Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess™ 8550 Web Services Gateway (WSG) protects sensitive information from misuse satisfying regulatory compliance requirements and makes business process data available when and where it is needed. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG provides a corporate wide compliance infrastructure for secure automated business processes within a company and among its partner organizations. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG is a service oriented network appliance that reduces the traditional complexity and cost of securing internal corporate and business-to-business (B2B) automated business processes.
The OmniAccess 8550 WSG, based on theAlcatel-Lucent Web servicesrun-time message inspection technology,provides a scalable and reliable service oriented infrastructure for information system in such areas as human resour ces, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relatio nship manage ment (CRM ), and fin anc e with secu rit y and regu lato ry compliance (poli cy enforcement and audit trail) that is required for secure business process automation. It is deployable within data centers to secure business processes within an organization and in the DMZ for automa ting busines s processe s with partners. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG provides a significant competitive advantage by reducing IT system total cost of ownership (TCO).
Product Features
The deployment of an OmniAccess 8550 WSG provides corporate-wide security and regulatory compliance so organizations can secure automated business processes to meet increased government regulations and safely aut omate busi ness proc esse s with partners, creating a secure automated partner ecosystem.With the OmniAccess 8550 WSG securing business processes, highly skilled employees have access to information whenever they require it, even when at a partner site.
The OmniAccess8550WSG alsoprovides unique, stateful (multi -tran saction), run -tim e policy enforcem ent and consolidate d audit trai ls to ensure and demon strat e comp lia nce with government regulations (see Figure 1). The OmniAccess 8550 WSG also has the ability to mitiga te risk through
consistent policy enforcement across inf orm atio n system s with a user contextual knowledge of system events. To protect private data, the OmniAccess 8550 WSG provides information access and change control as well as data encryption with digital signatures. This enables a single digital identity within an organization that accepts authentication from trusted partners— the foundation for a cons olid ated corporate-wide access policy.
Sec ure B2B processe s are further enhanced by the OmniAccess 8550 WSG through security features such as the application firewall and auditing, tracking and control functions that can be used to monitor all partner activity, inclu ding acce ss to inform ation by partner employees when on-site.
