ObjectSecurity, the leading solutions provider for Model Driven Security Management (OpenPMF 2.0, see www.openpmf.com) today announced that it has been awarded a £50,000 (US$100,000) consulting contract by the UK Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), which is funded by the UK government’s Technology Strategy Board.

The project involves a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) security concerns analysis report with input from the KTN and the wider community. Several workshops are held in London to facilitate a dialogue, and a website with collaboration tools is available on www.secure-soa.info .

Dr. Ulrich Lang, CEO and co-founder of ObjectSecurity says “We are excited to work on this project. The open nature of the project allows us to bring all involved stakeholders together and facilitate a discussion about how to move SOA security forward.”

“'We are delighted to be working with ObjectSecurity. This is a complex topic on which there is plethora of views. We are looking forward to being able to circulate a useful and exploitable white paper which will get to the core of the problem. We expect the at the output will incorporate the expertise of a wide and diverse stakeholder group.”, Nigel Jones and Ralph James from the Cyber Security KTN say.

ABOUT OBJECTSECURITY

ObjectSecurity Ltd. (www.objectsecurity.com) is a Cambridge (United Kingdom) and San Jose (CA, USA) based SOA security specialist and a world-leader in model driven security management. The company offers the ground-breaking model-driven OpenPMF enterprise security management ecosystem and various secure middleware platforms. ObjectSecurity also 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, Lufthansa Systems, 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. ObjectSecurity has recently been named “Cool Vendor” by Gartner, the leading technology analyst firm, and is also a listed sample vendor on Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Information Security 2007.

ABOUT CYBER SECURITY KTN

The Cyber Security KTN (www.cybersecurity-ktn.com) aims to be the single focal point for UK Cyber Security expertise, to collaboratively identify universal challenges and develop effective response, influence UK investment strategy and government policy, accelerate innovation and education, harness and promote UK capability internationally and help improve the UK security baseline.

Contributions are critical for this project. Please register at the website www.secure-soa.info or contact us