eTrust SiteMinder Secure Proxy Server can be deployed as a proxy gateway, and the r6 version will support a wider range of platforms and a variety of identify and authentification schemes such as two-factor authentification.
The software, which was acquired when CA bought Netegrity for $430m last November, is being integrated into the Esma common architecture CA is currently working on and which should be completed mid-2006.
Esma is described as a backbone that will bridge to any security system built around any one of a variety of open standards such as WS-Security, SAML, SPML, ISO-10181, Kerberos, X.509, and SAF. It is intended to help to pull together the myriad of security processes that are acted out across mixed application platforms and security regimes.
The backbone design shields applications from differences that exist in the underlying security technology by providing a consistent set of abstract security interfaces. Over time, all the vendor’s eTrust identity management and access control products will be Esma-enabled, according to a staged release cycle.
Esma-enabled versions of the eTrust CA-ACF2 and eTrust CA-Top Secret were the first in a series of product announcements planned around the new architecture.
