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Layer 7 Intros First Identity Bridging Solution For Web Services

Layer 7 Technologies announced the availability of SecureSpan Bridge, the first cross-domain integration offering for Web services. SecureSpan Bridge provides enterprises with the first solution to dynamically connect client application with Web services across identity, security and middleware domains. SecureSpan Bridge interoperates with Layer 7's current XML firewall and policy manager offering, SecureSpan Gateway and SecureSpan Manager, to deliver an end-to-end security and connectivity solution for Web services.

"Connecting Web services across identity, security and middleware domains is an unaddressed problem," said Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director of application platform strategies for the Burton Group. "Before an XML or SOAP message can be passed between a Web service and its requesting application, the two systems need to agree on identity definitions, security requirements, and communication formats. Today, this agreement must be programmed, out-of-band, on a service by service basis."

"As more information is made available to citizens and employees over the Internet, ensuring the right users are accessing the right information is critical," said Robert McDonald, chief architect at the BC attorney general's office. "Layer 7 provides a secure and flexible solution to help bridge our application silos quickly and cost effectively."

With SecureSpan Bridge identity, policy and communication definitions can be dynamically coordinated across departments and partners without programming. For organizations looking to streamline integrations across disparate identity silos, SecureSpan Bridge provides a fast and flexible solution that requires minimal configuration.

"Web services technology is an ideal, standards-based method to connect applications across the extended enterprise," said Toufic Boubez, chief technology officer of Layer 7. "With the SecureSpan Bridge, users of XML, Web Services and SOA now for the first time have a simple tool to make cross-domain integration not only possible, but also practical."