Simple, secured integration for a distributed enterprise

To on-board a new business partner or remote location to integrate to central services and applications requires sorting out interoperability issues with security, policy, and technology. For third party clients this can also involve integration to client-side identity management infrastructure. On-boarding and supporting a large number of these clients on an one-off basis is not a scalable operation. Vordel Client Connect provides enterprise IT a simple way to on-board and support application integrations across the Internet using a pre-configured appliance.

Working with a provider-side Gateway, Vordel Client Connect is a client-side Gateway that completes the two ends of a secured integration pipe. With a Gateway at both ends, identity federation, policy negotiation, and security integration can all be greatly simplified. Vordel Client Connect is available as both hardware and software appliances and can be deployed on-premise or in the Cloud.

Prebuilt Integration with Client-side Identity System

When integrating with business partners, one of the major challenges is identity and access management integration. Business partners like to authenticate locally using their on-site enterprise directory, enforce their own access policies, and even single sign-on to your services. This often results in deploying fragile custom code on the client side or adding complicated schemes on the provider side. Vordel Client Connect ships with out-of-the-box integrations with all the leading identity management products. For example, Client Connect can translate a proprietary browser security cookie to a SAML security token and insert the token into the service request. Using Client Connect's tested and supported integrations improves overall system manageabiltiy and reliability.

Pre-configured Standardized Integration

Securing service calls and data exchange across the Internet inivolves working thorugh many details, such as authentication token format, port configuraiton, and certificates. These tasks can be more difficult if the client-side system has limited capabilities supporting security standards, popular protocols, and fault tolerance. Vordel Client Connect fills client-side system deficiencies and provides the necessary transformation and protocol support so service provider can deploy a standardized implementation across all clients, with preconfigured integration protocols, security policies, and artifacts, as well as required logging and traceability to enable on-going administration.

Distributed Processing to Maximize System Performance

Vordel Client Connect is a secured extension of the provider-side gateway. Since Client Connect is also built on Vordel's VXA Engine, it has full XML and security processing capabilities. For certain integration architecture, it can be optimal to offload many XML and security processing tasks from the provider-side Gateway to the Client Connect. This distributed architecture may help to reduce traffic volume across the network, reduce unnecessary transmission of sensitive data, simplify provider-side infrastructure, and improve overall system-wide performance and service level.