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Oblix Delivers Next Generation Of Web Services Management

Oblix, a developer of identity-based security solutions, announced Oblix COREsv 4, which solidifies the position of COREsv as the market's only solution for policy creation, execution and monitoring across any internal or external Web Services. COREsv 4 is also the first Web Services security and management solution to offer out-of-the-box integration with existing identity management and EAI infrastructures.

"Customers facing an increasingly distributed and dynamic environment based on Web Services are recognizing not only that they need to ensure high levels of security, but also that they need separate points for policy management and policy enforcement," said Anne Thomas Manes, research director of application platform strategies at Burton Group. "Companies need Web Services management solutions that make their connected business applications comply with IT best practices and avoid the cost and risk of unmanaged distributed application environments."

COREsv 4, the first release following Oblix's February 2004 acquisition of Confluent Software, Inc., advances the integration of Web Services management and identity management, moving Oblix closer to its ultimate goal of securing and managing all business interactions in the decentralized Web environment. Oblix has added pre-built policy steps for the Oblix COREid(R) Access System, essentially pull-down menus via which the system can invoke COREid (or other access environments) to call into the user identity and access store and engage authentication and authorization checks. With version 4, Oblix has also significantly improved the throughput of COREsv, increased its usability and scalability, and made improvements to basic administration capabilities.

In addition to managing most Web Services, COREsv can now provide additional management and security for application integration over TIBCO BusinessWorks via a new agent. Customers may use the same policy definition and monitoring infrastructure for both Web Services and business processes implemented using TIBCO BusinessWorks, resulting in improved security and regulatory compliance -- a particular challenge as the number of deployed Web Services grows in an organization.

COREsv provides customers with a flexible and non-intrusive policy enforcement framework that can be used for consistent enforcement of policies in complex enterprise environments that have many distributed services interacting over a variety of transport protocols. By centrally defining and deploying operational policies and rules across the entire service network, customers can consistently implement and actively enforce IT policies and best practices without affecting existing business applications and while dramatically reducing the deployment and maintenance costs of managing distributed environments.

"Organizations deploying Web Services in large scale are facing unprecedented security and management issues," said Ken Sims, vice president of marketing and business development for Oblix. "Oblix is enabling customers to increase control and visibility while delivering new Web Services quickly by leveraging a central policy management infrastructure. With the advanced features in COREsv 4, organizations can increase application security, leverage existing IT investments in identity management and EAI, and improve agility and governance."