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Reactivity Scores High With Thomson Prometric

In the latest example of its broad market acceptance, Reactivity Inc announced Thomson Prometric has selected Reactivity's system to rapidly deploy and maintain secure XML Web services connections internally to its global testing centers and to its customers and partners. After an exhaustive, competitive evaluation process, Thomson Prometric concluded that Reactivity's is the most powerful, configurable and manageable secure deployment solution for the rollout of Thomson Prometric's national and global Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Known for its innovation and its continuing efforts to apply leading-edge technologies to drive the success of its business, Thomson Prometric selected the Reactivity XML Firewall, the Reactivity Management Console and the Reactivity Gateway-D to securely deploy its SOA. By implementing an SOA, Thomson Prometric gains the greatest amount of reuse, flexibility and security across applications to use for internal consumption, consumption by the testing centers, and by their customers and partners. Reactivity is accelerating the time-to-market of Thomson Prometric's secure SOA, enabling it to generate revenues from centers and new partners more quickly and securely than before.

"In any Service Oriented Architecture exposing Web services for production use, it is vitally important to have secure gateway appliances performing XML content inspection, enforcing enterprise security policy, and delivering any-to-any interoperability, while being easily managed by operations staff," said Christopher Crowhurst, Thomson Prometric vice president of enterprise architecture. "Reactivity's products, combined with their wealth of experience and knowledge of SOA deployment challenges -- including XML threats, visibility requirements and interoperability challenges -- provide Thomson Prometric with a high performance, secure and robust deployment solution to SOA edge protection."

Given the sensitive nature of their customers' testing-related information, Reactivity's robust support for privacy standards such as SAML, XML-Encryption and XML-Digital Signatures was crucial, according to Crowhurst. The Reactivity XML Firewall and other technologies give Thomson Prometric the secure infrastructure they need to be able to deliver on privacy commitments to their customers.

"Reactivity's proven ability to provide rapid and secure Web services connections with partners on diverse platforms, transports and with varied security practices will enable Thomson Prometric to integrate diverse new offerings in weeks instead of months," said Glenn Osaka, CEO and president of Reactivity. "By working in conjunction with the other technologies already in place, Reactivity has enabled Thomson Prometric to build a solution that works for today and scales for the future."

The Reactivity XML Firewall enforces XML Web services security policies and offers the market's leading XML threat defense, while delivering any-to-any XML Web services interoperability. The centralized definition, enforcement and management of security and operational policies establish new levels of trust among applications and help ensure compliance with privacy and data protection laws. Reactivity's dedicated appliances process and secure XML and SOAP messages to improve network and application throughput, and enable Thomson Prometric's existing operations staff to operate and maintain clusters of appliances across geographically distributed data centers for maximum operational scalability.

The Reactivity XML Firewall is an XML proxy that processes bi-directional message flow while performing all protocol and transport mediation, defending against XML attacks, ensuring trusted transactions are correctly validated and routed, and providing a signed, auditable record of messages and events. The Reactivity Management Console enables diverse professionals to define policies and monitor enforcement. This integrated system ensures that Reactivity's customers accelerate speed to market for their initiatives. The Reactivity Gateway-D provides developers and testers with a desktop appliance that enables them to use Reactivity's full functionality within minutes in their local environment.