Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager

The process that ensures that the security policies and standards of a company are adhered to is called compliance management. It requires the ability to report on the current compliance status of the security controls of any installed system and to react to any observed deviations. Most businesses today heavily rely on their IT systems, and damage incurred to their critical systems through downtime can force a company out of business. It is a good business practice to minimize the risk to IT systems in proportion to their importance to the business. The factors that influence how much compliance you need can be based on economical, technological, regulatory, or legal reasons.

This IBM Redbook discusses the business context for security compliance management. It introduces the logical and physical components of Tivoli's solution offering. We explain the planning steps and describe how to deploy IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager (ITSCM) Version 5.1 in a banking environment and how to integrate it with IBM Tivoli Access Manager and IBM Tivoli Risk Manager.

This book is a valuable resource for security administrators and architects who wish to understand and implement a centralized security infrastructure.