Wave Issue 9035 4/05/99 Article 5-01

***Gradient’s NetCrusader/CORBA Provides Plug-and-Play
(March 15)

Technologies, Inc. has announced Gradient’s NetCrusader/CORBA
products, based on the industry standard CORBA Security Level 2
specification.

NetCrusader/CORBA supports a number of authentication
technologies for proving user identities, including Public-Key
Infrastructures (PKIs), Kerberos, DCE, SSL Basic Authentication
and two-factor devices. NetCrusader/CORBA also provides a
graphical administrative console for managing security for users
and objects. Grouping users and objects into roles and domains,
respectively, simplifies security management. In addition,
NetCrusader provides consistent permissions management not only
for object-based applications, but also for Web-based and other
network computing applications.

The CORBA standard for distributed objects, published by the
Object Management Group (OMG), defines the behavior and
appearance of objects regardless of the hardware or software on
which they were developed or on which they are running. OMG’s
CORBA Security Service standard specifies two levels of security
for distributed object applications: Level 1 and Level 2.

CORBA Security Level 1 supports the following security features
and makes them available to existing applications with no
software modifications:

--Authentication

--Data Privacy and Integrity

--Authorization of access privileges

--Delegation of permissions

--Auditing and Logging

CORBA Security Level 2 supports all Level 1 functionality and
provides standard interfaces to allow application-specific
control of security features. For example, a CORBA-based
application could programmatically make fine-grained access
decisions to data and methods based on a client’s NetCrusader
security credentials, providing more flexibility for implementing
sophisticated security policies.

The combination of NetCrusader/CORBA with leading object request
brokers such as Inprise’s VisiBroker and IONA’s Orbix provides
transparent, immediately deployable security services for
distributed object applications.

NetCrusader/CORBA for Inprise’s VisiBroker and IONA’s Orbix is
scheduled for Q2 ‘99.

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