SecureSpan Gateways for Insurance

Securely extend SOA to insurance resellers and customers

In the insurance industry, facilitating business relationships with partners is fundamental to growing revenues. Extending an in-house SOA in order to give resellers access to on-premise systems and applications is a highly effective way of reducing barriers to doing business with partners. However, this inevitably raises concerns around data security and confidentiality.

Layer 7 SecureSpan SOA Gateway has been deployed at a number of Fortune 500 insurance companies. The Gateway addresses these companies’ security and privacy concerns by:

• Gating user access according to entitlements
• Securing communications between external users and backend systems

The SecureSpan SOA Gateway also makes it possible to securely incorporate an online customer portal into an in-house SOA. In this way, an insurance company can create an online portal that is highly responsive to customer needs, while ensuring that backend systems and sensitive data remain protected.