
Bee Ware v-Sentry
v-Sentry is an exclusive new single-appliance, full application firewall that protects web applications and web services without sacrificing performance.
From Web to XML
Service Oriented Architectures now enable organisations to leverage IT infrastructure assets and build bridges between heterogeneous applications. The business gain is tremendous, with accelerated ability to service legacy, current and future application needs through Web Service interfaces using SOAP and XML.
Simultaneously, enterprises must manage web application threats, prevent against malicious XML, implement new standards such as WS Security and, they also aspire to perform these services via a single and global solution.
A single solution for full application management
v-Sentry is a full Application Layer gateway that protects both HTML applications and XML and Web Services. The combination of Web Application Security and Web Services Security within a sole device affords numerous benefits, such as a favourable impact on costs, improved flexibility towards evolving and comprehensive strategies and a reduction in the risks associated with web delivery.
v-Sentry, business confidence through application enablement.
Supporting standards such as WS-Security and SAML, the solution links access control policies into identity management infrastructure and blocks threats within XML messages, SOAP attachments and at the HTTP level.
Business Benefits
- Single solution that covers multiple technologies (web, XML, Web services)
- Simple approach but capable of handling and hiding the most complex and sophisticated business processes
- Allows confident evolution of business processes - SOA introduces new business practices, v-Sentry accompanies the organisation securely along untested waters
- A mighty combination of the best technologies for global web risk management and application governance
Features
Web & XML Threat Prevention
- 0 Day attack detection based on the exclusive ICXTM analysis engine
- Scanner and Robot Detection based on APDTM (Automated Process Detection)
- XML validation and threat detection
- Content filtering. anti-virus integration
- Fine-grained authorisation
- Connectors to identity management infrastructure (LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, CA SiteMinder, Entrust Get Access, IBM Tivoli Access Manager, RSA ClearTrust, etc.)
- Web Services virtualisation and traffic throttling
- Web Site Cloaking and infrastructure dissimulation
- URL Translation
- Audit logs for regulatory compliance
- encryption or deletion of sensitive data such as customer name, ID...
- Patented XML Acceleration sub-system
- Hardware SSL Acceleration - 300 to 6000 TPS /s (SSL V2 - SSL V3 - TLS 1.0)
- Gzip and Deflate compression
- High performance ram cache
- Gigabit networking
- High availability and traffic load balancing for protected Web servers
- Active failover for v-Sentry appliance redundancy
- Real time monitoring console
- Support for SNMP - Syslog
- OPSEC connector for firewall blacklisting
- Central Configuration Repository
- Remote and centralised Management
- Drag and drop policy editor
- Policy versioning and migration















