Businesses today are exploiting XML and Web Services to enable rapid application integration internally across the enterprise and externally with trading partners, suppliers and end-customers. Regardless of what stage an enterprise is along the path of XML adoption, be it for tactical point-to-point XML-based integration projects through to the full-blown roll out of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Vordel's products address the requirements of this wave of integration.

Vordel 5 is a set of enterprise XML network infrastructure products that address the key requirements of XML-based integration and SOA.

They deliver:-
  • Performance - removal of XML processing bottlenecks
  • Identity Management - application of identity controls to SOA
  • Policy Control - centralized policy management throughout the SOA
  • XML Application Networking - XML data transformation, routing and acceleration
  • Security - full protection against all threats
  • Monitoring - full visibility of Web Services usage

The products are:-


XML offload with data transformation, routing and acceleration

Threat protection for XML applications from malicious attack and unauthorized access

Centralized policy creation and management for networks of XML firewalls and gateways

Full visibility reporting on Web Service usage

Web Services test tool
XML Firewall and XML Gateway Overview

The Vordel XML Gateway and Firewall products are delivered on the carrier grade VX deployment platform for customers with the most demanding XML processing requirements. The VX consists of Vordel's patented XML acceleration and parallelization technology, VXA, combined on a hardened pre-integrated platform.

Vordel XML Gateway also incorporates the patented high performance core VXA (Vordel XML Acceleration) engine, coupled with acceleration hardware ensures wirespeed network performance. Vordel XML Gateway also incorporates all of the threat prevention functionality available in Vordel XML Firewall.

For a more detailed functionality overview please see the table below.

Feature XML Firewall XML Gateway
Web Services Protocols
SOAP
Plain XML
REST
Networking
Service Virtualization
Content-based routing
Source-based routing
Identity-based routing
Protocol Conversion [HTTP/JMS/MQ]
XML Data Enrichment
Policy Control
Drag-and-drop policy creation
Conditional branching within policies
Import/Export of policies
Policy chaining
Policy Migration
Wildcard values within policies
Identity Management Integration
LDAP (incl. Sun, Novell, Siemens, etc)
Microsoft Active Directory
CA SiteMinder
CA SOA Security Manager
RSA Access Manager (ClearTrust)
Entrust GetAccess
IBM Tivoli Access Manager
Oracle Access Manager
XACML
Security and Identity Mediation
Built-in Security Token Service (STS)
SAML Token Issuance and "injection"
WS-Trust
Credential Mapping
Token mapping (X.509 to SAML, etc)
Encryption and Signing
SSL
XML Encryption
XML Signature
WS-Security SOAP Message Security
Threat Detection
Block malformed XML
Block WSDL Scanning
Block SQL Injection
Block XPath Injection
Block XXE Attacks
Block XML Bomb Attacks
Block rogue SOAP Attachments
Detect viruses in SOAP Attachments
Schema Validation
XML Clogging Detection
SOAP Operation Filtering
IP Address Filtering
Traffic Throttling
HTTP Header Analysis
HTTP Query String Analysis
Malicious content signature library
Authentication
HTTP Authentication (Basic/Digest)
SSL Mutual Authentication
WS-Security UsernameToken
WS-Security X.509 Certificate Token
Other token types
Authorization
Role-based access control
Authorization based on database query
Content-based authorization
Delegation to third-party AuthZ systems
Audit
Traffic Logging
Log Signing
Alerting
Email
SNMP
Syslog
Windows Event Log
CheckPoint OPSEC
System Monitoring and Management
SNMP for HP OpenView, CA UniCenter, etc
Real-time Monitoring Console
Syslog
Windows Event Log
CheckPoint OPSEC
Role-based access to policies
Extensibility
JavaScript API for custom filters
Java API for custom filters
Conversion
XSLT
Custom Java Message Conversion
Service Quality
Service outage detection
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Certificate Management
X.509 Certificate Issuance
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) support
OCSP support
XKMS support