ZapForum Podcast: Understanding Identity & SOA

Digital Identity is at the heart of the modern business ecosystem. However, governing SOA interactions - particularly across a distributed or federated environment - creates complexity not found in typical user-machine exchanges. Separating policy creation and enforcement from service implementation can simplify SOA governance without compromising scalability, flexibility and auditability - accommodating even the most elaborate, heterogeneous IT landscapes. This Webinar will review best practices for building and operating a policy-centered, identity-driven SOA. What You Will Learn: * The connection between identity management and SOA governance * The importance of separating policy and entitlements from service implementation * The challenges of managing and validating identity in SOA interactions * Options for managing and enforcing identity-driven SOA policies * How to implement identity-based governance in real-world SOA

Listen to this Podcast and you will: * Learn what identity is and how it fits into SOA * Understand the relationships between identity and governance and between identity and policy * Grasp the nature of federated identity, and the standards that support it

This Webcast, presented by Layer 7 CTO and WS-Policy co-editor, Dr. Toufic Boubez, will cover how to declaratively define SOA Policy for SOA Governance applications. Consistent, standards based policy definition is the first step in implementing an SOA Governance framework. However, few tools exist for managing the policy authoring process and integrating it into the full policy lifecycle process including repository, approval workflow, enforcement, monitoring and change. Since successful policy definition lies at the heart of SOA security and SLA implementation it is essential in practice.

Web 2.0 and rich internet applications are becoming more pervasive both behind and across the enterprise firewall. But successfully deploying Web 2.0 introduces new challenges that are not addressed with traditional Web-based tools and methodologies. The dynamic and hybrid nature of Web 2.0 technologies like AJAX, RSS and XML requires a new way of approaching both testing and security. In this joint presentation, Parasoft and Layer 7 Technologies will compare and contrast traditional Web and Web 2.0 deployment models, discuss the implications on testing and securing these applications and outline pragmatic approaches for implementing effective testing and security strategies for Web 2.0 applications.

To find out how you can meet the identity, security, and governance challenges of sharing and consuming services across organizational boundaries, join webMethods and Layer 7 for this groundbreaking webinar. Realize the full promise of SOA by learning how to: * Expose service functionality safely and consistently across business silos * Deliver cross-boundary and multi-enterprise SOA securely within the parameters of a broader governance framework * Gain the quickest ROI and a strong position for funding additional SOA projects by going towards a multi-enterprise SOA model * Short-circuit traditional inter-departmental infighting and politics by inheriting significant negotiation and contract metadata from the pre-existing relationship between the organizations * Leverage project visibility to win support including visibility with partners, internal departments, the press and your boss. * Evangelize, promote, obtain funding for and succeed with SOA by going directly to the multi-enterprise endgame

Service Oriented Architectures require software functionality to be available to trusted clients and intermediaries, on-demand. However implementing practical on-demand infrastructures requires an ability to define and enforce service level agreements (SLAs) so that service functionality or data can be predictably and contractually delivered to specific clients based on their identity or transaction context. In this Webinar given by Layer 7's Senior Product Manager, Phil Walston, you will learn about the various SLA policy considerations SOA architects need to contend with and how to implement solutions in real-world architectures.

Architecting and implementing secure and flexible Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) requires an ability to mediate interactions between services based on a declarative and remediable policy language. Coding interaction policies between services results in brittle SOA infrastructures that can't accommodate changing security and business needs. In this talk given by Layer 7 CTO Dr. Toufic Boubez, you will hear how a Policy control infrastructure for SOA can be used to engineer loosely-coupled SOA architectures that can span security domains.

Discusses the challenges of bridging identity silos in Web services, why solutions used in the Web world will not work, and the important role automated trust relationships will play in identity federation for Web services. Host: Scott Morrison, Director, Architecture and Security.

Examines why new security measures need to be taken for XML Web Services residing entirely inside the firewall. Host: Scott Morrison, Director, Architecture and Security.

XML is becoming pervasive inside the enterprise. Driven by data and application integration needs, rising XML transaction volumes require new Data Center solutions that can address performance, scalability and security in a remotely manageable form factor. In this call Layer 7 Director of Architecture, Scott Morrison will look at Data Center considerations for XML and Web services and look at solution options combining best of breed XML Firewalls, ASICs and BladeCenter solution.