On Monday OpenTrust announced that as a key IBM Business Partner, it has successfully reached the critical certification of Ready for Tivoli Software.

OpenTrust Smart Card Management (SCM) is now easily connected to IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, providing a highly secure and comprehensive identity lifecycle management solution for large organizations around the globe.

OpenTrust provides a unique solution to organizations who have deployed Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions to manage their users, employees and partners on securing their digital identities for each components (router, network, machines, servers, PDA, etc.).

This joint digital identity solution will enable the implementation of strong secure identity solutions for confidential information for employees, suppliers and partners.

OpenTrust works in close collaboration with IBM for serving the needs of the Trusted Identity market. These are in line with the themes of Trust and Security , subjects easily associated with IBM.

OpenTrust Solution and IBM Tivoli is the answer for the identity management solutions integrated with the state of the art cryptographic tools in strong authentication and digital identity support, be it Smart Cards or USB tokens.

OpenTrust solutions offered a simple robust management solution strengthened by high modularity and scalability for large volumes of distributed users.

"This certification has been one of our key goals for this year. We are pleased to extend our capabilities for customers looking for a 'one stop shop' solution to answer their needs for highly secure and comprehensive identity packages. Our solution is now rapidly integrated with infrastructures that have IBM Tivoli software. This is just a start of more Ready for IBM middleware solutions by OpenTrust", said Olivier Guilbert, CEO of OpenTrust.