ObjectSecurity, the leading solutions provider for Model Driven Security Management and secure information sharing in mission-critical industries today announced that its OpenPMF 2.0 security management product now supports XACML 2.0, an access control interoperability standard for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

OpenPMF 2.0 allows you to specify business-driven security requirements in an intuitive graphical way, and bridge the gap to fine-grained IT authorization management across heterogeneous, networked IT landscapes. By supporting XACML, OpenPMF 2.0 can bring security management for enforcement IT infrastructure from many different vendors back to the business: business-driven security requirements can be managed centrally for many different infrastructure technologies. A number of vendors offer XACML Policy Enforcement Points (PEPs) and Policy Decision Points (PDPs) that can be leveraged from OpenPMF 2.0.

ABOUT OPENPMF 2.0

OpenPMF 2.0 is an innovative software suite for business-driven information security management. The benefits include reduced cost, improved enterprise-wide security compliance, and low-maintenance security management for agile Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). OpenPMF 2.0 lets you manage security at a business-driven, intuitive high level of abstraction close to human thinking. OpenPMF 2.0 is fully customizable so that you can define customized policies in the way you think about security in the context of your organization. You can define policies consistently in one place and automatically enforce them across your IT environment. OpenPMF 2.0 can protect most IT systems, and reuse most pre-existing security infrastructure. You can deploy with lower upfront cost and risk thanks to innovative deployment options (software rental, appliance and remote “security as a service”). OpenPMF 2.0's powerful, yet easy-to-use technology is the only 'model driven security management' solution in the market today. It is the most flexible, extensible, standards based, and easy-to-use enterprise security management framework on the market. The patent-pending technology is based on 9 years of solid research and development by leading experts who are currently driving international standardization of model driven security. OpenPMF 2.0 is the most thought-through solution on the market and listed as a promising high-impact technology on Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Information Security 2007.

ABOUT XACML

 XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) is a declarative access control policy language implemented in XML and a processing model that describes how to interpret the policies. It has been standardized by the OASIS standards organization in 2005, and version 3 is currently being standardized.

ABOUT OBJECTSECURITY

ObjectSecurity Ltd. is a Cambridge (United Kingdom) and San Jose (CA, USA) based world-leader in model driven security and authorization management. The company offers the ground-breaking model-driven OpenPMF enterprise security management ecosystem and various secure middleware platforms. ObjectSecurity provides services for model driven security, middleware security, SOA security, secure information sharing (e.g. CDM). Their customer base includes Agilent Technologies, BAA Heathrow Airport, Deutsche Telekom, ESG, European General Electric, Intel, QinetiQ, Royal Bank of Scotland, Real-Time Innovations, Twinsoft/Hewlett-Packard, US Naval Research Lab and others. ObjectSecurity specializes on information security for complex IT environments in mission-critical markets.