The Situation and Challenge

In most organizations, employees must remember between 5 and 30 passwords and are required to change many of them as frequently as every 30 days. The time wasted entering, changing, writing down, forgetting and resetting passwords might be in small increments, but those actions are frequent and add up to a significant consumption of employee time. And when employees are locked out because they’ve forgotten their passwords, they cannot perform theirjobs — or generate revenue for their companies.

Even more importantly, poor password selection and management by employees represents one of the biggest corporate security weaknesses today. Employees often write down their passwords in unsecured locations, use common words like “password” as their password and share their passwords with coworkers.

The proliferation of user passwords results in...

•  Frustrated users that have to call the help desk to reset forgotten passwords

•  Compromised security from obvious password choices and passwords on sticky notes

•  A high volume of password-related help desk calls

•  No easy way to monitor, track, and report on user access activity

The Wolcott Solution

Wolcott Group helps organizations to implement the IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On (TAM E-SSO) solution which provides simple authentication capability across applications.

•  It helps automate single sign-on, enhances security with automatic password management, and extends audit and reporting capabilities in a quick, simple-to-deploy solution

•  Acts as an integral part of the IBM security identity management portfolio for Microsoft Windows, Web, Java™, UNIX® (Telnet), in-house developed, and host-based mainframe applications

•   Delivers an Enterprise Single Sign-On solution powered by Passlogix technology, which recognizes and responds to password requests from almost any system or application

•  Works in congruence with both IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business and IBM Tivoli Identity Manager to provide a robust solution that addresses the issue of password clutter throughout the enterprise

•  Supports different types of user authentication from password to smart cards to biometrics, and can store user credentials and its own system settings and policies in any LDAP directory or one of several databases

•  Operates from an administrative console that simplifies administrative tasks by automatically recognizing and configuring applications for sign-on with minimal effort by the administrator

•  Offers users simple enterprise single sign-on while connected or disconnected to the corporate network, roaming between computers, or sharing a kiosk with multiple users

•  Helps eliminate users' need to manage passwords, adds user sign-on data to audit and reporting capabilities, and generates quick payback and high return on investment with a solution that is quick to deploy and reduces help desk costs

•  Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Sun Unix, Windows

The Solution’s Value

An Enterprise Single Sign-On solution can help you to...

•  Improve user productivity

•  Reduce up to 90% of password-related calls to your help desk

•  Implement and enforce more secure password policies

•  Improve your ability to monitor, track, and report on user access activity
 

The Proof of Our Success

Wolcott Group is a recognized leader in identity management implementations with over 2,000,000 user identities enabled for many large national and international clients. Wolcott Group is a certified partner of major technology leaders such as IBM, Microsoft, RSA, Sun Microsystems and more. When it comes to identity management implementation, Wolcott’s consultants, tools and partners deliver the highest value to solving client technology and business challenges.