IBM announced details of new application security software designed to help clients securely manage employee, partner and customer IT users and their access to company applications and information.

The new release of <A HREF="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24257.wss">IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager</A> software focuses on enabling a company's separate business divisions to deploy secure software applications using open standards and a wide range of security credentials without needing to embed complex security logic into each application. The solution simplifies application integration using many forms of user credentials and facilitates the secure sharing of information between trusted parties--such as business partners or separately managed divisions within an organization operating in an SOA environment.