Forum Systems, Inc. products protect applications against Web service
/ XML / SOAP / WSDL based attacks. These applications are typically database
(DB2®) and application server (WebSphere®) based. The security policies
being enforced are in XML and integrate with different internal systems.
"Forum Systems, Inc. is the leader in Web services security with
a comprehensive suite of Trust Management, Threat Protection and Information
Assurance solutions for the automated Web. Forum Systems' flexible hardware,
software and embedded products make vibrant business communications possible
by actively protecting XML data and Web services across networks and business
boundaries." - Walid Negm, VP marketing
Forum XWALL
and SENTRY collect
detailed logs and incident alerts in the event of attacks and forward them
to the IBM Autonomic Computing Common Base Event for analysis. By analyzing
these logs an attack can be identified and new security policies defined
and pushed down to the Forum solution to enforce from the IBM Autonomic
Computing Integrated Solutions Console and Autonomic Management Engine.
This creates a ‘closed loop’ and delivers automatic remediation.
Since many Web service applications are machine-to-machine communications,
this ability to respond to a new attack--automatically without any human
intervention--is essential in avoiding application downtime.
