DataPower Integrates RSA Federated Identity Manager

["Kevin Anderson" <kevina@datapower.com>]

DataPower Integrates RSA Federated Identity Manager(r) and Achieves
Certification from RSA Security

Broad Strategic Partnership Fast Tracks Technical Work, Certified
Integration & Production Deployments for Federating Identity across Web
Service Domains

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - January 24, 2005 - DataPower, the original creator
and leading provider of intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN)
infrastructure, today announced that the DataPower XS40 XML Security
Gateway(tm) is certified interoperable with RSA(r) Federated Identity
Manager (FIM).  This completes DataPower's certification across RSA's
complete enterprise product portfolio including RSA SecurID(r)
authentication technology, RSA ClearTrust(r) web access management
software and RSA Keon(r) digital certificate management software and
extends DataPower's enterprise-grade XML Web service security, further
advancing DataPower's XS40 as the most secure XML security gateway. (See
associated news: "DataPower Joins RSA Secured(r) Partner Program to
Enable Secure XML For Web Services & Identity and Access Management")  

A live demonstration of DataPower's integration with RSA Security can be
seen in the RSA Security Booth #612 at the fourteenth annual RSA
Conference in San Francisco, February 14-18, 2005.

"The combination of DataPower's XS40 high performance web services
gateway and RSA Federated Identity Manager provides a scalable,
standards-based platform for delivering and managing secure web services
across business boundaries for both user-centric and service-centric
environments," said Toffer Winslow, director of identity & access
management solutions for RSA Security.  "RSA Secured(r) certification
offers our mutual customers the peace-of-mind that the DataPower XS40
web services gateway is fully compatible and interoperable with RSA
Federated Identity Manager and RSA Security's comprehensive portfolio of
secure identity & access management solutions, including technologies
providing strong authentication, authorization and certificate authority
management."

Bill Tao, VP, Engineering at DataPower added, "DataPower is seeing
tremendous demand for sharing and enforcing policies for trusted
identities across Web service boundaries - with business partners,
autonomous business units and remote offices.  This certification
continues to ensure that joint customers for DataPower and RSA Security
achieve the most comprehensive XML Web services security that can be
deployed quickly while leveraging existing, best-of-breed security
infrastructure for identity and access management."

Today's news, along with being the only XML Web services security
gateway vendor to team with OASIS & the U.S. General Service
Administration E-Gov E-Authentication Initiative to demonstrate
interoperability of SAML; and the only Web services security gateway
vendor to successfully pass important SAML conformance testing (See:
Ping Identity Certifies DataPower's SAML-based Federated Identity
Implementation); and its leading real-world enterprise Web service
deployments with SAML (See: DataPower First to Demonstrate Real-World
Deployments of Hardware-Based Federated Identity Management Enforcement
Point Using WS-Security and SAML), showcases DataPower's rich history
and leading support for Federated Identity enforcement across enterprise
Web service domains.

XS40 XML Security Gateway's AAA Framework
DataPower's powerful Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing (AAA)
Framework allows the XS40 XML Security Gateway to use a broad variety of
methods for extracting user passwords, security tokens and other
identity information from incoming requests. Authentication and
authorization steps are also fully modular and can be based on either
on-board or off-board repositories, and the Audit & Accounting
processing is fully extensible. This unique framework enables
DataPower's leading industry integration with identity management
solutions, including those from RSA Security, Computer Associates &
Netegrity, Oblix, IBM, Sun, and Microsoft - as well as allowing
customers to integrated proprietary, in-house Single Sign On (SSO)
systems with their Web services security architecture.
The XS40 XML Security Gateway is purpose-built by some of the world's
top XML and security experts to secure XML Web Services transactions and
designed to help enterprises overcome the two critical barriers for
deploying XML Web services: security risks and performance bottlenecks.
The XS40 is a true network hardware device that serves as a secure XML
Web services proxy and access policy enforcement point in front of the
application servers.  Additionally, the XS40 delivers hardened security
and wirespeed performance using sophisticated, patented algorithms for
XML firewall, XDoS protection; SOAP filtering; access control; XML
schema validation; field-level digital signatures and XML encryption;
XML routing; service virtualization; SAML-based federated identity
management.; provides support for critical Web services standards like
WS-Security, WS-Addressing, WS-SecureConversation, and other WS-*
specifications; and offers an award-winning, easy-to-use GUI.

About DataPower 
DataPower provides enterprises with intelligent XML-Aware network
infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and
manageability of next-generation applications and XML Web Services.
DataPower's patented XML Generation Three (XG3(tm)) technology powers
the industry's first wire-speed XML-aware networking devices that
provide immediate return on technology investments while streamlining
application deployments.  Founded in 1999, DataPower is privately held
and based in Cambridge, MA.  For more information about DataPower,
please contact 617-864-0455 or visit www.datapower.com.

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For more information please contact:
							
Kevin M Anderson			
DataPower
617-864-0455 x360
kevina@datapower.com