Forum Systems, Inc. is the leader in Web services security with a comprehensive suite of Trust Management, Threat Protection and Information Assurance solutions for the Automated Web. Forum Systems flexible hardware, software and embedded products make vibrant business communications possible by actively protecting XML data and Web services across networks and business boundaries.

As businesses move more of their critical transactions across the Internet, they face a significant security challenge: how to guarantee the protection of business-critical information over increasingly complex trading relationships.

• Forum Systems enables our customers to efficiently share and secure sensitive information across the extended enterprise.
• Forum Systems offers enterprises and government agencies a comprehensive suite of XML-Sentient content security infrastructure that actively guards information as it moves between and within enterprises - at the origin, during transmission, and after it reaches its destination.

Today, more than ever, companies must address both the trust and threat sides of Web services security.

The Web Services Security Equation

Web Services Security: A Business Imperative

Web services are a practical approach for enterprises to realize genuine business benefits such as lower operating costs, increased revenue, increased customer intimacy, lowering costs and increasing efficiencies. More sophisticated approaches to doing business such as real-time business, applications on demand and Internet utilities such as grid computing are all driven by Web services.

With more and more sensitive information being shifted onto the Internet, Web services security is now a primary business and IT consideration - and not an afterthought. This shift in priority is also being accelerated by inadequate information protection from traditional mechanisms such as SSL and VPN as well as by strict government regulations such as GLB, HIPPA, Sarbanes Oxley and e-Gov initiative.

Trust vs. Threat

Forum Systems believes that just because you may trust a system, machine or user, it does not mean they have good intentions - Web services security is a two part equation that takes into account issues around Trust and Threat.

Using this simple yet powerful philosophy Forum Systems has developed a comprehensive suite of content security products that offer Threat Protection as well as Trust Management solutions.