This release contains new features, enhancements, currency
support, and fixes.
- Virtual appliance only
- The IBM® Security
Privileged Identity Manager solution is now available only as a virtual
appliance deployment. The virtual appliance distribution simplifies
deployment, administration, and configuration.
- Application identity management
- Application identity management secures
application to application credentials and tracks their use. This
capability helps organizations mitigate the risk exposure that is
posed by embedded passwords in applications and scripts, and allows
governance of application credentials according to password management
policies. Java™ applications, WebSphere® Application Server
applications, and unattended scripts can retrieve privileged credentials
that are managed by IBM Security
Privileged Identity Manager instead of using embedded passwords in
source code or configuration files.
For more information,
see the following topics:
- Privileged Identity Manager
Service Center and additional scenario-driven user interface improvements
The new Privileged Identity
Manager Service Center provides a unified catalog of common privileged
identity management tasks, designed for the privileged administrator.
The administration console, refocuses features on advanced settings
for shared credentials and administration. The self-care user interface,
which provides a subset of personal tasks for users, improves support
for privileged identity access, request, and management tasks.
For more information,
see Shared access consoles.
- Advanced provisioning integration
and user on-boarding with the IBM Security
Privileged Identity Manager adapter for IBM Security
Identity Manager
- You can integrate IBM Security Identity Manager with IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager for
more user provisioning, role modeling, and identity management capabilities.
New REST APIs for privileged credentials allow developers to develop
integration solutions for user onboarding.
For more information,
see
- Support for privileged identities
on the IBM SoftLayer cloud platform with an on-premise solution
- Added support for managing the
shared use of IBM SoftLayer privileged accounts from deployments of
an on-premise IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager solution. The
virtual appliance carries a SoftLayer AccessProfile and the SoftLayer
Adapter. You can use IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager to manage
the shared use of IBM SoftLayer
master, user, and privileged accounts for resources that are hosted
on IBM SoftLayer.
The
virtual appliance is bundled with the following components:
- SoftLayer Adapter,
to support password reset upon checkin on the SoftLayer accounts
- SoftLayer AccessProfile,
to support automated checkout and checkin of shared accounts
from Windows machines into the SoftLayer portal and
virtual private network, with session recording function.
For more information,
see
Integration with SoftLayer.
- AccessAgent on Remote Desktop Gateway 2012
- You can deploy IBM Security Access Manager
for Enterprise Single Sign-On AccessAgent V8.2.1 on Microsoft Windows
Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services as a RemoteApp. Remote Desktop
Gateway provides remote users access to resources that use shared
credentials from IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager.
For
more information, see Client deployment modes.