Features & Benefits

Policy Design

Intuitive Policy Management tool

• Policies may be created to manage XML traffic, controlling application integration.
• The Drag-and-drop interface requires little training time, allowing administrators to get started building policies quickly
• Policy creation without a requirement for writing any code

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Centralized Policy Management Across Gateways and Firewalls

• Maintain up to the minute control of all XML traffic on the network.
• Accelerate roll out of SOA deployment through centralized configuration and management of security policies.
• Scale and accelerate enterprise wide security policy deployment

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Graphical policy configuration

• Reduce and contain software development and maintenance costs. Remove the need for hard-coding every time security policies are created or updated

Lifecycle Policy Management

Policy rollback

• Roll back policy versions quickly and easily

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Role Based Access to Policies

• Allow different users to have differential access to policies
• Ensure that only authorized administrators can change policies

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Lifecycle and change management

• Ensure that policy changes are managed and controlled
• Avoid unmanaged policy edits

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Policy migration from testing through staging into production

• Test policies on staging systems, prior to going into production, to avoid errors in live environment

Centralized Management of Distributed Network of XML Gateways and Firewalls

Root Cause Analysis

• Ensure optimum system performance by allowing administrators to pinpoint the individual services slowing down the system as a whole.

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Provisioning of XML Networking infrastructure

• Efficient resource management as new instances of XML Gateways and XML Firewalls to be created and deployed quickly.
• This is particularly relevant for deployments on virtual server platforms

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Options for policy storage: Directory, Database, UDDI, or XML policy files

• Complete flexibility with multiple policy storage options. E.g. LDAP directories, Relational (SQL) Databases, XML Databases, or simply on the file system as XML files.

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Centralized Logging

• Gain visibility of XML traffic across the network

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