
IBM offers application security software to secure applications by authenticating and authorising only valid users and protecting Web applications from hackers by identifying exploitable vulnerabilities.
Businesses are being asked to deliver more sophisticated and complex services to customers, employees and partners. But the applications that meet these demands must also be adaptable to constantly changing market demands. Increasingly the choice is to use Web-based applications for these new services. Businesses must focus on the security of these applications in order to protect themselves from potential exposure of confidential information and damage to the systems. Threats that are more than inconveniences, but can put the entire business at risk. Protection from these threats must be taken into account holistically – through the lifecycle of applications – from development to deployment to ongoing management and end-of-life consideration.
IBM’s application security software allows companies to pre-emptively and actively protect applications from external and internal threats. IBM provides:
- Preemptive network security
- Secure process and application lifecycle security
- Unified security policy management
- Access management that protects vital customer information
Featured application security products
IBM Tivoli Data & Application security
For fine grained application entitlements, centralized security policy management and centralized encryption key lifecycle management.
IBM Tivoli Security Information and Event Manager
Provides visibility into an organization’s security compliance posture through automated, enterprise-wide user activity monitoring. It includes dashboard views and reporting to help measure security policy compliance and respond to auditors’ requests.
IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager
Delivers next generation, standards-based security management to help reduce complexity and cost of securing access to applications and web services in heterogeneous IT and SOA environments.
IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
Provides user-centric, federated single sign-on to securely share information between trusted partners and simplify application integration using open standards for SOA and Web services deployments across distributed portal and mainframe environments.
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business
Serves as a hub for authentication and authorization for Web and other applications, centralizes access management and makes it easy and cost effective to deploy secure applications.
IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems
Protects individual application and operating system resources by addressing system vulnerabilities surrounding UNIX/Linux super user or root accounts.
IBM Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager
Provides visibility into an organization’s security compliance posture through automated, enterprise-wide user activity monitoring. It includes dashboard views and reporting to help measure security policy compliance and respond to auditors’ requests.
Related application security offerings
Rational Web application security and compliance
Protect data and meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements.
Manage enterprise application data throughout the information lifecycle.

