Application Security & Identity Analyst Reviews
451 Group Research Report: Intel-McAfee links up identity-in-the-cloud SSO with salesforce.com
Industry analyst Steve Coplan of The 451 Group takes a close look at the recent beta release of Intel Cloud SSO and places it in the context of the rapidly evolving cloud service broker market for mediating user ids and application APIs for cloud access. He highlights how the cloud service broker can become “…a proxy between the application and the user…” In this report, Coplan points out how the Intel/McAfee cloud access broker strategy, which combines authentication, federation and API governance, “makes for a compelling vision.”
Gartner Research Report: Hype Cycle for Identity and Access Management Technologies, 2011
The identity and access management market continued to mature in 2011 as economic conditions improved. This report discusses technologies and standards that enable enterprises to manage user identities, security, and compliance using a variety of established and emerging techniques. Use these insights to evaluate and learn more about enterprises are employing IAM technologies and standards to improve costs, protect against unauthorized access, and monitor identity security and governance.
451 Group Report on Federation Gateway Market & Cloud Access 360
In this Market Insight Report, 451 Group Steve Coplan provides a comprehensive independent review of the Intel Expressway Cloud Access 360 Federation Gateway. Steve covers how Intel’s acquisition of Nordic Edge plays into Intel’s latest moves in the security sector. This report compares and contrasts the Intel solution with other point federated SSO solutions on the market.
451 Group Market Development: Cloud Governance
In this Market Development Report, 451 Group Analyst Steve Coplan defines cloud access governance&gateways: “Security in the cloud constitutes security for a shared, elastic resource that is either running in a third-party environment or in a dedicated private cloud. In both instances, some entity needs to serve as a gateway between the service provider and the service consumer, and as policy enforcement for centrally defined policies.” Steve’s report further describes how Intel’s service gateway in the cloud targets IaaS providers concerned about securing their APIs as well as organizations with the need to federate policy logic and secure communications between internal networks and virtual private clouds.
OVUM Butler Group Intel® Expressway Service Gateway Technology Audit
In this January 2010 Technology Audit, OVUM Butler Group analyst Rob Hailstone describes the Intel® Expressway Service Gateway and how the software appliance can be deployed as a point of entry for SOA or as a point-of-usage device that offloads process intensive tasks from a traditional Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The report provides coverage on how Intel Expressway Service Gateway delivers a set of runtime governance functions, both passive such as monitoring and auditing, and active such as policy enforcement and security gateway. In his review, Rob elaborates on how Intel Expressway Service Gateway can be viewed as several different types of product according to situation and need.
451 Group Market Insight: Security Gateway
In this Market Insight Report, 451 Group Analyst Dennis Callaghan provides a comprehensive independent review of the SOA Appliance market and Intel Expressway Service Gateway. Dennis details Intel’s acquisition of XML acceleration vendor Sarvega and Conformative Systems and presents the Intel Expressway Service Gateway’s evolution from 2005 to today. This report describes Intel’s channel partners, strategic partnerships, and go-to-market strategy. Dennis concludes with a detailed SWOT analysis of the Intel Expressway Service Gateway product.
SOA Thought Leader David Linthicum: Using Intel Expressway Service Gateway to Provide A Common Service and Information Management Layer
David Linthicum is an internationally known thought leader in the EAI, SOA, enterprise architecture, and web 2.0 spaces. In this paper, David describes how micro-domains are good at sharing information and services between just a few systems and how they falls down when sharing information and services enterprise-wide. Needed is an enterprise-wide and scalable infrastructure, such as Intel Expressway Service Gateway, to share services and information in a scalable and reliable way.
