What is an XML gateway and why is it important to a companys Web services security strategy?
Haddad: An XML gateway is a hardware appliance that provides hardware assisted acceleration of encryption and digital signing capabilities. These are very expensive operations that can be offloaded from your service platform to a dedicated device. XML gateways serve as central choke points where they monitor, control and secure Web service traffic and can apply security services to that traffic such as authentication, authorisation, encryption, signature processing, credential mapping, message scanning, and protection from denial of service attacks. These are very full featured, rich devices that are heavily focused on security. In addition to that, they have many other value-add capabilities such as service monitoring, provisioning of policies among clients and services, and they provide a central place to control your security posture through definition of policies in these systems that are then distributed across your endpoints as declarative policies that are enforced throughout yo
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