IBM bought privately held Consul last week beefing up an already beefy Tivoli line with better security audit capabilities. Consul has worked with IBM for some time (see the case study on consul’s website here) so IBM must have liked what they saw. A couple things that I found interesting:

Per Computer Business Review:

This is not simply just another partner deal. While Consul has long offered RACF-based products, the real driver for the deal is recently developed, patent pending technology that correlates user access patterns from the cryptic logs maintained by various access control subsystems.

Once the deal is consummated, the Consul offerings would fill a major gap in Tivoli’s access management portfolio. Today, Tivoli Access Management can provision user privileges on a centralized basis. And thanks to this year’s acquisition of Micromuse, Tivoli has a network event correlation engine. But until now, Tivoli had no way of correlating user access patterns, or correlating user access with system events.

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