IBM® Security Directory Server provides a platform for your enterprise security initiatives. This enterprise identity management software uses the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). IBM Security Directory Server provides a trusted identity data infrastructure for authentication.
IBM Security Directory Server provides:
- Industry-standard architecture and broad platform support – for a range of operating systems and applications and a variety of heterogeneous environments.
- Strong scalability and flexibility – to support hundreds of millions of entries using IBM DB2® technology and a built-in proxy-server.
- Availability – to support an identity data infrastructure for global online applications such as consumer-driven web services.
- The ability to help you mange identities in the cloud.
- Robust auditing and reporting – that provides insight with connectivity to IBM QRadar® SIEM and greater visibility into repository with sample reports.
Industry-standard architecture and broad platform support
- Uses LDAP identity infrastructure software and meets LDAP industry compliance standards.
- Fits existing environments and offers the flexibility to add new directory-enabled IBM or non-IBM applications in the future.
- Supports leading platforms including IBM AIX®, IBM i5/OS®, IBM z/OS®, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows Server, HP-UX and SUSE and Red Hat Linux distributions.
- Has been evaluated under the Common Criteria at Evaluated Assurance Level 4, augmented by ALC_FLR.1 for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, AIX, Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC), HP-UX 11i (Itanium), Red Hat Advanced Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1.
- Supports social interaction and creates a hierarchical structure of an enterprise, enabling people search and interaction.
Strong scalability and flexibility
- Offers a built-in proxy server that provides extensive scalability for entries and groups.
- Includes support for IBM Security Directory Integrator functionality that enables IBM Security Directory Server to be used as an enterprise directory in a heterogeneous environment.
- Serves as the default directory infrastructure for IBM WebSphere® Application Server, IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Security Identity Manager, IBM Security Access Manager and the AIX operating system.
- Supports bind using a configurable attribute such as email or employee identification rather than DN syntax.
- Uses IBM DB2® technology as its back-end store.
Availability
- Maintains availability with master/subordinate and peer-to-peer replication capabilities.
- Supports scheduled online or offline backup and restore.
- Supports virtual list views so you can scroll forward or backward through entries in a large sorted data set. You can also record deleted entries.
- Enhances proxy server capabilities with flow control for managing requests and paging search results for single and multiple partitions. Provides a smart fail-back mechanism to restore servers safely.
- Offers strong replication features. Can configure multiple master copies to provide highly-available implementations for global enterprise, nonstop application support.
The ability to help you manage identities in the cloud
- Helps user and group management in the cloud by supporting System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM).
- Supports the necessary create, read, update and delete (CRUD) operations through a Representational State Transfer application program interface (API).
Robust auditing and reporting
- Integrates with IBM Security Directory Server logs and IBM. QRadar SIEM for advanced auditing and intelligence.
- Provides insight and visibility into developing threats and compliance requirements.
- Provides sample reporting on objects, groups and users.