SENTRY » Messaging, Identity, and Security
In the extended enterprise, the boundaries of partners are blurred with closer coordination of design, development and marketing activities giving way to stable collaborative relationships. Service-Oriented Architectures and XML Web services are allowing enterprises to dynamically integrate their business processes and IT systems using open standards-based specifications. Forum Systems Sentry provides the foundation infrastructure that drives a return on investment by enabling secure XML and Web services communications for mission critical applications.
FORUM SENTRY XML 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




