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IBM Tivoli security products and solutions
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IBM Tivoli software
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By using a combination of security products from IBM, you may be able to manage your entire enterprise in a coordinated, repeatable, auditable way, which may help to increase productivity and decrease the total cost of management. The suite of IBM Tivoli Security products is designed to help you run your business processes on the platforms of your choice while managing security across your enterprise helping ease your business transition to the on demand world.

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Tivoli zSecure suite   Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager   Tivoli family of security products


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The Tivoli zSecure suite of security management products
Tivoli's security management offerings can enhance the administration of mainframe security management with innovative audit, alert and monitoring capabilities for z/OS Resource Access Control Facility (RACF). Tivoli also extends z/OS security through security policy enforcement technology. The Tivoli zSecure suite provides a solution to help meet your mainframe security administration, audit and compliance challenges. Below is a short description of each of the modular components of the Tivoli zSecure suite.

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Security Audit Products:
 IBM Tivoli zSecure Audit: Compliance and audit solution that enables you to automatically analyze and report on security events and detect security exposures.

 IBM Tivoli zSecure Alert: Real-time mainframe threat monitoring allowing you to monitor intruders and identify mis-configurations that could hamper your compliance efforts.

 IBM Tivoli zSecure Command Verifier: Policy enforcement solution that enforces compliance to company and regulatory policies by preventing erroneous commands.

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Security Administration Products:
 IBM Tivoli zSecure Admin
This security software enables more efficient and effective RACF administration, using significantly less resources..

 IBM Tivoli zSecure Visual
IBM Tivoli zSecure Visual reduces the need for scarce, RACF-trained expertise through a Microsoft Windows–based GUI for RACF administration.

 IBM Tivoli zSecure CICS® Toolkit
The zSecure CICS Toolkit allows you to perform mainframe administrative tasks from a CICS environment, freeing up native-RACF resources

 IBM Tivoli zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM
IBM Tivoli zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM enhances user management and provisioning for RACF in the VM environment by providing simple, one-step actions and customizable reports for mainframe administration and audit functions.

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 The Tivoli Compliance Insight suite of compliance management software

Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager is an enterprise-wide solution, covering numerous security devices and platforms, but it also has unique depth on the mainframe. Through Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager Enabler for z/OS, mainframe events and alerts can be managed centrally. In addition, Tivoli's compliance management software provides regulation-specific compliance templates and targeted reports as well as a compliance dashboard geared specifically towards helping jumpstart a customer's compliance activities related to SOX, HIPAA, GLBA and Basel II and others.

Please note: The customer is responsible for ensuring compliance with legal requirements. It is the customer's sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may affect the customer's business and any actions the customer may have to take to comply with such laws. IBM does not provide legal advice or represent or warrant that its services or products will ensure that the customer is in compliance with any law.

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Tivoli family of security products

 Tivoli Identity Manager for z/OS (TIM) 
TIM for z/OS is designed to provide policy-based automation to manage user identities and their access to heterogeneous information resources throughout the user lifecycle, while supporting key policy compliance and audit readiness requirements.

 Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (TFIM) 
With support for z/OS, Tivoli Federated Identity Manager will help ensure secure transactions across mainframe and distributed environments using SOA and Web services technology.

 Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) for e-business 
TAM with z/OS support enables security management that leverages mainframe server performance and security while encompassing distributed and legacy applications through the support of Linux for System z.

 z/OS platform support also includes administration and authorization APIs in Java and the Access Manager plug-in for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS allowing container-level security for z/OS servlets.

 IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) for Operating Systems 
Designed to protect individual application and operating system resources by addressing system vulnerabilities related to UNIX/Linux super user or root accounts.

 IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) for Business Integration 
TAM can enable organizations to securely transmit messages through WebSphere MQ queues, targeting specific individuals for delivery of messages as well as helping to protect which individuals can place messages on queues and retrieve messages from queues.

 IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator 
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator is an open-architecture, metadirectory solution for synchronizing and exchanging information realtime between applications or directory sources.

 IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM) 
TIM can help you manage the lifecycle of identity information that is distributed throughout various registries and databases within your organization. With support for over seventy (70) different types of endpoints, Tivoli Identity Manager can be configured to access, analyze, and correct user and group information throughout your environment across your enterprise.

 IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager 
Tivoli Security Compliance Manager makes use of a simple yet powerful architecture to allow organizations to define their security policy, implement "collectors" to determine if settings on their systems conform to this policy, and also track an organization's overall compliance to their security policy.

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