[announce] OASIS Member news: DataPower Binds Vertical FS Standards to Web Service Security

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

DATAPOWER FIRST TO LAUNCH FINANCIAL SERVICES PROGRAM BINDING VERTICAL
STANDARDS TO XML WEB SERVICES SECURITY 

Based on Real-World Production Deployments within Leading Financial Services
Corporations, New Program Offers "No Custom-coding, Snap-in" XML Web
Services Security for XBRL, MDDL, or FIXML Standard-based Applications

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 3, 2004 - DataPower Technology, Inc., the
creators of intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN) infrastructure, announced
today a new program that addresses the need to bind specific, XML-based
vertical industry standards to more general standards that are essential for
any Web service deployment.  DataPower's program provides Financial Services
companies a solution for "Snap-In" XML Web Service security that is
transparent to existing applications and easy to deploy by offering a
starter-kit of pre-built DataPower XS40 XML security gateway policies that
bind today's critical vertical standards, like Market Data Definition
Language (MDDL) for the interchange of information to trade financial
instruments of the world's markets, to "horizontal" Web services standards,
like WS-Security that is critical for message integrity, confidentiality,
and authentication within a Web service.  Based on real-world deployments
within the Financial Services marketplace that includes The Principal
Financial Group, GFKL, RouteOne and a number of leading Fortune 100 Bank and
Securities firms yet to be announced, DataPower's Financial Services program
is the first of its kind and continues DataPower's longstanding results for
the pragmatic adoption of XML Web services.

With customers like The Principal Financial Group, RouteOne, GFKL and a
number of Fortune 100 banks and insurance firms, DataPower has been a key
piece of infrastructure in web services deployments in financial services
since 1999. The DataPower device can rapidly bind financial services XML
applications to horizontal web services security standards, resulting in a
rapid, highly secure web services deployment with lower operational
complexity and management costs. This combination is well suited to the
risk-averse financial services market with the end result of simplifying
development efforts and rapidly improving time to market of sensitive,
complex transactions using web services. 

"The use of vertical XML standards in financial services is on the rise.
However, for XML standards such as MDDL, XBRL, RIXML to achieve widespread
adoption, robust security for privacy, non-repudiation, trust and message
integrity will be critical," said Mary Knox, principle analyst, Financial
Services at Gartner.  "Horizontal Web services standards like WS-Security,
XML Encryption, XML Digital Signatures and SAML are all key enablers to the
increased use of XML in financial services."

"DataPower used their XML-based policies to rapidly integrate Web service
security into eReinsure messages transmitting data between the eReinsure
reinsurance platform and one of our major insurance industry customers,"
said Dave Hersom, CTO at eReinsure.com.  "This method of applying horizontal
security to financial services applications is fast, flexible and scaleable.
We are excited to see this approach helping to simplify security issues that
might otherwise slow XML adoption in financial services." 

"In the last 2 years we've seen many organizations within all sectors of the
Financial Services industry take advantage of DataPower's XML-Aware network
devices ability to provide the most robust, easy to use security solution
for Web services without the need for additional custom coding. While
companies are developing the expertise for security standards like
WS-Security, XML encryption, XML digital signatures, and XML-based PKI and
access control, we take the burden off the developer for implementation."
said Eugene Kuznetsov, CTO and chairman at DataPower.  "As a result,
DataPower has created this first-of-its-kind Financial Services program that
binds today's vertical standards, being driven by numerous business and
regulatory demands, to the technology-driven standards and thereby ensure
rapid, interoperable and successful Web service deployments."
 
The program is offered to no charge to any financial services company.
Targeted at architects, developers, security officers and network
administrators, the program provides: 
*	Pre-built policies for "drop in" security for XBRL or MDDL messages
running through a DataPower device
*	Deployment scenarios on meshing the vertical XML standards with the
horizontal XML standards within the financial services industry
*	Case studies on companies that have successfully secured web service
implementations.
*	Whitepapers detailing how to recognize and mitigate the increased
operational and security exposure for network teams and security officers
*	Technical notes on integrating other enterprise consoles into an
overall management solution for web services
*	Technical notes on security web service standards WS-Security, SAML,
XML Encryption and XML Digital Signatures

DataPower will be demonstrating the DataPower XS40 for MDDL and Unicenter
WSDM, a drop-in security solution for financial market web services, at the
Computer Associates pavilion at "Web Services On Wall Street", Feb 3rd and
4th.  For more information on the DataPower Financial Services program, go
to:
www.datapower.com/programs/financialservices.html 




PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP DEPLOYS DATAPOWER XML-AWARE NETWORKING DEVICES 

DataPower XML Accelerator Cost Effectively Improves the Performance and
Scalability of the Principal Financial Group Web Infrastructure

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 2, 2004 - DataPower Technology, Inc., the
creators of intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN) infrastructure, announced
today that the Principal Financial Group - a leading global financial
institution offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a
wide range of financial products - has deployed the DataPower XML
accelerator hardware device. The Principal Financial Group has seen an
increasing use of XML within the enterprise and anticipated the need to
provide the capabilities of a wirespeed XML acceleration device to ensure
predictable application performance and reduce Java application server
resource utilization. After a review of the available products in this
space, Principal Financial Group selected DataPower.

"To deliver the quality performance and pricing levels our customers have
come to expect from The Principal, we have to have consistent performance at
peak load times. We chose to deploy DataPower because it gave us a dramatic
improvement in XML processing speed without having to make any significant
changes to our applications and existing infrastructure", said Steve
Armstrong, Assistant Director - IT at The Principal. 

The performance of the DataPower hardware device is significantly better
than any alternative solution and, with support for XML-based configurations
of polices and filter rulesets, provides a unique combination of
appliance-like ease-of-use and extreme flexibility for adapting to nascent
standards. Using DataPower XML acceleration as a key component of the web
architecture, future changes to XML processing can be implemented with
minimal time or cost. 

By using XML acceleration the Principal Financial Group is able to improve
application response times and ensure cost effective, predictable growth of
the system for the future. With the improved resource utilization The
Principal can maintain their reputation for excellent customer service. "The
stability, predictable performance and reduction in infrastructure costs
that comes with using XML aware network devices from DataPower will make
capacity planning an easier process for us. This will ensure that we
continue to give our customers the level of service they have come to expect
from the Principal Financial Group." said Armstrong.

 
About the Principal Financial Group
The Principal Financial Group(R) (The Principal (R))(1) is a leader in
offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of
financial products and services, including retirement and investment
services, life and health insurance and mortgage banking through its diverse
family of financial services companies. More employers choose the Principal
Financial Group for their 401(k) plans than any other bank, mutual fund, or
insurance company in the United States(2). A member of the Fortune 500, the
Principal Financial Group has $134.8 billion in assets under management(3)
and serves some 14.8 million customers worldwide from offices in Asia,
Australia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Principal Financial
Group, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol
PFG. For more information, visit www.principal.com.
(1) "The Principal Financial Group" and "The Principal" are registered
service marks of Principal Financial Services, Inc., a member of the
Principal Financial Group.
(2) CFO Magazine, April/May 2003, based on total plans served in 2002 by
insurance companies, banks and investment firms.
(3) As of September 30, 2003

About DataPower Technology 
DataPower Technology provides enterprises with intelligent XML-Aware network
(XAN) infrastructure to ensure unparalleled performance, security and
manageability of next-generation applications and XML Web Services.
DataPower's patent-pending 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 Technology, please
contact 617-864-0455 or visit www.datapower.com.

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