CA gets into proxy game

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
06/09/05
Today's focus: CA gets into proxy game

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* CA's eTrust SiteMinder Secure Proxy Server r6 helps IT
  managers control access to back-end Web content
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Today's focus: CA gets into proxy game

By Denise Dubie

Computer Associates recently announced the availability of a
product designed to help IT managers control access to back-end
Web content.

CA's eTrust SiteMinder Secure Proxy Server (SPS) r6 works with
the company's eTrust SiteMinder, a Web security product that
provides centralized, policy-based access management and single
sign-on to Web applications and resources. SPS extends
SiteMinder, CA says, by enabling IT managers to manage access to
hosted applications remotely, centrally administer security
policies and ensure the integrity of network demilitarized zones
(DMZ).

Basically, a proxy server can hide the details of the internal
network to external, unauthenticated users.

For example, SiteMinder SPS prevents non-authenticated users
from entering the DMZ and keeps the internal network masked from
external users.

SiteMinder SPS is physically deployed in the DMZ and
communicates with eTrust SiteMinder's Policy Server that sits
behind another firewall. SiteMinder SPS' job is to make sure
that only traffic from properly authenticated users is allowed
through the DMZ. It can enable single sign-on for devices that
don't support cookies, such as browsers and some wireless
devices. The proxy server can also help route requests to
back-end Web servers based on varying factors.

For example, proxy rules can flow requests to destination
servers based on factors such as URL query string, host name and
HTTP headers.

SiteMinder SPS also supports multiple sessions schemes, such as
cookies, SSL session IDs, device IDs, IP addresses and URL
re-writing.

SiteMinder SPS r6 is generally available now. Pricing
information is available from CA representatives.

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Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management
for Network World. Reach her at <mailto:ddubie@nww.com>.
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