| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Web Portal Manager | Eases management through web GUI. Command line interfaces and script accommodation also available for those knowledgeable in UNIX or Linux. | Enhanced Ease of Use |
| Fast Track Policy Modules | Pre-written, customizable, best-practice policies | Quickly ramp up to effective security |
| Centralized administration of security policy | Enables the integrated management of consistent security policies across an enterprise. Optionally integrates with other IBM Tivoli management solutions. | Increases integrity of systems and improves the efficiency of administration |
| Enhanced application security | Protects applications and databases. Provides controlled access to switch user ID functions. | Prevents deliberate or accidental loss of application data, tampering with log files, and prevents unauthorized assumption of application administrative IDs |
| Multi-Branch Management | Enables layered security policy definition. | More efficient and effective policy management. |
| Login Policy Enforcement | Tracks the UNIX login process and applies policies that prevent unauthorized access such as the number of permitted failed login attempts before the user is locked out | Helps eliminate many user-access problems, while still using the standard UNIX authentication mechanisms |
| Extended auditing capabilities | Configurable audit events can track sensitive access attempts, provide security-related information on user activity, and can send audit events to the Tivoli Common Audit & Reporting Service (CARS). | Provides verification of access policy through secure logging of security events, and flexible reporting of audit information. |
| Multi-threaded architecture | Streamlines performance | Application speed and user experience are not impeded by access control decision speed |
| Password policy | Ability to define password strength requirements | Improves application security. Helps prevent password theft. |
Business benefits
A simple-to-use, powerful security system, Tivoli® Access Manager for Operating Systems securely locks down business-critical applications, files and operating platforms to help prevent unauthorized access. This security capability blocks both insiders and outsiders from unauthorized access to and use of valuable customer, employee and business partner data.
Additionally, Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems audits application and platform activity. This capability provides the assurance your customers, employees and partners expect-and the rigorous auditing the government and senior management requires.
Employees-not hackers or viruses-present the chief threat to IT security. Internal users account for the majority of cyber-theft. They know where the most valuable data resides and the times at which it is most vulnerable.
Super-users of Linux and Unix systems are traditionally exempt from access control restrictions and are often able to modify audit logs to hide their activities. Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems addresses both of these common compliance audit issues by providing controlled super-user access and tamper-proof auditing; providing more secure and complaint server systems for running mission-critical applications.
Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems, Version 6.0 - Highlights
Defends against the top security threat that enterprises face: malicious or fraudulent behavior by internal users and employees
Combines full-fledged intrusion prevention-host-based firewall, application and platform protection, user tracking and controls-with robust auditing and compliance checking
Provides Persistent Universal Auditing to document compliance with government regulations, corporate policy and other security mandates
Provides best-practice security policy templates to minimize implementation effort and time
Delivers mainframe-class security and auditing in a lightweight, easy-to-use product
Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems erects a secure perimeter around sensitive resources to restrict access regardless of a user's administrative status. It establishes controls that even extend to administrative ("root") users. Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems tracks users throughout their use of system resources and applies a comprehensive security policy to protect applications. Unlike competitive offerings, Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems provides these controls without adding the administrative burden of changing your business processes. In addition, to help you comply with your audit requirements, Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems provides Persistent Universal Auditing-a secure and flexible auditing tool that maintains secure 24x7 audit logs on users, programs, files, ports, resources and systems.
Integration with Tivoli Identity Manager extends UNIX and Linux user management by allowing UNIX and Linux identities, passwords and permissions to be managed along with those of other platforms and directories. These platforms and directories include Microsoft Windows, IBM AS/400® and the IBM OS/390® Security Server (RACF®).
An enterprise-wide view of security can be added through Tivoli Risk Manager. Tivoli Risk Manager can monitor Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems audit events and can then correlate and evaluate these audit events alongside those of other enterprise security events. Consequently, Tivoli Risk Manager can generate a comprehensive view of your enterprise's entire security picture-from perimeter devices such as firewalls to core security services such as Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems.
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