Alcatel Carrier Internetworking Solutions OmniAccess 8550 manual Feature group, Benefit

Feature group	Benefit	Feature	Feature description
		Application sessions	Stateful model for Web service run-time policy
		Stateful run-time policy enforce-	Run-time policy enforced across multiple transactions per credentialed user
	Ensures compliance	ment
Security
	with corporate		Consolidated audit trail capturing each information record viewed or modified
&		User-centric audit trail
	governance policy and		per credentialed user, encrypted and signed to survive legal audit
governance
	government legislation
		Application access control	Stateful policy enforcement on access to individual Web services
		Information access control	Stateful policy enforcement on access to individual information records
		Partner authentication	Strong authentication for partner institutions (X509, XKMS, RSA, 3DES, DES,
			AES, SHA, PKCS, CRLs, OCSP)
	Enhanced security	Service virtualization	Map external URL used by partners to private internal URL
Secure online	through single point of	Secured proxy point	Stateful policy enforcement with cross-referenced audit on all partner activi-
			ty
	control to enable secure
B2B
	automated workflow	Data protection	Data encryption and digital signing to survive legal audit
	among business partners
		User mobility	Enables end users to seamlessly connect to web services at any partner site
		Multiple partner groups	Allows web services to be offered to distinct partner groups
			Dynamic identity translation allowing access to multiple IT
Identity	Consistent enterprise-	Single identity	systems with single credential for corporate-wide consistent policy enforce-
			ment
mapping	wide enforcement	Identity interoperability	Enables acceptance of user validations from partners while meeting all
&	of policy per
			traceability and user privacy requirements (SAML, WS-Trust)
federation	credentialed user
		Integration with existing identity	Integrates with existing identity management infrastructure (LDAP, SAML,
		infrastructure	WS-Trust)
		Application interoperability	Provides mediation through message and content translations for applica-
	Enables scaleable and		tions (XSLT)
Corporate
			Provides round robin load balancing with session stickiness and automatic
	reliable re-use	Web service load balancing
agility			failover
	of existing IT systems
		Reliable messaging	Provides policy-controlled, guaranteed delivery of web service messages
		XML message validation	Ensures all messages are well formed
Threat protection	Protects from
		XML message control	SQL Injection, Recursive Payload, Oversized Payload, Buffer Overflow,
&	deliberate attacks and		External Entity Attacks, Oversize Attachments, Cross Site Scripting
XML firewall	malicious XML messages
		Denial of service (DoS)	Prevents DoS attacks focused at web services, replay attacks
		protection
	Easily managed appliance	Fault management	SNMP reporting to enterprise network management platforms
Management	integrating with existing	Configuration management	Provides Web-based GUI interface with role based management control
	management
			Enforces policy and configuration privileges by role and provides audit of all
	platforms	Change management
			policy and configuration changes
		High availability	Provides automatic stateful failover for paired nodes
		Open standards compliant	Compliance with Web services standards W3C, SOAP, UDDI, WS-Policy,
Secure hardware	Hardened appliance to		WS-Trust, WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Addressing
accelerated	comply with		No direct operating system access - encrypted hard drive - no internal
appliance	security standards	Secured appliance	devices allow for alternate re-boot of system - all ports disabled -
			configuration files digitally locked.
		Dedicated Web services	Hardware accelerated XML parsing & encryption with digital signing & SSL
		infrastructure	& HTTPS

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