Forum SystemsDrives SOA Federation for Enterprises and Government Organizations

Forum Sentry Provides Secure, Unified Integration of XML and SOA Web Services
and Portals for Seamless End-User Experience
BOSTON & WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--
Forum Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crosscheck Networks, Inc., today
unveiled the latest version of its flagship product, Forum Sentry. The
announcement was made in conjunction with the OWASP AppSec 2009 Conference, the
largest application security conference in the United States, taking place this
week at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

Processing more than one billion transactions per day worldwide, the FIPS- and
DoD-certified Forum Sentry XML Gateway offers the industry`s most comprehensive
protection against XML- and SOAP-based vulnerabilities. Extending its data
integration capabilities to self-service portals and Web applications, Forum
Sentry now provides enterprises and government agencies with the foundation for
achieving SOA federation. By fostering this deeper, more meaningful Web
experience, Forum Sentry enables greater visibility into: real-time usage of
services; billing information; historical usage and billing data; inventory
levels; and product promotions.

"With the maturation of XML- and SOA-based deployments, re-usable Web services
are more frequently being invoked by portals and Web applications," said Mamoon
Yunus, CEO of Crosscheck Networks. "Forum Sentry empowers more secure, efficient
and seamless information exchange among back-office applications, Web services,
and customer and partner portals - the hallmarks of true SOA federation - and
offers users more control of their Web interactions."

According to Daniel Sholler, Research VP, Gartner, "The goal of this SOA
integration is to create federated models across a broad range of functions to
provide coherent services that the organization sources internally or
externally. This competency will determine the winners in future IT
environments."1

Continuing to set the benchmark for securing Web services, key new capabilities
available via Forum Sentry include:

* HTML Portal Virtualization - Deployed in a "proxy" setting, Forum Sentry
removes the identity and security burden from Web sites and portals. Leveraging
Single Sign On (SSO) functionality across existing infrastructures, Forum
Sentry`s non-intrusive, agentless design accelerates security and identity on a
dedicated device - without requiring code changes to backend Web applications
and services, or additional capital expenditure costs.
* Central Cookie and SAML Processing - Forum Sentry authenticates and authorizes
both portal- and Web services-related identity tokens - the cornerstones of
Federated SOA. Credentials are shared - regardless of where the services reside
- throughout the entire transaction, producing an enhanced, seamless user
experience without compromising security.
* Federated Two-Factor Authentication - Promoting greater security, Forum Sentry
requires two pieces of information for identity verification of internal and
external partners. It removes the complexities so often associated with token
sharing across portals and Web services, while still enforcing the highest
levels of authentication and authorization.
* Protocol/Document Attribute Mapping - Promoting greater ease of use,HTTP/HTML
header information can be mapped into messages and documents. User information
from HTTP can be transferred into a SOAP or XML message for usage elsewhere in
the network - independent of protocol - enabling SOA Federation across both XML
and HTML traffic.

Forum Systems continues to support the widest range of mature and evolving
protocols and industry standards. Specifically, Forum Sentry supports: sFTP for
secure B2B and internal file transfer in legacy environments; AS2 for secure
exchange of structured business data (EDI messages, XML, flat files,
spreadsheets and CAD/CAM data) via HTTP or HTTPS; WS-SecureConversation for
message integrity (signatures) and privacy (encryption) where performance is
paramount; and WS-Reliable Messaging for guaranteed delivery, bolstering
Internet reliability.

In May 2009, Crosscheck Networks acquired Forum Systems to provide an
industry-first, comprehensive Web services "lifecycle" product suite. The
companies` products can be deployed together or seamlessly integrated with
organizations` existing infrastructure. In addition to Forum Sentry, the
enterprise-class suite comprises:

* SOAPSimulator - An affordable, easy-to-configure, comprehensive service
simulation product for developers and testers, SOAPSimulator enables Web
services to significantly reduce project expense and duration by allowing
parallel development of the client and service components of a SOAP- or
XML-based Web service.
* SOAPSonar - Provides modes for functional, multi-client performance,
compliance and security testing of SOAP-, XML- and REST-based services. Notably,
SOAPSonar offers enterprises the unique ability to test functional and
performance characteristics of unlimited-sized Web services attachments via
streaming of structured and unstructured data based on industry standards such
as MTOM and MIME. And with support for WS-Trust, SAML 2.0, and WS-identity
tokens, SOAPSonar ensures a best-practices approach to federated identity
management.

Crosscheck Networks at OWASP AppSec 2009

Yunus and CTO Jason Macy will present the session titled, "Techniques in
Attacking and Defending XML/Web Services." Members of the media and market
research communities interested in meeting with Yunus and Macy at OWASP AppSec
2009 are welcome to contact Bryan Grillo from CHEN PR at bgrillo@chenpr.com or
781-672-3129.

1 Gartner, "How to Approach Integration in Advanced SOA Projects" by Daniel
Sholler, October 7, 2009/ID Number: G00171058

About Forum Systems

Forum Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crosscheck Networks, Inc., is a
leader in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services security. Through
comprehensive Threat mitigation and Trust enablement, Forum's family of gateway
appliances provides enterprises and government organizations with the foundation
for achieving secure SOA federation. Processing more than one billion
transactions per day worldwide, the FIPS- and DoD-certified Forum Sentry XML
Gateway offers the industry's most comprehensive protection against XML- and
SOAP-based vulnerabilities. Forum is a pioneer in XML security, and Forum Sentry
has been issued an industry-first patent (7,516,333) providing broad coverage
for XML Security functions such as XML-encryption, XML-decryption and
XML-signatures as well as general security policy enforcement using a network
appliance. For more information, please visit www.forumsys.com.

CHEN PR
Bryan Grillo, 781-672-3129
bgrillo@chenpr.com

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