SENTRY » Cloud Integration
Cloud computing has become a core aspect of enterprise IT strategy with companies utilizing both private and public clouds for rapid scalability and cost reduction. Security, Reliability and Manageability are essential tenants of robust cloud integration. Forum Sentry Cloud Gateway is the only product in the industry with native integration for a variety of Cloud providers. As the pioneer in XML Gateways with the only patented product in the industry, Forum Sentry provides a gateway for establishing security, reliability and ease of management between datacenters and cloud providers. The Forum Systems Sentry™ provides a robust mechanism for enterprises to secure and scale their cloud deployments with a keen focus on reliability.
Through sophisticated Cloud Policies IT Professionals can manage a number of prominent IaaS providers right from the Forum Sentry Administrative console. Forum Sentry provides native Integration with IaaS vendors including Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Opsource, VMWare, MS Azure and VMware.
Once authenticated to the Cloud Provider management API, Forum Sentry can dynamically control image instantiation, shutdown and scaling activities based on traffic patterns and loading characteristics. A GoGrid instance started by Forum Sentry Cloud Gateway is shown below.
FORUM SENTRY CLOUD GATEWAY
SECURE SOAP, XML, REST, and HTTP
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Sentry » Appliance
Forum Systems Sentry allows enterprises to achieve a higher return on investment by implementing secure, scalable service-oriented architectures and event-driven applications. Our rack mount appliance offers 64-bit multiprocessor with crypto accelerator and optional FIPS Level III HSM.
Forum Systems Sentry features include:
SECURE WEB SERVICES COMMUNICATIONS
- Web Services Mediation and Virtualization
- Cryptographic accelerated Signature, Encrpytion and SSL security
- Native Protocol support for HTTP, Tibco EMS, IBM MQ, JMS, FTP, SMTP
- Stateful Request and Response message processing
AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION
- HTTP Basic Authentication
- SSL X.509 Certificate Authentication
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- WS-Security (User Name Token, X.509 Certificates and SAML)
- Vendor Identity Plug-ins
- Network and WSDL message level Access Control
DATA-LEVEL SECURITY POLICIES
- WSDL Operation and URI filtering
- Content filtering using XPath and regular expressions
- Digital Signatures and Encryption
- Composite Schema Validation
- Antivirus attachment scanning
XML WEB SERVICES SPECIFICATIONS
- WSDL, SOAP, XML, XSLT, XSD Schema,DTD, XPath, UDDI
- XML Digital Signature, XML Encryption, WS-Encryption, WS-Digital Signature
- WS-Trust, WS-Policy
- WS-I Basic Profile
- WS-Security Token Profiles
- PKCS, CRL, XKMS
Sentry » Software
Forum Systems Sentry is also avaliable in software form factor for Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. The feature set is the same as that of the appliance form factor with the exception of FIPS hardended key storage and hardware based cryptographic acceleration for signature, encryption, and SSL.
Sentry software features include:
SECURE WEB SERVICES COMMUNICATIONS
- Web Services Mediation and Virtualization
- Cryptographic accelerated Signature, Encrpytion and SSL security
- HTTP, HTTPs, Tibco EMS, IBM Websphere MQ, JMS, SMTP
- Stateful Request and Response message processing
AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION
- HTTP Basic Authentication
- SSL X.509 Certificate Authentication
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- WS-Security (User Name Token, X.509 Certificates and SAML)
- Vendor Identity Plug-ins
- Network and WSDL message level Access Control
DATA-LEVEL SECURITY POLICIES
- WSDL Operation and URI filtering
- Content filtering using XPath and regular expressions
- Digital Signatures and Encryption
- Composite Schema Validation
- Antivirus attachment scanning
XML WEB SERVICES SPECIFICATIONS
- WSDL, SOAP, XML, XSLT , XSD Schema, DTD, XPath, UDDI
- XML Digital Signature, XML Encryption, WS-Encryption, WS-Digital Signature
- WS-I Basic Profile
- WS-Security Token Profiles
- PKCS, CRL, XKMS
