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HP Updates Access Server
Information Week Daily 7/15/1998
Hewlett-Packard next week plans to ship a new version of its Praesidium
Authorization Server, which is designed to help companies control user
access to information served up over intranets and extranets.
"In the past, companies were interested in firewalls and were thinking
about securing the perimeters of their corporate networks," says Cyndi
Nickel, business planning manager for Internet security at HP. "Now, after
having to punch holes in the firewalls so they can share information with
their business partners, companies are discovering that they need to have
fine-grain control over who can access what."
The previous version of Praesidium Authorization Server let organizations
establish a security framework via application programming interfaces to
govern user access to a variety of applications and systems. The new
version lets companies establish business rules that govern who can access
Web applications, Web-enabled legacy applications, and Web forms. For
example, a financial company can prevent junior traders from conducting
trades in mutual funds worth more than $100,000. Praesidium Authorization
Server can intercept the trade transaction, determine who sent it, and
review the content, then match the information against pre-set business
rules. If a disparity is found, the trade can be stopped, Nickel explains.
The server includes an embedded relational database that holds the user
information and business rules; a future version will also support the
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol so it can leverage LDAP-based
directories. The server supports various public key-certificate authority
software from companies such as Entrust and VeriSign, as well as other
authentication mechanisms such as hardware tokens. Pricing is not yet set.
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Received on Tue Jul 21 10:00:20 1998