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

Business/Technology Editors

RSA Conference 2000

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000

Tivoli(R) Systems Inc., an IBM company, today announced top IT industry independent software vendor (ISV) support for Tivoli SecureWay(R) 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(tm), 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 the Tivoli 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 (aznAPI), 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. The specification was published in January 2000 and 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 have integrated or plan to integrate their applications to Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director:

-- Adobe Systems                        -- LockStar
-- Baltimore Technologies               -- OpenNetwork
-- Business Layers                      -- Process Software
-- Candle Technologies                  -- RSA Security
-- CyberTrust, a GTE Company            -- VPNet Technologies
-- Entegrity Solutions                  -- ValiCert
-- Entrust Technologies                 -- Xcert International
-- IriScan

    Related Announcements

    In other announcements today, Tivoli unveiled:

    -- Formation of the new Tivoli Security Business Unit;
    -- Tivoli SecureWay security management and control solutions;
    -- Availability of the IBM's MARS encryption algorithm under a
        royalty-free license, worldwide.

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(tm) products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM(R) 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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