OASIS Member News: Sarvega Enhancements Improve XML Security and Performance

["Peter Borbely" <peter@sarvega.com>]

http://www.sarvega.com/press.php?pressID=286

Sarvega Enhancements Improve XML Security and Performance

Sarvega XML Guardian Gateway Acknowledged Leader for XML Security &
Price Performance 

Chicago, IL, May 23, 2005 - SarvegaT, Inc, the leader in XML Networking
solutions, today announced enhancements to the company's XML GuardianT
Gateway product, delivering XML Web Services security and performance
that is unmatched in the industry. Sarvega's XML Guardian now delivers
18% to 43% better performance, making it the industry leader across all
of Networking Computing's performance tests for XML Web Services
security. The Sarvega XML GuardianT Gateway has consistently
outperformed the market in XML Web Services threat mitigation and
performance. This leadership is highlighted by the technology editors of
CMP Media LLC's Network Computing in their XML Firewall Report dated May
3, 2005. With XML Guardian's enhancements, Sarvega increases its lead in
performance and threat mitigation, expands its support of Web Services
authentication and authorization, and makes it easy for enterprises to
configure complex security policies for large scale Web Services
implementations.

The Sarvega XML Guardian Gateway adds support for the WS-Trust
specification and IBM's Tivoli Access Manager for Authentication and
Authorization, increasing XML Guardian's ability to establish trust
amongst Web Services. WS-Trust defines the extensions to WS-Security for
issuing and exchanging security tokens and defines ways to establish and
access the presence of trust relationships. With WS-Trust support, the
XML Guardian ensures interoperability between the multiple formats used
by security tokens in a WS-Security transaction. It also provides trust
interoperability across different trust domains.  

With XML Guardian's robust signature and policy based protection,
Network Computing's Report rated the Sarvega XML Guardian Gateway the
top XML vulnerability protection product in the market. Sarvega
increases its lead in this area by adding the industry's only
anomaly-based XML Web Services vulnerability detection and protection
capability. 

Sarvega XML Guardian Gateway is deployed widely to secure enterprise and
government Web Services, including the largest single-site XML Firewall
implementation in the world. XML Guardian's overall performance and Web
Services protection are key reasons for its success. Another is its
configuration and policy management tool, the Sarvega Command Center.
This powerful, easy to use tool is based on the Eclipse framework. The
Sarvega Command Center offers WSDL-based automatic default policy
wizards that generate default policies with strong, built-in threat
mitigation. Sarvega Command Center's flexible framework offers
sophisticated visual security templates and makes it easy to change
security policies, simplifying Web Services security enforcement. It
also supports the deployment of security policies to multiple XML
Guardian Gateways in a simple, one-step operation. 

"While we are pleased with how well Network Computing rated XML
Guardian's security features and performance, including their
acknowledgement of Guardian's ability to provide the price-performance
and best protection for signature based and day-zero threats, Sarvega's
recent enhancements make XML Guardian an even better choice to protect
Web Services applications," said Girish Juneja, senior vice president of
product management for Sarvega. "And our recent enhancements in Web
Services security performance, XML Web Services threat mitigation, Web
Services trust enhancement, and simpler functional management extends
our leadership over all silicon-based competitors in the market. This
makes XML Guardian the best price-performance solution for enterprises
and governments." 

Sarvega XML GuardianT Gateway
The Sarvega XML GuardianT Gateway combines comprehensive security,
performance, and ease of use to deliver XML Firewall, Web Services trust
enablement and Web Services protection to Web Services and Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments. It provides the best protection
against "day-zero" XML threats with its ability to enable default
provisioning of security features and its signature-based and anomaly
based threat prevention. XML Guardian offers comprehensive Web Services
AAA Capability with interfaces to CA SiteMinder, LDAP, Microsoft Active
Directory, and Tivoli Access Manager. It provides complete support for
UNP Tokens, including username with digest passwords. XML Guardian
delivers industry leading support for fine-grained xDoS (XML Denial of
Service) Protection, SAML, cross-domain Credential Mapping, ebXML
Security, and high-performance transformation in a highly available
appliance that is certified as Tivoli Ready and CA Smart. 

Sarvega's XML Guardian Gateway is cited by Network Computing as the only
solution with the ability to handle complex, real-world security
policies at near-zero latency. It simplifies provisioning of both
inbound and outbound Web Services response security and provides
compliance checking on all outbound Web Services traffic. Guardian
Gateway is the only product to provide a real time snapshot of XML
Firewall operations and functions through its ability to offer real time
graphing. It is the only solution to embed a FIPS certified
cryptographic solution in addition to EAL 4+ Common Criteria
certification underway.

The Sarvega Command Center provides a simple visual drag-and-drop and
multi-unit management for security policy configuration, testing, and
deployment on one or many XML Guardian Gateway appliances.  With its
unique Automatic XPath Generator, the Sarvega Command Center is the only
management interface to enable policy provisioning with zero knowledge
of XPath.

About Sarvega
Sarvega, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of XML networking products,
providing enterprises with unprecedented security, performance, and ease
of operation for XML Web Services. Sarvega's underlying technology, the
XML Event Stream Operating System (XESOST, Patent Pending), combines
comprehensive XML security and XML routing functionality with wirespeed
performance, non-stop availability, and hardware platform independence.
Sarvega's XML networking products are available both as secure network
appliances and on multiple third party blade alternatives. Sarvega
introduced the industry's first wirespeed XML appliance, the first XML
content router, and the first XML grid computing solution. Sarvega's
worldwide customer base includes governments and leading companies in
Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Media and Entertainment.
Sarvega is the recipient of numerous technology awards for innovation,
including Computerworld's Innovative Technology Award, CMP Media's COMET
Award, Network Computing "Well Connected" Award finalist and has been
recognized as a "Cool vendor in Web Services" for its innovative and
impactful XML Web Services Security solution. For details, please visit
www.sarvega.com, send email to info@sarvega.com, or call 630-627-3131.


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Press Contact:

	Peter Borbely
	Sarvega
	(919) 345-5079
	peter@sarvega.com