T. Rowe Price turns to Tivoli policy director for extended Web security...and presence

Rowe Price is expanding its use of Tivoli's SecureWay Policy Director to, among other things, upload more applications and functions to its secure Web site. Policy Director, originally a product by Dascom, which was acquired by Tivoli over a year go, is an intricate authorization and permissioning engine that allows a firm like T. Rowe Price to afford its clients a single login into an infinite number of secure sites and applications.

"When we started using the Web two years ago, we realized there was no way we could do it and have our customers deal with a login for every system, says Kirk Kness, executive vice president of application architecture at T. Rowe Price. "Since then, we've put up our planned sponsor Web site ... and probably have about 20 applications behind this thing. Everything from our purchase-request systems to our e-mail system to our desktop...