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IBM tops security software report

By Amelia Kwok | 23 September 2008

A new report has rated IBM as the leading vendor worldwide in identity and access management security software in 2007.

The findings from an analyst firm also ranked the company as the overall revenue leader for the second consecutive year in 2007, with revenues increasing six per cent from 2006.

The report states that the total worldwide revenue for identity and access management grew to more than US$3.1 billion in 2007; the analyst firm predicts that revenues will reach US$5.3 billion by 2012.

IBM also announced the Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On software. The new software allows users to securely sign-on once to their corporate network, and then automatically handles subsequent authentication and access to a wide range of different applications. By automating password management and allowing users a single password instead of several, employees can become more efficient and businesses can lower help desk costs associated with forgotten passwords.

With the new version, organisations can effectively and quickly enable secure remote access for their mobile workforce without installing any desktop software and modifying application servers. Remote workers, besides the necessary single password sign-on, can also opt to have a second authentication, to access corporate information from remote offices, home PCs, and PDAs.

This software, now available, provides customers with several new and enhanced features including support for additional strong authentication methods such as cell phones and building access badges, centralised and customised event reporting and auditing for governance and compliance initiatives, and improved out-of-the-box integration and session management capabilities. The software additionally provides new ‘visual profiling’ for simpler set-up and supports 13 new languages for global use.

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