Making SOA Operational with HP OpenView SOA Manager and Forum XWall Web Services Firewall

Webinar by HP and Forum Systems

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are an opportunity for organizations to sense and react to information like never before. Closed systems built upon proprietary interfaces keep information and transactional applications locked up. On the other hand, using Web Services for SOA implementations are intrinsically designed to liberate information and facilitate digital interactions.

Web Services as a corporate asset has led to a renewed attention in SOA Life Cycle Management: the ways and means to define and then put into practice principles and policies that can sustain an enterprise-wide SOA implementation. The design-phase of this process starts by outlining organizational objectives that can cut across regulatory, corporate and IT requirements. As Web Services are developed, these policies are then translated into a technical representation for consumption by an active enforcement component.

Effective SOA Life Cycle Management is critical to making your Web Services functional and operational. This means ensuring end-points are highly available, personal data is held private, priority transactions are treated accordingly and there is global compliance to service-level agreements.

In this Webinar you will learn how your company can tackle the entire life-cycle of a SOA using HP OpenView SOA Manager (management & monitoring) and Forum XWall XML Firewall (security and policy enforcement):

• HP OpenView SOA Manager
• Design your SOA using comprehensive requirements from your business managers, application architects and IT operations
• Gain total visibility on key performance metrics and react to mission-critical events such as business exceptions
• Help achieve performance mandates using robust Service Level Agreement (SLA) design and monitoring.

• Forum XWall Web Services Firewall
• Prevent XML denial of service attacks, XML schema violations and threats that propagate using Web Services communications
• Hardware-assisted XML content inspection and SLA policy enforcement engine for predictable performance and scalability
• Fine-grained access control and data privacy with support for Web Services specifications (WS-Security 2004 and SAML 1.1.)

Topics covered in this Webinar:

1. How to construct a services model with comprehensive support for policy design, impact analysis and performance monitoring
2. How to avoid security threats associated with XML data transfers and exposed Web Services
3. How to enforce fine-grained XML data privacy and integrity decisions using XML Encryption and Digital Signatures
4. How to author Web Services access control policies for consumption by a run-time XML-aware policy enforcement point
5. How to leverage investments in HP SelectAccess as a foundation for Web Services identity management
6. Understand the performance and scalability implications of using Forum Systems SOA Appliances

Forum Systems and HP: Better Together