Upgrade application interface for a more connected world

Business applications handle sensitive business and personal data that must be protected. The growing adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud computing, mobile devices, and rich user interface technologies like AJAX, have lead to an explosion of clients that require access to those sensitive data. Vordel Access Gateway is the "front door" for enterprise applications and SOA infrastructure, securing, controlling, and mediating application integration interfaces.

Sensitive data such as personal identifiable information (PII), business transactions, and intellectual properties are shared via application interfaces like SOAP Web Services and REST APIs. Vordel Access Gateway strengthens access control to these data, while simplifying access from a growing ecosystem of clients.

Unify Access Control and Audit at a Single Point

The client explosion makes it challenging to enforce security policies and audit access consistently. Vordel Access Gateway is an integrated policy enforcement point (PEP) for authentication, authorization, and audit. The Gateway has out-of-the-box integrations with leading identity management products and supports a wide range of security standards , The Gateway makes it simple to add single sign-on (SSO), federated access, and fine grained authorization to any application and SOA interface. The Gateway also provides highly configurable logging, extensive analytics for service usage and quality, and real-timing traffic monitoring.

Protect Applications and Manage Usage

The client explosion increases the likelihood of compromised, mal-functioning, or just poorly designed clients. A malfunctioning partner service can overwhelm an application just as well as a malicious denial-of-service attack. Vordel Access Gateway monitors and enforces throttling policies to protect applications and uphold service quality. The Gateway can throttle request volume and simultaneous connections. Throttling policies can be based on client, message type, message size, client behavior, network condition, and traffic volume, … etc.

Add Integration Flexibility Instantly

The client explosion complicates technology and standards interoperability. Mobile clients prefer REST with JSON, while SOA clients prefer SOAP with XML. Integration protocols and message standards evolve more quickly than most applications can keep up with. Vordel Access Gateway offers extensive protocol translation and message transformation capabilities to provide a flexible integration interface for new and legacy applications. The mediation policies run external to the application at wire speed , thus not requiring any intrusive changes to existing application interface.