IBM Tivoli Access Manager Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars

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Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 17 2017

What is most valuable?

Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites. These are heavily customizable and can fully integrate with in-house provisioning systems.

How has it helped my organization?

Allows users to use a single password across a set of multi-tenant application suites. This would have otherwise required 50-100 unique passwords per application. This allows the user to inject a centralized password (a.k.a. authentication... more»

What needs improvement?

The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available. The majority of the "IMS profiles" we use are too dangerous to... more»

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Norio Chiba

Solution Architect Lead at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sep 01 2016

What is most valuable?

WebSEAL is a reverse proxy web server that performs authentication and authorizations. It is similar to CA SiteMinder Secure Proxy Server. The advantage of WebSEAL is that WebSEAL supports SPNEGO protocol and Kerberos authentication to... more»

How has it helped my organization?

The combination of TAM with IDM in IBM Tivoli Identity Manager helped us to realize robust and secure authentication infrastructure in accordance with industry regulations and laws. * Providing centralized authentication authority and enforce... more»

What needs improvement?

Due to a constraint of the built-in browser in a Handy phone (called NTT i-Mode), the former version of TAM could not be used in the Japan market. The issue was resolved by the decline of Japan-specific Handy phones. Cookies were not... more»

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Wim Thevelin

Iam Security Architect & Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 31 2017

What is most valuable?

A number of new features, such as application firewall and load balancer, were added to this solution. These features are no longer available as a software version, but only as an appliance (virtual or hard). The same appliance firmware... more»

How has it helped my organization?

It acts as a reverse proxy, a single point for authentication and authorization. Advanced access control introduces adaptive or risk-based authentication. Federation makes it possible to federate using SAML and OAuth.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see the possibility to administer the appliances from one “master” appliance, instead of having to log in to each particular appliance. If you have for example 4 appliances, two act as reverse proxy and two as master... more»

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Jeff Grossman

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 01 2017

What is most valuable?

Tivoli Access Manager's proxy product (WebSEAL) is extremely fast. The configuration options are mysterious and old-school, but they are a rich and small enough set that you can comprehend them and get it working right. The auth and policy... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Step-up authentication in WebSEAL is a hook. You write a function to a particular spec, register it, and it gets called. The hook is in C, which makes sense because WebSEAL is fast and could not be written in an interpreted or high-level... more»

What needs improvement?

There is only a single step-up authentication path, but I have sometimes seen the need for several steps or a divergent path. It’s getting hard to find people willing to admit that they still write in C programming language.

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Security9ba6

Security architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 21 2017

What is most valuable?

* The Verify feature: A push method which customers are going for * “Password-less” solution * A very good demo to look at * A very good solution to take to customers * Solves a lot of the problems with help desk calls and password resets * A... more»

How has it helped my organization?

* More productive work for employees: They do not have to spend time on resetting passwords or spend time with help desk calls * Return on investment for companies: Many companies spend a lot of money on these help desk calls * It is a good... more»

What needs improvement?

I am pretty happy with the outcome so far this year. We have yet to hear from the customers. I have not updated it myself and I have not done any work with customers. Looking at their roadmap, they have a broad grasp of the security features... more»

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What is IBM Tivoli Access Manager?

IBM Tivoli Access Manager is a robust and secure centralized policy management solution for e-business and distributed applications. IBM Tivoli Access Manager WebSEAL is a high performance, multi-threaded Web server that applies fine-grained security policy to the Tivoli Access Manager protected Web object space. WebSEAL can provide single sign-on solutions and incorporate back-end Web application server resources into its security policy.

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Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Security Access Manager

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Essex Technology Group Inc.