information management, said Kevin Bailey, senior product marketing manager. Prominent in the strategy will be use of NetBackup, a storage platform that came from Symantec's acquisition of Veritas, Bailey said. REFERENCES: Symantec slips, but closes in on AV product delivery, May 2, 2007Symantec mobile security client delayed, May 30, 2007
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Microsoft officials said today that they have revised their Sender ID protocol to work better with an existing standard and that they have narrowed their patent application to make sure it doesn't cover other proposals.
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On Wednesday, Symantec released a beta of its new enterprise security product, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, formerly codenamed Hamlet. The beta marks the company&#39;s most significant update to its enterprise security software in years.
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Automated tool contrast policies with behaviour IBM has finally finished digesting Consul InSight, the risk management software that it bought last December, and has re-released it in expanded form as Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager.â¦
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IBM Wednesday released new SMB tools on its emerging technology Web site to help customers deal with compliance issues as well as enable Business Partners to build solutions on WebSphere Express software.