Organizations are typically trying to accomplish the following objectives for data security:

• Protect data by providing access on a need-to-know basis, particularly in collaborative environments where multiple types of users need access to different types of data.
• Enable security in data centers, where data volumes are growing at explosive rates and privileged users may pose particular risks for unintended access.
• Manage the risk of data disclosure across the organization, through a practical, life-cycle-based approach to data security.

IBM security solutions help protect data and applications by providing capabilities such as auditable federated access controls, fine-grained control of user privileges, and centralized management of data entitlements and encryption keys. These capabilities are essential for organizations to protect data.

IBM security solutions can help organizations:

• Improve business agility with secure collaboration and data sharing
• Reduce cost and complexity of data disclosure and privacy compliance
• Minimize risk by providing data access on a need-to-know basis

IBM security solutions provide key capabilities required in the identity and access management infrastructure to protect access to critical data across the organization, including the following solutions:

• IBM Tivoli Data and Application Security protects data and applications via auditable access controls, fine-grained entitlements and encryption key management.
• IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager is a powerful data and application entitlement management solution that equips organizations with centralized security policy management and distributed policy enforcement.
• IBM Guardium provides real-time database activity monitoring to detect unauthorized, suspicious or anomalous activities.
• IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System provides intrusion protection at all layers of the network, helping organizations stay ahead of Internet threats.

Solution Brief – “IBM Tivoli Access Management for data protection” (PDF, 382KB)

Analyst white paper “Secure By Design: Building Identity-based Security into Today’s Information Systems”

White paper “IBM Tivoli access management delivers market-leading foundational capabilities for strengthening identity, data, and application security”

White paper “Managing data and application security risks cost-effectively”

Buyer’s guide “Realize business value by choosing the right identity and access assurance solution” – sets the buying vision and defines in-depth buying criteria checklists (PDF, 295KB)

Additional Offers:
Analyst reports and awards:

• Gartner MarketScope for Enterprise Single Sign-On
• IDC Worldwide Identity and Access Management 2009-2013 Forecast Update and 2008 Vendor Shares
• IBM named Best Security Company for 2010 by SC Magazine

Data sheets:

• Tivoli Security Policy Manager (238KB)
• IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System (1.58MB)