A treasure of information, all to discover, manage and secure
Since decades the companies produce an always increasing quantity of information and data that can decide their success and their performances. Some have learned to make a good use of it and to optimise the management and security, others still use "minimal" solutions, maybe the simple file system of their network, that do not allow them to find, store and be sure that all the information will not get lost or that they can be immediately available when they really need it.
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The era of web, digitalisation and connections wherever and whatever has given to companies and users an increasing amount of data and information of any kind and dimension. From the ability to manage this unlimited amount of data, and moreover to find inside it the information really important and decisive for their business, depends nowadays a great part of the company's destiny.
Avnet and IBM know it very well and this is why they have found a series of solutions to answer this need.
Solutions able to satisfy the needs of companies of every dimension, from the SMEs to enterprises, and able to offer a high security level towards who enters the information, easy management and storage.
>>Access
>>Safe access and monitoring
The safe access or the warranty that only authorised people may really have access to the information is the first essential move. If data and crucial information of a company are in fact easily accessible also to unauthorised people or to someone who simply does not understand or know the importance of them, the consequences may be very serious.
>>Tivoli Identity Manager/Access manager
Solutions that offer a complete suite for the identity management of its own costumers, integrated with all its operating and application systems (through a plug-in) and extended to web applications by Tivoli Access Manager. Tivoli Access Manager manages and verifies the users' identity at 360°: from the access information to the synchronization of authentication systems.
It offers an administration console easy to use and it can be integrated with the user's desktop to automate security audit functionalities or utilities like password recovery or account restoration.
Tivoli Identity manager, moreover, makes available services of authentication in SOA modality, making the approach to the authentication modular and allowing to extend the infrastructure also through services, implemented by third parties, that have no access to the security backend management. Tivoli Identity Manager instead relies on Identity Manager or on an existing data source (usually a LDAP system) and offers services for management of secure access to systems and applications.
Tivoli Access Manager includes a system for dynamic management of security, able to offer more flexibility in comparison to a standard management based on "access groups". With Tivoli Access Manager the groups become rules and the access is controlled according to multiple factors, from the access level assigned to an user, to the security of the communication channel used, from the time to the client employed.
Besides, when it is Tivoli Access Manager that manages the access to the system, the company obtains an audit system of the integrated access in order to monitoring in an unambiguous way all accesses and activities on the systems.
Both Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Access Manager are supported by a wide choice of platforms and operative systems as: AIX, HPUNIX, LINUX, Windows, z/OS.
Should your information been stored on IBM i for Business (System i), there are other specific solutions that make the scene.
>>>Ericom Power Connect/Webconnect
Secure access suite to every kind of terminal, from System i to mainframes, including Windows Terminal Server environment.
The Encom solution enables a secure "client-less" access, also through internet, to the systems and to the company's information too. The Server PowerConnect/Webconnect can be installed on Windows and Linux servers and adapt itself to the operating systems already used in the company.
The main components of Ericom for the access to the company include:
- Ericom Server that coordinates the safe communication towards Host ot terminal server environments, adding intelligence and management logic (i.e. preserving open sessions in case of unexpected disconnections);
- Secure access portal that presents the applications and the sections available to the user who make the access;
- The administration console that allows to manage all the Ericom Environment without installing anything on the client;
- The plug-ins for Lotus/Expedito client (that introduce inside the Lotus client the access to sections);
- The portlets created for IBM WebSphere Portal Server that allow to present, in a single environment, also the access to the applications published through Ericom server.
