Web Services Access Control

Web Services Manager is a comprehensive solution for managing service oriented architectures.

This solution:

• Collects monitoring statistics to ensure service levels and security, and displays them in a web dashboard.
• Brings organisations better control and visibility over their web services.
• Enforces security policies and other operation rules.
• Provides IT operations staff with real-time visibility into the health, performance, security and utilisation of crucial web services.
• Provides centralised monitoring of both perimeter and internal operations from a single console.
• Allows customers to build and manage both firewall and web service policies with a single tool.
• Is simple to deploy.
• Is easy to configure and administer using browser-based tools.
• Supports multiple and flexible deployment models.
• Supports clustering of server components for high availability and scalability.
• Supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) for interoperability between different security systems.
• Monitors authentication and authorisation for all services.
• Monitors business process flows end-to-end.
• Allows administrators to easily view and track Web service dependencies.

This solution addresses Web services security with an innovative, standards-based solution which allows organisations worldwide to actively deploy Web services, both in intranet and extranet environments. Web services offer many advantages over current alternatives although they still present key challenges, especially in terms of security, which need addressing.

TransactionMinder® provides:

• Secure access to Web services by inspecting the security information contained in the XML documents submitted by Web service consumers.
• Centralised security policies bound to user identities for authentication, authorisation, federation, session management and audit.
• Delegated Administration.
• Secure Single Sign-On.
• Synchronised Session Management.
• Federated Identity.