Monday, April 25, 2011

Network Computing: SOA Security = XML + WAF

WAFs are well designed for protecting static HTML traffic, however, with the wide proliferation of SOA and the reuse of SOA-based components in dynamic web portals, significant XML, JSON and other non-HTML traffic is now generated from portals.  Handling security for sophisticated web portals requires functionality beyond that available in Legacy Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).

Network computing recently published a review of the industry-first integrated WAF + XML appliance, Forum Sentry WAF:

Forum Systems Integrates XML Gateway, Web Application Firewall On Single Appliance