Layer 7 Technologies Introduces Next Generation Clusterable SOA Security; Latest XML Firewall Release Sets New Standard for SOA Security Scalability and Manageability.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Security and Networking infrastructure for SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. , today announced general availability of its 3.5 Security operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. for its SecureSpan family of Tarari accelerated XML Gateways and Firewalls. The operating system adds new clustered policy and session features for enhanced scalability and manageability. Current generation XML Firewalls and Gateway products do not support automatic policy replication or session persistence across clustered deployments. This limits their ability to consistently and reliably enforce security policy or protect against session dependent transactional threats. Layer 7's new 3.5 Security operating system adds automatic policy replication, session persistence and multi-gateway monitoring for simplified scaling and management of enterprise XML Firewall deployments. "Customers deploying XML security and networking solutions at the content layers of the network stack expect the same scalability and manageability they have grown accustomed to at lower layers of IP traffic," explained Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst at SOA Subject Matter Expert Firm Zapthink. "With this latest release of their XML Gateway and Firewall OS, Layer 7 Technologies gives customers that capability." New features of the 3.5 Security operating system include: - Cluster-wide traffic and availability monitoring - Automated policy replication across clusters - Automatic stateful fail-over - No-downtime configuration change management across clusters - Cluster-wide session persistence for replay and man-in-the-middle protection - Cluster-wide PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of management - Clustered XML acceleration based on Tarari's latest RAX-CP silicon for XPATH, XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). and Schema Validation offload "With XML Firewalls and Gateways becoming more commonplace in enterprise networking The networking infrastructure in a large enterprise with multiple computer systems and networks of different types is extraordinarily complex. Due to the myriad of interfaces that are required, much of what goes on has little to do with the real data processing of the payroll and orders. environments, scalability and manageability will become increasingly paramount," said Scott Morrison Scott Morrison is a Canadian sports journalist. He worked for the Toronto Sun throughout throughout the 1980s and 1990s until he joined Rogers Sportsnet in 2001 as managing editor of hHockey. Layer 7 Technologies, Director of Architecture. "With this release, Layer 7 Technologies is setting a new standard for enterprise-grade XML security and networking." Layer 7 will be exhibiting with Tarari at Interop Las Vegas from May 2-4th in booth #575. To schedule a one-on-one demonstration of the 3.5 Security operating system, please contact Dimitri Sirota, VP Marketing & Alliances for Layer 7 Technologies at dsirota@layer7tech.com. About SecureSpan Gateway Layer 7 Technologies' SecureSpan(TM) XML Gateway is a high performance XML security and networking appliance for Web Services and SOA. Designed to inspect and process XML traffic at wirespeed, the SecureSpan Gateway combines market leading XML Firewalling technology with first of its kind XML VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. technology for simplified identity bridging in SOA portal and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business environments. The SecureSpan Gateway is the first XML Gateway to implement the Web Services Policy standard for enhanced flexibility and interoperability with popular middleware and application infrastructure. About Layer 7 Technologies Layer 7 Technologies is a leading provider of XML Security and Networking infrastructure for next generation Web Services, SOA and Web 2.0 applications. The Layer 7 SecureSpan family of XML Gateways and Firewalls provides award winning XML threat protection, data validation, message level security, acceleration and service mediation functions for applications and integrations using XML. To learn more please visit www.layer7tech.com. |
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