Secure your web portal with Tivoli Access Manager

Access Manager is an enterprise-level security product that provides a single point-of-user authentication and authorization administration. Its Web single sign-on makes it a player in the Web world. Access Manager provides a single point of authentication and authorization to Web-based resources, and provides standards-based APIs that allow Web application servers to access Access Manager's security services.

In this article, we outline the functions of Web portals and Access Manager, and discuss the general integration of Access Manager with Web based products by using its reverse Web proxy and security APIs. I then specifically address IBM WebSphere Portal Server (WPS), and outline the integration points of WPS with Access Manager.