Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway Secure and auditable web services for financial institutions
Multiple systems in the financial industry — loan and mortgage applications, risk reporting, offline batch processing, Internet banking, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) — operate together to process billions of daily transactions. Technology is imperative to keep the financial engines running.
“… any [SOA] system is inherently insecure the moment you open it up to the outside world….” Butler Group OMNIACCESS 8550 WEB SERVICES GATEWAY The Alcatel-Lucent® OmniAccess™ 8550 Web Services Gateway (WSG), deployed as in Figure 1, provides reliable enterprise-wide user-centric stateful policy enforcement with consolidated audit trails to web-enabled services, data, applications and business processes.
SINGLE IDENTITY AND STATEFUL POLICY ENFORCEMENT Threats to sensitive information come from multiple sources. Internal threats come from employees and external threats from partners, outsourcers, contractors and the Internet. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG uses data encryption coupled with stateful policy enforcement and active auditing to ensure that transactions are secure and stored data is safe from misuse. Figure 2.
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE Regulatory compliance is one of the most difficult and time-consuming hurdles for financial institutions. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG takes over the management of higher functions such as policy enforcement and auditing by inserting itself into the XML message flow.
EXTENSION OF NETWORK SERVICES TO PARTNERS The financial world is a synergy of large, medium and small companies working together to create a portfolio of products using a variety of applications. Therefore, it is important for financial institutions to be able to easily connect with a variety of business partners, contractors and outsourcers. However, connecting various businesses creates a problem tracking all the activity of each transaction through multiple business systems and networks.
The OmniAccess 8550 allows easy integration with external partners through identity interoperability, enabling cross-validation between partners and the extension of virtual services. Coordinating authentication systems has several benefits.
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