Feb 16, 2004 : Reactivity Offers Hardware XML Firewall

📅 February 16, 2004 - Reactivity (reactivity.com), a provider of XML Web services security solutions, announced today that it has released the XML Firewall security appliance, which it says is the industry's first Web services security product to incorporate content processing technology.

The Reactivity XML Firewall sits at the edge of the corporate network to secure message flow between distributed applications. It acts as an XML proxy that performs authentication, authorization, auditing, XML validation and routing to secure bi-directional message flow. The content processing technology, developed by Tarari (tarari.com), allows the XML Firewall to perform wire-saturation speed analysis on a number of complex algorithms and XML syntax that exist in the payload of XML Web services messages. According to the company, the Tarari content processor contributes to the Reactivity XML Firewall's ability to achieve new levels of performance and improved application response times.
Reactivity said XML Firewall is part of its soon-to-be-announced 2400 series, an enterprise-class product family designed to meet emerging requirements for higher levels of security, scalability and manageability for Web services.
"Our new 2400 series products, which will be formally announced next quarter, will shake up the Web services security industry and further strengthen our leadership position," says Glenn Osaka, CEO and president of Reactivity. "With the first XML firewall to incorporate hardware accelerated XML content processing, today's product demonstration underscores our commitment to provide our customers with the broadest range of options to help them achieve instant and sustainable XML Web services security."