Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 User Manual 2

Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess™8550 Web Services Gateway (WSG) protects sensitive information from misuse satisfying

regulatory compliance requirements and makes business process data available when and where it is needed. The

OmniAccess 8550 WSG provides a corporate wide compliance infrastructure for secure automated business processes

within a company and among its partner organizations. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG is a service oriented network

appliance that reduces the traditional complexity and cost of securing internal corporate and business-to-business

(B2B) automated business processes.

The OmniAccess 8550 WSG, based on
theAlcatel-Lucent Web services run-time
message inspection technology, provides
a scalable and reliable service oriented
infrastructure for information system
in such areas as human resources,
enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management
(CRM), and finance with security
and regulatory compliance (policy
enforcement and audit trail) that is
required for secure business process
automation. It is deployable within data
centers to secure business processes
within an organization and in the DMZ
for automating business processes
with partners. The OmniAccess 8550
WSG provides a significant competitive
advantage by reducing IT system total
cost of ownership (TCO).

Product Features

The deployment of an OmniAccess
8550 WSG provides corporate-wide
security and regulatory compliance so
organizations can secure automated
business processes to meet increased
government regulations and safely
automate business processes with
partners, creating a secure automated
partner ecosystem. With the OmniAccess
8550WSG securing business processes,
highly skilled employees have access
to information whenever they require
it, even when at a partner site.

The OmniAccess 8550 WSG also provides
unique, stateful (multi-transaction),
run-time policy enforcement and
consolidated audit trails to ensure
and demonstrate compliance with
government regulations (see Figure 1).
The OmniAccess 8550 WSG also has
the ability to mitigate risk through

consistent policy enforcement across
info rmation systems with a user
contextual knowledge of system events.
To protect private data, the OmniAccess
8550WSG provides information access
and change control as well as data
encryption with digital signatures.
This enables a single digital identity
within an organization that accepts
authentication from trusted partners—
the foundation for a consolidated
corporate-wide access policy.

Secure B2B processes are further
enhanced by the OmniAccess 8550
WSG through security features such
as the application firewall and auditing,
tracking and control functions that can
be used to monitor all partner activity,
including access to information by
partner employees when on-site.

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Figure 1. Core OmniAccess OA8550 WSG features

Deployment architecture

The OmniAccess 8550 WSG is designed
to be deployed in the DMZ of an
organization to secure business process
automation with partners (see Figure

2). The OmniAccess 8550 WSG is
typically installed behind the IP firewall
and provides service virtualization as
well as key security functions to

Figure 2. Typical OmniAccess 8550 WSG network deployment

protect the internal domain and ensure
data security.

Alternatively,the OmniAccess 8550 WSG
can be installed in the data center to
secure business processes within the
organization. It allows information
access policy to be consistently enforced
at run time across information systems

and can demonstra te regul atory
compliance through a user centric
consolidated audit trail. Risk is mitigated
with the proper controls and monitoring
points in place as well as through
consistent policy enforcement across
info rmation systems with a user
contextual knowledge of system events.

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