In the extended enterprise, the boundaries of partners are blurred with closer coordination of design, development and marketing activities giving way to stable collaborative relationships. Service-Oriented Architectures and XML Web services are allowing enterprises to dynamically integrate their business processes and IT systems using open standards-based specifications. Forum Systems Sentry provides the foundation infrastructure that drives a return on investment by enabling secure XML and Web services communications for mission critical applications.

Forum Systems Sentry allows enterprises to achieve a higher return on investment by implementing secure, scalable service-oriented architectures and event-driven applications. Our rack mount appliance offers 64-bit multiprocessor with crypto accelerator and optional FIPS Level III HSM.

Forum Systems Sentry features include:

SECURE WEB SERVICES COMMUNICATIONS

• Web Services Mediation and Virtualization
• Cryptographic accelerated Signature, Encrpytion and SSL security
• Native Protocol support for HTTP, Tibco EMS, IBM MQ, JMS, FTP, SMTP
• Stateful Request and Response message processing

AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION

• HTTP Basic Authentication
• SSL X.509 Certificate Authentication
• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
• WS-Security (User Name Token, X.509 Certificates and SAML)
• Vendor Identity Plug-ins
• Network and WSDL message level Access Control

DATA-LEVEL SECURITY POLICIES

• WSDL Operation and URI filtering
• Content filtering using XPath and regular expressions
• Digital Signatures and Encryption
• Composite Schema Validation
• Antivirus attachment scanning

XML WEB SERVICES SPECIFICATIONS

• WSDL, SOAP, XML, XSLT, XSD Schema,DTD, XPath, UDDI
• XML Digital Signature, XML Encryption, WS-Encryption, WS-Digital Signature
• WS-Trust, WS-Policy
• WS-I Basic Profile
• WS-Security Token Profiles
• PKCS, CRL, XKMS