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IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

Federated identity management provides a simple, loosely-coupled model for managing identity and access to resources that span companies or security domains. Rather than replicate identity and security administration at both companies, federated identity management provides a simple model for managing identities and providing them with access to information and services in a trusted fashion.

For companies deploying SOA and Web Services, federated identity management provides policy-based integrated security management for federated Web Services. The foundation of federated identity management is trust, integrity, and privacy of data.

Through this foundation of trust, integrity, and privacy, organizations can share identity and policy data about users and services versus replication identities and security policies locally. The sharing of trusted identities and policies is the key to delivering a richer experience for users navigating between federation sites. Trust enables companies to loosely couple their disparate identity management systems.

A federated model simplifies administration and enables companies to extend identity and access management to third-party users and third-party services.

  • Simplify integration between companies and their partners' Web sites, including simplified session management.
  • Improve business compliance by helping to reduce security exposure.
  • Improve end-user experience through Single Sign On (SSO).
  • Expand business reach of service providers creating revenue generating opportunities.
  • Simplify administration of security in cross-enterprise business processes by delivering "security as services".
  • Deliver policy-based integrated security management for SOA Web Services.
  • Support for open standards and specifications including Liberty, SAML, WS-Federation, WS-Security and WS-Trust.

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