Layer 7 helps organizations manage and secure their IT assets by letting them control, monitor and adapt their Web services no matter where they originate – in the enterprise or in the cloud – using a turnkey appliance that features sophisticated runtime governance, agent-less Web services management and industry-leading XML security. Achieve Control through Policy EnforcementThe Layer 7 SecureSpan family of products lets you regain control by enforcing policies for all the services in use by your organization according to the risk each one poses. - Enforce security
- Centralized policy enforcement point deployed in-house or in the cloud
- Policy-driven authentication and fine-grained, service level authorization
- Enforce policies according to risk
- Facilitate compliance
- Generate log and audit files at multiple levels
- Export of data for correlation and forensic analysis
- Verify messages for compliance to industry or government-mandated specifications
- Ensure reliability
- Ensure data confidentiality over the wire and at rest
- Ensure services remain readily available
- Verify messages to ensure integrity
Gain Visibility by Monitoring ServicesThe Layer 7 Enterprise Service Manager gives you the tools to help you monitor the day-to-day operation of all your services, whether they originate in-house or in the cloud. - Ensure SLA conformance
- Monitor, measure and report on SLAs using an agentless management system
- Ensure you are meeting your own SLAs
- Ensure you’re getting the value you expect from 3rd-party service providers
- Ensure Quality of Service
- Monitor, measure and report on service performance in real-time
- Reroute and throttle services to maintain reach-abilty and availability
- Alert or automate actions based on:
- Throughput, routing failures, utilization, availability rates, etc
- Track Message Content
- Identify trends, exceptions or violations at the message level
- Report on user, client and system access to sensitive data
Adapt at the Pace of Business ChangeThe Layer 7 solution allows you to facilitate change by decoupling those aspects of your services that change the most (including security, SLAs, compliance, etc) and instantiating them as policies at a central enforcement point that can be deployed in-house or in the cloud. - Gain Policy Agility
- Decouple security, SLA, compliance and other shared code from services
- Modify existing or deploy new policies on the fly, in-house or in the cloud
- Out-of-the-box assertions facilitate policy assembly without coding
- Custom assertions let you meet specific requirements
- Gain Deployment Flexibility
- Deploy in-house or in the cloud
- Multiple form factors:
- Hardware appliance
- Software appliance
- Software
- Cross-domain client
- Facilitate Interoperability
- Out-of-the box integration with leading SOA solutions
- Standards-based, open APIs facilitates integration
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