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Candle Expands Security Offering
For IBM WebSphere MQ
Candle Corporation, a leading enterprise infrastructure management
provider,
introduced PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ, a solution that expands the
protection of sensitive information across the WebSphere MQ middleware
environment. PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ combines Candle's security and
management solutions for WebSphere MQ with leading encryption technologies
from RSA Security Inc. to provide a powerful security solution that also
simplifies the security management process.
PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ helps organizations meet increasingly
stringent security requirements for the financial services, healthcare and
other industries. Securing enterprise middleware is critical as organizations
rely on Web-based transactions such as online banking for daily business
operations. The new solution -- which builds on award-winning technology from
Candle's MQSecure offering -- enables users to implement additional
application security features to minimize risk of exposure.
"The middleware layer is often overlooked when protecting a business, which
can create an Achilles' heel in a security infrastructure," said Mark Ehr,
senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. "Solutions such as
Candle's PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ provide needed security and
management flexibility to enable organizations to maintain a high level of
information assurance across an enterprise and between partners."
PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ provides features and benefits that
include:
- Increased authentication verifies the identities of message senders and
recipients, providing users with the added assurance of communicating with
trusted partners
- Full Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) support strengthens security while
providing users with added flexibility when using encrypted messaging
- An expanded ability to validate that data transmissions and message
archives have not been altered is critical for auditing requirements
"Many organizations do not take full advantage of their security solutions
because they are often too complex and cumbersome to manage effectively," said
Jay H. Lang, chief technologist, Distributed Computing Professionals Inc.
"PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ is easy to install and use to develop custom
programs and manage across the enterprise. It is also reasonably priced for
distributed platforms."
PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ supplements the user authorization
capabilities of various external security programs, such as RACF, ACF2 and Top
Secret on OS/390, as well as operating system security tools for UNIX and
Windows systems.
"The current business climate and a variety of federal security
requirements
are leading enterprises to invest in increased security and end- to-end
verification of message transmissions," said Victor Chang, vice president,
developer solutions division at RSA Security. "We are pleased to support
Candle's delivery of high-level protection for the WebSphere MQ environment
and help enable users to seamlessly extend information assurance across the
enterprise."
New Features Enhance and Streamline Security
PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ increases the protection of data and
streamlines security management through these enhancements:
- Full PKI Support: Empowers organizations to use software from any
certificate or registration authority provider to generate RSA Security key
pairs. Users streamline and simplify the encryption management process by
exporting the software into the PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ key management
infrastructure
- Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Support: Enables users to
conduct a certificate "background check" by an independent third party before
accepting a certificate. Users can accelerate the revocation status of
certificates by connecting directly to an OCSP responder
- Message-Embedded Digital Certificates: Provide simplified and expedited
certificate verification. The technology also provides added credentials to a
certificate to make messages more secure
- Auditability Enhancements: Enable organizations to nonrepudiate, or
verify, that messages have not been altered during either the transmission or
archive process. The ability to audit data transmissions enables
organizations to comply with federal regulations such as the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and similar rules in the financial
services sector and other industries
"Organizations continually balance the need to protect sensitive data by
establishing multiple checkpoints across an enterprise with the business
requirement to quickly guarantee the integrity of all transactions among
partners," said David Caddis, vice president, Application Infrastructure
Management Group, Candle Corporation. "PathWAI Secure for WebSphere MQ
provides a new level of security for IBM's market-leading middleware by
providing encryption while also reducing the complexity of managing the
security of enterprise middleware environments."
Market Leadership
Candle's new security offering extends its PathWAI modular suite of best-
in-
class solutions. Businesses leverage PathWAI to rapidly architect, develop,
deploy, secure and manage their WebSphere infrastructures. With a proven track
record of more than 2,000 successful WebSphere customer implementations,
Candle is uniquely positioned to provide security and management solutions for
IBM middleware environments. Further, leading industry analyst agencies --
including Gartner Inc., META Group Inc. and WinterGreen Research -- cite
Candle as the WebSphere management tools leader.
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