ACCESS CONTROL: WHERE IT STARTED, HOW IT’S EVOLVED
First Point Global began with the implementation of access control systems that gave programmers the ability to enforce access control policies across the enterprise. Now, our work in access control has evolved to encompass single sign-on, federated access control, and SOA security and governance, ensuring that organizations have the same degree of control in today’s expanded service-oriented, and cloud environments. Today the XACML standard allows the externalisation of authorisation to massive new scale; for an enterprise, or a collaboration of enterprises, customers and the public.
TAKING SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE WHERE BUSINESS THRIVES
Increasingly, service oriented architectures (SOAs) are transforming how IT supports business goals – with distributed, loosely coupled services that can be easily deployed, dismantled and reused as business requirements change. That’s the good news. It may be a challenge to govern security policy adherence across services that span security and identity domains. But it can be done with a strong SOA security and governance framework, in which policy can be consistently defined, managed and provisioned across web services.
FEDERATED ACCESS MANAGEMENT: BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
The possibilities for partnership among companies are unprecedented when multiple companies can share access through a single point. That’s what cloud computing and SaaS are all about. As opportunities for businesses to collaborate emerge, First Point Global is there to help establish policy-driven secure access for customer to business and business to business scenarios, with deployments based on technologies like IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, Sun OpenSSO and ForgeRock's OpenAM.
PARTNERING WITH THE LEADER IN SOA SECURITY: LAYER 7 TECHNOLOGIES
Layer 7 delivers SOA security and governance to leading insurance, banking, telecom and government organizations in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Layer7 solutions help organizations address their security, visibility and governance challenges by letting them adapt, monitor and control their web services, no matter where they originate – in the enterprise or in the cloud.
