Intel SOA Expressway - Security Gateway - Benefits



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Intel SOA Expressway: Effectively Managing Your Web Application Firewall and HTTPS Security Requirements

As a comprehensive security gateway with application firewall capabilities, Intel SOA Expressway offers a wide range
of benefits that are outlined in the table below:


Intel SOA Expressway Usage Model

Benefits Provided

Cloud Gateway

Deliver hybrid cloud security with API mediation, token exchange and federated ID. Secure data in-flight and data-at-rest, enabling your integrated governance requirements. Functions as a Web Application Firewall (WAF). For more information, click here.

Web Services Security

Enables SOA Architecture, utilizing any protocol with any identity system on any service container. Virtualize any non-SOA environment. For more information, click here.

REST Security

Provides enforcement point for REST web services messages and can delegate authentication and authorization to identity management and PKI systems, such as Active Directory and CA Siteminder. Offers secure point of entry to fend off denial of service threats, code injection, and other malicious traffic. For more information, click here.

SOA Governance Policy Enforcement

Delivers full runtime governance environment able to enforce policies designed in SOA repository solutions, based on standards such WS-SecurityPolicy and WS-Policy. Provides policy enrichment capability to add policy artifacts not yet supported by such standards. Includes rich monitoring capability that can easily be integrated with the Security Information & Event Manager (SIEM) products or other monitoring solutions. For more information, click here.

ESB Security Offload

Enables services to be composed for sets of ESBs deployed across different domains, by adding cross-domain service mediation, threat prevention, security policy enforcement and AAA functions. Generally used for shorter-running transactions. For more information, click here.



Visit our companion dynamic perimeter site for additional information on:

Comprehensive Gateway Security

Cross Domain Security

Information Assurance & Security

For additional details about the capabilities presented above, please consult the following:

Additional Information

· Evaluation: "PushToTest Independent Performance Assessment of Expressway"

· Evaluation: "OVUM Butler Group Intel® SOA Expressway Technology Audit"

· White Paper: "Taking Control of the Cloud for your Enterprise"

· White Paper: "An Open Policy Framework for Cross-vendor Integrated Governance"

· White Paper: "XML Threat Model for REST, SOA and Web 2.0"

Should you require further information, please contact us.

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