Identity Management

SOA Software™ extends the value of Identity and Access Management solutions through enterprise SOA and Web services.  Most large enterprises have deployed Identity and Access Management solutions like Netegrity SiteMinder and Tivoli Access Manager to provide authentication, authorization and Single-Sign-On for based environments and applications.  The rapid adoption and promise of SOA and Web services technologies is driving enterprises to look for ways to leverage their existing security infrastructure in their SOA.

SOA Software’s solutions integrate with existing Identity and Access Management platforms in several ways that combine to provide to unique, high value solution:

• Single-sign-on between Web and Web services environments - because SOA Software embeds an access management agent in its Delegate™ we can “translate” a proprietary session cookie into a SAML assertion for use throughout the SOA.
• End-to-end TRUSTED security - because we use access management agents in both the Gateway and the Agents and Network Director™, we can leverage the 3rd party access management vendor’s trust model from end-to-end.
• Identity Mapping - our integration with identity and access management solutions ensures that we can “translate” proprietary session cookies into real-world identities that we can then map to other identity repositories like RAC/F.  This is critical for end-to-end security integration with Mainframe Web services.
• Identity-based SOA management - leveraging our integration with 3rd party identity and access management solutions to translate proprietary session cookies into real world identities we can use user, group and role information to drive dynamic quality-of-service and performance-based monitoring and routing to ensure that user specific service level agreement are kept.