Broad Support from ISVs for Tivoli SecureWay® Policy Director
 Policy Director's API Accepted as a Technical Standard by The Open Group

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 18, 2000 (RSA Conference) -- Tivoli Systems Inc., and IBM company, today announced top IT industry independent software vendor (ISV) support for Tivoli® SecureWay Policy Director, a leading authorization service for securing IT enterprises. Added proof of the security engine's industry acceptance was the recent approval by The Open Group™, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to enterprise integration, of the product's application programming interface (API) as a Technical Standard.

The central control point of Tivoli's SecureWay suite of security management and control products for e-business, Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director enables customers to have fine-grained access control for e-business applications. It provides access control management that centralizes network and application security policy, integrating the policy schemas for a company's security technologies with the software that enforces those policies. This integration helps reduce implementation time and management complexity, thereby lowering the total cost of secure computing.

"Enterprise customers today are faced with managing multiple security components and services from different vendors, each with its own unique approach to defining and enforcing security policy," said Phil Shacter, Director of Network Strategy Services for the Burton Group. "Strong industry support for Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director should enable a more consistent set of security policies, reduce the administration burden of managing policies across products, and result in greater integration between security products."

Advanced Authorization API: Now a Technical Standard

The Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director API, named Advanced Authorization API, is an application-independent security and authorization framework enabling customers to build security and authorization directly into their enterprise infrastructures. In December 1999, after review by The Open Group's Security and eCommerce Program Group -- with comments submitted by program group members including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Baltimore Technologies, Sun Microsystems, and Entrust Technologies -- the API was approved as a Technical Standard and published in January 2000. The specification is available at The Open Group web site at http://www.opengroup.org.

"The publication of this standard is a significant step forward in meeting the customer's demand for interoperable e-commerce solutions," said Allen Brown, President and CEO of The Open Group. "Customers and suppliers are increasingly participating in the Security Program Group to jointly develop these solutions. The Advanced Authorization API is one such result."

With the Advanced Authorization API, customers can take advantage of features such as security policy inheritance, replication, and intelligent load balancing. This results in reduced costs associated with application development and administration and the ability to leverage existing security infrastructure while migrating to new technologies.

ISVs Support Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director

"Tivoli's partnerships with leading ISVs are extremely important to providing customers a soup-to-nuts IT enterprise security solution," noted Carl Kessler, vice president and general manager of Tivoli's Security Business Unit. "Knowing that Tivoli is backed by some of the most noted software vendors in the IT industry gives customers added confidence in our solutions, as well as access to best of breed complementary products."

Policy Director forms the core of Tivoli's Permission Management Framework. Customers and ISVs installing and integrating with Policy Director will be able to leverage its security services over and over again as they add or enhance additional offerings. The following ISVs are have integrated or plan to integrate their applications to Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director:

  • Adobe Systems
  • Baltimore Technologies
  • Business Layers
  • Candle Technologies
  • XETI/Critical Path
  • CyberTrust, a GTE Company
  • Entegrity Solutions
  • Entrust Technologie
  • IriScan
  • LockStar
  • OpenNetwork
  • Process Software
  • RSA Security
  • VPNet Technologies
  • ValiCert
  • Xcert International

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About Tivoli SecureWay

Tivoli SecureWay products provide comprehensive security management and control solutions that enterprises need to enable cost-effective control of their entire e-business infrastructure. Tivoli SecureWay unites technology and resources from Tivoli Systems Inc., IBM SecureWay and DASCOM Inc.'s security management solutions to bring security management and control solutions enabling today's e-business. For more information on Tivoli's security management solution, visit their Web site: www.tivoli.com/security.

About Tivoli Systems Inc.

Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable and cross-platform technology management solutions that span networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software and Tivoli Ready™ products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM® company (NYSE: IBM). Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com.

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Contacts:

Tivoli Systems..................Cas Purdy.....................(512) 436-1211..............cas.purdy@tivoli.com
Lois Paul & Partners...........Judy Racino...................(512) 638-5306.............judy_racino@lpp.com
The Open Group...............Sean Egusa.....................(503) 225-0725 ext.235...seane@mkinc.com

Independent Software Vendors Show Broad Support for Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director

Mark Royle, Senior Marketing Manager Adobe Systems, Inc.
"Security and authentication of electronic content has become an absolute must for increasing number of corporations and is a critical aspect of Adobe ePaper Solutions. The intent of Adobe PDF is to make it easy for users to capture information and deliver it to any person, anywhere, on any platform. So, we are very excited to be working with the with the Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director solution."

Adobe Systems develop award winning software solutions for Web and print publishing. Its graphic design, imaging, dynamic media, and authoring tools enable customers to create, publish and deliver visually-rich content for various types of media.

Baltimore Technologies [Quote]
Baltimore Technologies develops security products and services to enable companies to develop trusted, secure systems for e-business, the Internet and mobile commerce. Products include a wide range of Public Key Infrastructure systems, wireless e-security solutions, cryptographic toolkits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices.

David Lavenda, Vice President of Marketing Business Layers
"Business Layers is proud to deliver a powerful tool that will enable SecureWay customers to better access their digital resources. The combined eProvisionware / SecureWay solution will enhance customers' e-business operations. We are currently working on tight integration with Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director. By using eProvisionware, Policy Director customers will be able to seamlessly set up a secure e-business environment from a high-level business definition of the e-business engagement. This is a first of its kind solution. We are able to leverage heavily on Tivoli's pervasive coverage of the security domain to solve a 'business problem' in a way that is transparent to many of its users."

Business Layers develops directory-based applications that translate how business changes impact an organization's digital infrastructure, and automatically provision digital services and resources. Their eProvisionware solutions cover a wide range of business driven IT activities over corporate Intranets and across Extranets.

Peter Hussey, President CyberTrust

"CyberTrust is pleased to be working with Tivoli, the leading Information Technology management company. The combination of CyberTrust's digital certificates with Tivoli's SecureWay offering creates a complete e-commerce security solution for global enterprises."

CyberTrust, a GTE Company, enables secure extranets and e-commerce for enterprise organizations. The CyberTrust Secure Extranet Method is a first-in-market standard for certificate-enabled extranets that support privilege-based user access, data confidentiality, audit trails and digitally signed, binding transactions.

Art Goldberg, Co-Founder and Vice President, Business Development Entegrity Solutions
"As a SecureWay Advisory Council Member, we are committed to interoperability with the Tivoli's SecureWay portfolio of products" said Art Goldberg, Vice President of Business Development and Co-Founder of Entegrity Solutions. "Entegrity's Security Development Platform (SDP) and Secured Application Solutions when used in conjunction with Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director technology, can provide a strong foundation for rapidly deploying PKI enabling applications with the functionality necessary to do the B2B e-commerce applications that our customers are demanding."

Entegrity Solutions develops standard, custom and legacy applications that secure business-to-business e-commerce needs of global 1000 companies. Based on a robust, standards-based secured application platform, Entegrity-Enabled(tm) applications work together in an open PKI.

Bob Heard Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Business Development Entrust Technologies
"Entrust is pleased to provide trusted e-business solutions which are compatible with Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director. Our interoperable authentication and authorization solutions are critical to providing scalable business- to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce applications in a mixed-vendor environment."

Entrust Technologies provides products and services that allow e-businesses to manage trusted, secure electronic transactions and communications over today's advanced networks, including the Internet, extranets and intranets. Over four million Entrust Technologies users have been licensed with digital certificates to date.

Lise Papotto, Director of Business Development, Financial Services and Gaming IriScan, Inc.
"The Tivoli SecureWay software suite provides the essential underpinnings for the success of any e-commerce venture: locating resources, connecting partners, and securing transactions. IriScan's iris recognition technology plays a key role in that security component -- namely, proving the partner's identity to prevent unauthorized access or activity. This critical identification elements helps reduce risk and cost, while increasing accountability and security."

IriScan is the exclusive owner of iris recognition technology, which identifies people by the patterns in the iris of the eye and eliminates the need for PINs and passwords, and replace or enhance consumables like cards and badges. Iris recognition technology is the most accurate, single-factor identification method, providing fast, user-safe, and cost-effective identity authentication.

Jane Schuchinski, President and Chief Executive Officer LockStar, Inc.
"With Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director, Tivoli has once again positioned itself as a leader in e-business security. As the industry's only vendor focused on bringing PKI functionality from the Web to mainframe back-end systems, LockStar is looking forward to working with Tivoli in the future to enable customers to deploy e-business applications rapidly and securely."

LockStar helps organizations deploy their web-enabled applications for e-business rapidly and safely through a security software line that allows business applications to use digital certificates and PKI, the de facto standard for Internet security.

Kurt Long, Chief Executive Officer OpenNetwork Technologies
"SecureWay Policy Director gives us a robust access control product to deploy DirectorySmart on top of in key global 2000 accounts. IMB/Tivoli's SecureWay in conjunction with our professional services is a likely candidate for scalable e-business solutions."

OpenNetwork provides e-business and Directory Service Software for market leading companies. Their flagship product, DirectorySmart(tm), is a powerful role-based user management tool that supports leading LDAP based directories.

Stephen Chirokas, Director of Product Marketing Process Software
"Process Software is working toward integrating its solutions for directory-based IP address and user management with Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director, a robust foundation for applying and managing security policies for e-business solutions. Integrating these two solutions will allow customers to seamlessly link the management of users and IP resources in their network infrastructure with the provisioning of secure applications. By establishing unique sets of relationships between security, network, and user resources, customers will be able to maintain a rich repository of critical information within a standards-based directory than can be used for a wide range of network applications."

Process Software delivers IP address management software solutions and services for enterprise networks. Products include IP AddressWorks(tm), which enables companies to address the Net with directory-centric IP address management. They also provide TCP/IP and cross platform software solutions and services.

Scott Schnell, Senior Vice President of Marketing RSA Security
 "RSA Security is committed to fostering open standards and interoperability for e-business security software. We're pleased to offer today RSA Keon PKI software that is compatible with Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director. We look forward to working with Tivoli to promote interoperability between our other products."

RSA Security helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-businesses through its RSA SecurID(r) two-factor authentication, RSA BSAFE(r) encryption and RSA Keon(tm) public key management systems.

ValiCert [QUOTE]
ValiCert provides end-to-end, secure infrastructure solutions for e-Transactions. Its Validation Authority, SecureTransport and Digital Receipt services and products protect organizations before, during and after e-Transactions through comprehensive trust, transaction and proof solutions.

Joseph Gow, Product Line Manager VPNet Technologies
"Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director unifies and centralizes the management of network security attributes by delivering a policy driven platform for authentication and authorization that is both comprehensive and scaleable. The standards-based cross-platform directory integration offered by the SecureWay Family allows organizations to extend the centralized management of their enterprise security policy to include VPNet's VPNware system. Enterprise customers can leverage the integration of Trust Authority PKI and the VPNware System to enable policy driven management of their secure remote access and extranet VPN solutions."

VPNet Technologies provides Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions to service providers and enterprises, including the scalable VPNware Systems for high levels of security, performance and manageability across a wide range of VPN applications. VPNet's innovative VPNsure(tm) Managed Services Program enables service providers and enterprises to outsource the implementation and management of their VPNs. (more) ISVs Support Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director - p.5 (more) (more)