IBM, Cisco unite to boost security

IBM and Cisco have formed an alliance to help customers improve security and identity management. The companies announced four initiatives last week. An integration of IBM's Tivoli Identity Manager software and Cisco's Secure Access Control Server will be available next month. The integration is designed to reduce the cost of managing a large number of employee, business partner and customer identities across a broad array of networked business applications, the companies said.

It would also reduce common security risks, they said.

"If an IT department needs to do bulk updating of customer permissions, usually the administrator has to update in each system. This product centralises that task," IBM Tivoli Security Asia-Pacific executive Con Yanikos said.

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