Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Forum Supports WS-SecurityPolicy

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Forum Systems has added new WS-SecurityPolicy support for its web services firewall. The firm said that its Forum XWall Web Services Firewall now supports integration with Microsoft WSE 3.0, by supporting the WS-SecurityPolicy specifications. The WS-SecurityPolicy specification is an industry specification used to define security configuraions for consumers and service providers. Forum Systems develops firewalls specifically targeted at filtering XML and Web Services/SOA traffic. The company's products inspects XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) traffic.