Tivoli Delivers New Standard for Enterprise Security Management Across Multiple Distributed Platforms; Twelve Leading Security Vendors to Support Integration on TME 10.

PARIS, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1997-- Tivoli Systems Inc., the world's leader in network, systems and applications management, today announced it is shipping worldwide TME 10 Security Management, providing network administrators with centralized enterprise security management and policy enforcement. This new software also provides consistent mainframe-class access control across multiple, distributed computing platforms, easing the management problems faced by systems administrators.

With no centralized point of integration to administer their security policies across multiple platforms, network administrators face the daunting task of managing error-prone and costly manual administrative processes. Now with the strengths of TME 10 Security Management, augmented by solutions from best-of-breed providers, customers can select from a range of powerful solutions from leading security vendors.

Twelve leading security vendors confirmed they will support integration with Tivoli's TME 10. With this support, customers can comfortably and more easily implement a unified security solution without abandoning their existing base of security products from other vendors. Pledging their support for integration are AXENT, Check Point, CKS, CyberSafe, Cygnus Support, Haystack Labs, IBM, Internet Security Systems (ISS), Mergent, santix, Security Dynamics and Trusted Information Systems.

"The triad of TME 10 Security Management, our Applications Management Specification and our partners' technologies provides customers with a new standard for enterprise security management," said Jan Lindelow, president and chief operating officer of Tivoli Systems. "TME 10 Security Management allows security administrators to focus on the real level where security issues arise, namely the applications and the people who use them. Customers already have placed early orders for this new product, an acknowledgment of IBM's strong security heritage."

"The ability to deploy cost-effective and interoperable security services that actually work on enterprise networks has long been a dream," said Jim Hurley, Director, Operating Environments at AberdeenGroup, a leading computer and communications research and consulting organization. "Now, with TME 10 Security Management that dream may be fulfilled. IS executives charged with protecting vital information assets for the enterprise should run - not walk - to evaluate the TME 10 Security Management Solution."

Tivoli Raises the Competitive Bar for Security Management

TME 10 Security Management includes two core components. The Tivoli Access Control Facility (TACF), developed by Tivoli in partnership with MEMCO Software, delivers mainframe-class access control across distributed computing platforms. TME 10 Security Management centralizes enterprise security management at a single point of control across host and distributed environments and serves as an integration point for leading third-party security products.

Pricing and Availability

TME 10 Security Management is now shipping worldwide, priced at U.S $2,000 per server, and U.S. $75 per managed node. TME 10 Security Management includes support for Microsoft Windows NT and all leading UNIX platforms. Plans call for extending TME 10 Security Management to OS/390 Security Server, OS2, Novell NetWare and other major applications in 1998.

About Tivoli Systems

Tivoli Systems Inc., provides TME 10, the industry's leading solution for end-to-end management of distributed computing environments, from mobile computers to mainframes. Thousands of companies around the globe use TME 10 and compatible third-party products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of domestic and international sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit Tivoli's World Wide Web site at www.tivoli.com . -0-

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