IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile V8.0 is an appliance-based solution combining web access management and web application protection in a modular package specifically designed to help safeguard mobile, cloud, and social interactions across the enterprise.

Available as either a virtual or hardware-based appliance, IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile helps secure access points into the corporate network and enforce context-based access policies that define who and what can access protected resources. Highly scalable and configurable, the solution is designed to provide a policy-based user authentication and authorization system that helps defend against the latest web-based security threats.

Mobile access has become the new paradigm for online collaboration. Trends such as bring your own device (BYOD) are encouraging employees to use personal devices to access their business data and applications anytime, anywhere in order to be more productive. Moreover, enterprises today are undergoing a fundamental transformation in their businesses and the way they interact with their customers. Increasingly, more of them are choosing to interact directly with their customers over the web and on mobile devices through applications.

With IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile, enterprises can now address their mobile security challenges by:

• Helping enable user access to mobile and web applications through single sign-on and session management.
• Enforcing context-aware authorization through mobile device finger printing, geographic location awareness, and IP reputation.
• Helping improve identity assurance for the mobile users with built-in and flexible strong authentication schemes including many one-time password options, which are often used in mobile transactions (for example, email, counter-based, RSA, SMS, and time-based one-time passwords).
• Providing mobile security intelligence and demonstrating compliance through built-in integration with IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform.
• Helping provide fast time to value and low total cost of ownership through easy deployment and configuration of virtual and hardware appliance form factors.

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