Intel® Expressway Service Gateway - Use Cases - ESB Security



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Security Gateway Use Case: ESB Security Offload


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Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Deployment Today

Frequently, enterprises deploy ESBs for service mediation within a specific domain. This is typically the case when they've invested in a stack vendor suite for mainframe data integration, enterprise data integration or longer-running transactions. As organizations attempt to share services in a scalable way across their domains, SOA ESBs can experience security and performance gaps. Typical work-arounds can lead to overly-complex deployments of multiple stack vendor services that don't interoperate with other best-of-breed infrastructure.

Our service gateway enables services to be composed for sets of ESBs that are deployed across different domains. By doing so, capabilities like cross-domain service mediation, threat prevention, security policy enforcement and AAA functions are added. They are generally utilized for shorter-running transactions.

Intel's Comprehensive Gateway Security

The Intel Expressway Service Gateway simplifies deployment of cross-domain integration projects, by leveraging a soft-appliance form factor that makes development, deployment and management more convenient. Our unique solution combines sophisticated BPEL-based visual workflow designer (not found in ESBs) with an appliance run-time security enforcement framework. Due to its appliance-like management, security-oriented design, stateless processing and extremely high performance, Intel SOA Expressway is frequently utilized as a cross-domain ESB, or as a Gateway co-processor in front of an ESB.

ESB capabilities addressed by Intel Expressway Service Gateway include:

  • Security management
  • Data routing
  • Data transformation
  • Protocol transformation
  • Service name mapping
  • Synchronous & Asynchronous Message processing
  • Transaction management
  • Coordination of implementation services (commonly known as "service orchestration")

Visit our companion dynamic perimeter site for additional information on:

Policy Enforcement

Service Mediation

Threat Prevention

Additional Information

For further information, please click on the links below:

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

· Intel® Digital White Board: 8 SOA Soft-appliance Usage Scenarios

If you have any questions, please contact us.