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=IBM Tivoli Access Manager=
=IBM Tivoli Access Manager=


A centralized policy management solution for distributed applications.  
A complete, centralized authorization and network security policy solution solution for distributed applications. It provides security policy management, an authentication framework, an authorization framework, data security and centralized resource management capabilities. 
 
The authentication framework supports built-in authenticators and supports external authenticators.


==WebSEAL==
==WebSEAL==


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.
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. WebSEAL acts as a reverse proxy, receiving HTTP/HTTPs requests from browsers and delivering content from its own web servers. Requests passing through WebSEAL are evaluated by the Tivoli Access Manager authorization service to determine whether the user is authorized to access the requested resource.

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IBM Tivoli Access Manager

A complete, centralized authorization and network security policy solution solution for distributed applications. It provides security policy management, an authentication framework, an authorization framework, data security and centralized resource management capabilities.

The authentication framework supports built-in authenticators and supports external authenticators.

WebSEAL

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. WebSEAL acts as a reverse proxy, receiving HTTP/HTTPs requests from browsers and delivering content from its own web servers. Requests passing through WebSEAL are evaluated by the Tivoli Access Manager authorization service to determine whether the user is authorized to access the requested resource.