New Tivoli Global Sign-On Speeds Access to Business Resources and Improves Employee Productivity.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999-- Provides Integrated Security Across Applications, Systems and the Internet Tivoli Systems today announced that Tivoli Global Sign-On is now available as an option in the Tivoli Enterprise product suite. This new solution provides users with a simple and secure method to access business systems and applications while providing IT managers with centralized security management with the simplicity and scalability of One Touch Management. Using Tivoli Global Sign-On, users enjoy out-of-the-box, single-point access to all resources in the enterprise, including systems and servers, databases and even Internet applications, making "forgotten passwords," password breaches and resulting work disruption a thing of the past. Tivoli Global Sign-On also offers IT organizations flexible, easy-to-use sign-on authentication options such as smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. and fingerprint readers. Utilizing the industry's only self-installing and self-updating management agent, Tivoli is the first enterprise management vendor to make it practical to deploy secure resource access to tens of thousands of users throughout an enterprise. Designed with the industry's most powerful and scalable three-tiered architecture for One Touch Management, Tivoli Enterprise ensures that environment changes are distributed simultaneously to thousands of users and that IT administrators gain centralized authentication control. "Technology-driven businesses are tasked with maintaining secure, cross-platform computing environments while improving usability of critical business applications for their employees," said Martin Neath Neath (nēth), Welsh Castell-nedd, town (1981 pop. 48,687), Neath Port Talbot, S Wales, on the Neath River. Neath is both a market and an industrial town. Metallurgy and a growing petrochemical industry are important. , executive vice president, Tivoli Systems. "With Tivoli Global Sign-On, customers can address this challenge with technology that strengthens enterprise security, reduces risk, exposure and service costs and improves the experience of business system users." IT organizations looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. reliable and scalable single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. capabilities that are available out-of-the-box to systems and applications such as PeopleSoft Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Lotus Domino can use Tivoli Global Sign-On to reduce help desk costs and provide users with easier access to resources. Improved Management Reduces Security Risks Most users in a corporate environment typically access four to ten applications and systems every day, each of which requires a unique logon and password for access. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a 1998 Ernst & Young Information Security Survey, 62 percent of respondents listed multiple logons and passwords as a highest rated security concern. Users with many passwords tend to write them down and keep them somewhere that is easily accessible to others, creating a significant security problem inside an organization. The same survey found the overwhelming majority of security losses come from inside an organization rather than from outside intruders. Tivoli Global Sign-On eliminates the need for users to remember multiple logons and passwords by prompting once for login criteria when they start their work, then automating other logons with information and passwords from a secure, centralized database using the Data Encryption Standard See DES. Data Encryption Standard - (DES) The NBS's popular, standard encryption algorithm. It is a product cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of data, using a 56-bit key. It is defined in FIPS 46-1 (1988) (which supersedes FIPS 46 (1977)). (DES). Eliminating user's inability to access business systems and resources due to password problems also greatly improves IT service levels and help desk productivity since password problems are identified as the primary reason users contact their help desks. Pricing and Availability Tivoli Global Sign-On is part of Tivoli's integrated management solution and is available today through Tivoli sales channels. Tivoli Global Sign-On integrates out-of-the-box with commercially available systems, databases and applications such as Window NT, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , S/390, AS/400, Novell NetWare (operating system, networking) Novell NetWare - Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. , Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. , Oracle, Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. and many more. Pricing begins at $2,000 per server and $75 per client. About Tivoli Systems Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable and cross-platform management solutions that span networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software Tivoli Software is the systems management brand of the IBM Software Group. IBM purchased Austin-based Tivoli Systems, Inc. in 1996[1] and allowed it to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary for a few years before forming the Software Group. and compatible third-party products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Company. Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit Tivoli's World Wide Web site at http://www.tivoli.com. Tivoli, Tivoli Enterprise, Tivoli Global Sign-On and One Touch Management are registered trademarks or trademarks of Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM company. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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