XML and SOA security issues remain hot

xml| Security | Problems with the development of Web services from the original model to the product, XML security issues and acceleration issues have been raised to the main point. Although heavyweight companies, IBM and Cisco Systems, have leveraged the current need through the realm of XML devices--IBM recently dug up the Datapower technology company--but the forum system company BET: This week they're going to forum Vantage The XML accelerator is on the market, and with this move they will win more opportunities. "XML can even consume up to 50 times times more bandwidth than the traditional binary communication protocol." It can lead to a decline in the performance of interactive applications. Just processing XML can be frustrating. "The company is located in Salt Lake City," said Walid Negm, vice president of Forum Systems.

So far, forum has focused its research plans on XML security issues.

"The security infrastructure is changing, the network equipment is changing, and the middleware infrastructure is changing," Negm said. "We look at this as a great opportunity for forum to expand in other areas, so we've launched an XML accelerator." ”

However, Negm stressed that accelerators have become part of the Forum Sentry SOA gateway and Forum Xwall WEB Services firewall from the beginning. "When we are attacked, the XML accelerator has always been the basis for the product to be trusted, so we always consider it a basic function to speed up transaction processing for the user." In the past, we just wanted to focus our energies on security, but now it's time for us to do our part. ”

According to Michael Gavin, a senior analyst at the Forrester research firm, "the market is ready to give up the burden it has accumulated so far." The company is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since the organization was only last year to develop Web services to production, "There are security and acceleration issues with XML taking up so much leniency," Gavin said. "People know they need XML devices." In terms of acceleration and security, middleware solutions do not provide the benefits that match these products. ”

XML devices are "collections of service intermediates," said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at Zapthink LLC, in the city of Watson, Massachusetts. "All of these devices, like the devices offered by Blue Titan Dealers, are a middleware alternative, a middleware approach that provides an ESB distributor to provide an SOA infrastructure." However, a large number of middleware dealers attempt to sell obsolete middleware in a new way. Obviously, this is not the right way to build a flexible SOA infrastructure. ”

By contrast, he said: "An intelligent intermediates approach will be more flexible." It relies on existing networks and you can have as many intermediates as possible. You can build an enterprise-class SOA infrastructure without the need for an ESB. ”

Forum's Vantage XML Accelerator leverages a 64-bit platform architecture and forum's Hermes parser to speed XML/SOAP parsing, XML Schema validation, XPath processing, and functional transformations of XSLT. According to the company itself, their XML accelerator is capable of processing more than 10,000 XML messages per second.

Unlike some competitors in this field, Forum's products are effective in a variety of factors: software, programmable communication interface cards (PCI card), and devices. Providing both hardware and software versions "is the company that has won potential users and business partners," Bloomberg said. And, he adds, "their equipment has a dangerous angle of protection that is not emphasized by other devices, and it is, of course, the core strength of the forum company." ”

Negm said the forum company reached his first earnings month in October and expects to end the year with a tax of around 10 million dollars. "Taxes are a huge increase for us," he said, "and we're considering building a 5 million-line." In fact, we think the DataPower company is selling too early. ”

Forrester's Gavin says he agrees with Negm's point of view. "There may be some people who will be amazed at how quickly these big companies get into the market," he said, "Forum and Datapower and reactivity have been in the field for some time." Consumers who buy these types of products are well aware of these companies [forum companies]. ”

The Forum Vantage XML Accelerator is now available as a common device; the price is 45,000 dollars. It complies with government requirements, including Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) certification, Common Criteria assessment Assurance level 4+eal 4+, and the certification of the DoD Public Key Infrastructure (DoD PKI) of the Joint Interoperability Testing Command (JITC).