IBM signs on developers automate privacy management
Posted: 6 August 2003
New tools that will help build Privacy Monitors for Enterprise
Applications
IBM announced today new tools available at no charge for download
from IBM’s alphaWorks Web site to help independent software
vendors (ISVs) and enterprises link new and existing applications
with enterprise privacy management software, such as IBM Tivoli
Privacy Manager.
“Protecting privacy is an industry-wide concern in the Middle
East. IBM is constantly developing new technology to make it easier
to build privacy enforcement into privacy-sensitive applications
of any size,” said Bashar Kilani, Manager of IBM Software
Group for Middle East, Egypt and Pakistan.
“Major software vendors, custom application vendors and enterprises
should take an active role in automating privacy management to reduce
privacy violations and reduce privacy enforcement costs.”
This represents an important new capability that developers can
use to build automated privacy protection into existing and new
applications to help protect privacy.
Automated privacy management helps companies reduce the costs of
managing privacy across the enterprise, and increasing productivity
of systems administration staff.
Using the two new tools — the Reference Monitor for Tivoli
Privacy Manager and Declarative Privacy Monitoring for Tivoli Privacy
Manager — developers can reduce the time and expertise needed
to create new monitors for their applications.
These monitors link new and existing applications to privacy management
software, allowing developers to build privacy rules and audit reporting
into the applications without having to hard-code privacy functions
into each individual application. By making applications “privacy
aware” automatically, updating privacy policies can become
easier and more manageable.
For example, a developer of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) financial
applications can use Declarative Privacy Monitoring for Tivoli Privacy
Manager to help protect sensitive, personal financial data contained
in Web-based Java applications without requiring modifications to
Java code. This technology allows J2EE Web applications to be deployed
to work with Tivoli Privacy Manager without having to modify the
application code.
IBM Tivoli Privacy Manager monitors applications or databases and
authorizes access to personal information based on business purposes
defined in an XML-based privacy policy administered from a central
server. When new or updated private data is submitted or updated,
the monitors automatically collect consent information and create
an audit trail of the access requests and directs Tivoli Privacy
Manager to record information about the data submission.
The application monitor collects:
- whose data is being accessed
- who is accessing the data (application and/or user)
- time that the access occurred
- whether the access complied with the policy in effect.
IBM Tivoli Privacy Manager is the industry’s first automated
privacy management software.
Developed in conjunction with the IBM Privacy Management Advisory
Council, a cross-industry team of security and privacy experts,
the software provides facilities for both auditing and enforcing
privacy rules while minimizing the impact to existing applications.
The IBM Privacy Management Advisory Council includes the more than
25 member companies — spanning finance, healthcare, government
and other industries — that help shape product design and
strategic direction.
For more information see www.ibm.com.
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