Next week (June 11-14), Layer 7 will be exhibiting at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit near Washington, DC (in National Harbor, MD). Speakers will run the gamut from Michael Dell to the Cybersecurity Coordinator for the White House, because enterprises and governmental organizations share a serious interest in securing data and applications.

The combination of security and risk management is particularly interesting these days, as rapid migration to Cloud and Mobile has introduced a new set of risks. These new platforms raise issues around compliance, information security and identity management, which can only be addressed with a comprehensive approach to security, using proven technology.

If you’re at the show, stop by and visit Layer 7 at Booth 92. We’d love to demonstrate how our SOA Governance and API Management solutions can counteract the risks involved with adopting these new technologies. Our solutions – flexibly deployed on-premise or in the Cloud – provide control over data and applications being exposed to partners, Cloud and Mobile.

And our industry-leading technology has been certified at the highest levels for use in both corporate and governmental organizations – PCI-DSS compliance for retail, STIG vulnerability testing for the DoD, FIPS 140-2 for cryptographic functionality and Common Criteria certification for overall security.

Don’t let the risk outweigh the reward – come talk to us!

Layer 7 is proud to be exhibiting at the 2012 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference, which will be taking place in Denver this April 1-4. The show will be focusing on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s goal of unifying defense intelligence infrastructure and information sharing initiatives.

Never before has so much intelligence data been collected and never has the challenge of securely sharing these valuable assets been greater. As new intelligence systems come online, issues inevitably arise around the need to make data and security credentials interoperable between these new systems and existing capabilities.

As the leading provider of secure messaging and security Gateway solutions to the US Federal Intelligence Community, Layer 7 will be at the show, demonstrating its solutions for data and security interoperability within the enterprise and the Cloud. If you’re attending the DoDIIS conference, stop by Booth 917 to see first-hand how you can resolve interoperability and fine-grained access challenges with a Common Criteria EAL 4+ certified solution from Layer 7.

At Layer 7, we often talk about how we can help enterprises open up net-centric information-sharing APIs. Often overlooked is the vital national security role APIs and net-centric computing perform – they are crucial to connecting applications residing across national agencies and even on mobile devices, vehicles and machines.

For several years, Layer 7 has proudly served national security communities in the US, Canada and Europe, with high-resiliency API security and management technologies for various SOA, mobile and Cloud initiatives. We are proud to include among our clients some of the most demanding organizations on Earth, including the US DoD, US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Justice, US Department of Transportation and NATO.

Layer 7 is continuing its efforts to help organizations like these address the challenges and opportunities associated with SOA-based information sharing and interoperability in the context of reduced budgets, increasing cyber threats, Cloud infrastructure and the need to leverage existing systems in a networked environment.

Due to the sensitive nature of the projects, much of our work to make these efforts successful goes unheralded. However, we are thrilled that one of our recent efforts in supporting Northrup Grumman modernize the US Air Force Air & Space Operations Center Weapons System has been publicly announced.

Layer 7 is working with a consortium of vendors under Northrup Grumman to make the Air & Space Operations Center more agile and net-centric via Service-Oriented, API-based approaches to information sharing. Clearly, SOA and net-centric computing are becoming cornerstones of how applications are discovered, connected and protected and how information is shared.