Layer 7 Technologies and Novell Team to Provide Identity Driven Security for XML Web Services

Business Wire, March 17, 2008

Joint Go to Market Offering to Provide Best of Breed Web Services Security

SALT LAKE CITY -- Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Service Oriented integration architectures, today announced a go-to-market partnership with Novell to secure programmatic Web services, leveraging Novell eDirectory and Novell Access Manager identity solutions.

Under the terms of the agreement Layer 7 will become a preferred partner joining Novell's identity and security management partner ecosystem to help address Web services security. End-users will benefit from an integrated best of breed approach to Web and Web services security.

"As more enterprises and commercial Web sites expose their business systems through programmatic APIs, new security will be required that can protect the service interfaces and message level communication across disparate systems," said Nick Nikols, Vice President of Product Management, Identity and Security at Novell. "Being able to leverage a shared identity infrastructure ensures that customers can secure their next generation Web services in a rigorous and compliant way."

"Identity is at the heart of strong Web services security and governance," said Dimitri Sirota, Vice President Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7. "Layer 7 and Novell customers can now benefit from an integrated framework for Web and Web services security."

For those attending the BrainShare 2008 Conference in Salt Lake City, you can learn more about Layer7's SecureSpan Gateways by visiting Layer 7 at booth # 906. To schedule a one-on-one with a Layer 7 representative, please contact Cerys Goodall at cgoodall@highroad.com or 613-688-1184.

About Layer 7 Technologies

Layer 7 Technologies is a leading provider of XML security and networking infrastructure for next generation service oriented and Web oriented integrations. The SecureSpan family of XML appliances and gateway software address the security, complexity, performance and networking issues associated with deploying and maintaining production Web services. To learn more please visit www.layer7tech.com.

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