DataPower's Industry Leading XML Security Gateway Pulls Further Ahead in Web Services Security & Advanced WS- Support for the Global 1000 with 3.2 Release

Business Wire, May 16, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Already Established as the Top-Rated XML Security

Product, New Firmware Advances Even Further with the Most Mature Combination of High-End Security Features & Ease of Use

DataPower(R), the most widely deployed provider of application-oriented networking hardware, announced today the availability of its firmware release v3.2 for its DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway(TM)(http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html). Shipping for over two-and-a-half years, the XS40 is the most highly decorated XML Web services security gateway recognized as the most flexible, easy to use, enterprise-class solution with leading enterprises and government agencies.

Earlier last week, a previous version of the DataPower XML Security Gateway received Network Computing's prestigious Well-Connected "Editor's Choice Award" after coming out ahead in a roundup testing of XML firewalls. (See: Validation for DataPower's XML-aware Networking Leadership Continues with Second Network Computing "Well-Connected" Award (http://www.datapower.com/newsroom/pr_050405_nwc_wca_2005.html)). In 2004, Forrester Research noted that DataPower has strong integration for security and management, and the strongest overall current feature set. And InfoWorld, after its own competitive analysis, declared the XS40 the winner.

Earl Perkins, Vice President, Security & Privacy, at Gartner noted, "More organizations are evaluating security requirements that go with a changing view to the way they consume services, either by building Web services solutions or acquiring service oriented architecture-based solutions. Those security requirements must have at a minimum XML threat protection, service level monitoring and federated access control enforcement to be truly effective."

Informed by DataPower's years of in-production experience with mission-critical XML Web service security deployments at Global 1000 firms and numerous government agencies, firmware release v3.2 for the XS40 XML Security Gateway represents even further security and ease of use advancements for this already top-rated product, including:

--WS-Trust support -DataPower is the first XML-aware network device to long support advanced WS-*standards and specifications. With v.3.2 DataPower is the first XML security vendor to feature WS-Trust support. With WS-Trust, DataPower's XS40 utilizes extensions to WS-Security for issuing, exchanging and enforcing security tokens and establishing trust relationships in Web service transactions within different trust domains in conjunction with other general Web Services frameworks including WSDL, UDDI and SOAP.

--Government-grade XML Threat Protection - Developed based on work with DataPower's many defense and intelligence community customers, the enhanced XML threat protection features provide the industry's most mature protection against malicious XML, rogue attachments and viruses. In cases where human intervention is required, smart UI wizards present easy-to-understand choices to the security administrator, reducing the risk of breach to operator error. (To learn more about DataPower's work with federal and local agencies, see: "DataPower Brings Application-oriented Networking to Government Sector" (http://www.datapower.com/newsroom/pr_041105_gov.html))

--Service Level Management - Enhanced service level monitoring and management features ensure reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) of mission-critical web services secured by the XS40. This new suite of SLM features makes it easier to define and enforce service levels, such as request rate or latency, based on the connecting web service client and the specific back-end service.

--Certified SAML 2.0 Support - In addition to being the only web services security device to deliver independently tested and certified support for SAML access control and federated identity management. (See: "Ping Identity Certifies DataPower's SAML-based Federated Identity Implementation" (http://www.datapower.com/newsroom/pr_011205_pingid.htmlf)), the latest release adds support for SAML 2.0. The XS40 is the first in its class to add support for this essential specification, and the only one to pass independent interoperability tests. (See: "DataPower XS40 Hardware Validated for Federated Identity and XML Web Services Security at SAML Interoperability Lab at RSA 2005" http://www.datapower.com/newsroom/pr_022105_saml.html)).

Powered by DataPower's patented wirespeed XML processing technology, the XS40 XML Security Gateway is a member of DataPower's application-oriented networking product family, which includes the XA35 XML Accelerator (http://www.datapower.com/solutions/xa35.html), the XI50 XML Integration Appliance (http://www.datapower.com/products/xi50.html) and the XG4 XML Chipset (http://www.datapower.com/solutions/xg4.html) for OEMs. The XS40 XML Security Gateway combines hardened security, wirespeed performance and sophisticated, patent-pending algorithms for XML threat protection and access management, including XML firewall, XDoS protection, SOAP filtering, fine-grained access control, XML schema validation, digital signatures, field-level XML encryption, XML/SOAP routing and service virtualization.