Securent's Entitlement Management Solution (EMS) is a pioneering product that is differentiated based on the following principles:

Securent EMS includes native support for XACML 2.0 (including the as yet unratified functionality in XACML 3.0), SOAP, SAML, and SPML standards. Securent EMS has no dependencies on application platforms, authentication infrastructure, repositories, directories, or databases. This standards-based platform agnostic approach enables Securent to simply and easily integrate with existing identity and access management solutions and heterogeneous application and IT environments.

Access rules that specify what actions may be carried out by which users on what resources (and under what circumstances) in both very detailed and very broad terms is a necessity in today's complex application environments. Furthermore, an enterprise Entitlement Management solution must be able to protect resources that can be scoped according to business needs, and may range from a complete application to a web page to a function within an application to a data base record.

Securent provides an infrastructure for expressing, managing, auditing, and enforcing rules for hierarchical resources with multiple, dynamic attributes and with arbitrarily fine granularity.

Most competing solutions rely on re-purposing existing identity and access management solutions (such as web single sign-on products) to also act as a central entitlement authority. However, this model has largely failed to meet the scalable, application-specific, and fine-grained authorization needs of enterprises. Furthermore, existing identity and access management solutions do not reflect the practical deployment considerations that require decisions to be made closer to applications in a distributed manner, rather than at a central authority.

Securent brings an innovative distributed entitlement solution that is light-weight and deployable in a federated, heterogeneous environment. The result is a highly scalable system that meets the performance requirements of even the most demanding mission-critical enterprise applications.

From the intuitive drag-and-drop user interface to the rapid installation procedure, Securent EMS is designed to quickly prove its value. One of the largest financial institutions in the world went from selecting Securent to being in production in just 10 weeks. They secured an application with more than 100,000 entitlements and tens of thousands of users.

Most customers are able to download Securent EMS, install it, configure it, connect it to their existing infrastructure, and define a few sample policies in less than 45 minutes. For a high-end enterprise software product, this is a remarkable feat.

Availability of enforcement points for key commercial applications is another important differentiator of our solution. Securent EMS comes with out-of-the-box integration points for key enterprise application and infrastructure platforms including J2EE, Spring-ACEGI, SOAP, .Net, C#, C++, VB and COM, and also offers seamless integration with commonly deployed commercial applications such as:

• Microsoft SharePoint
• BEA WebLogic Portal
• IBM WebSphere Portal
• JBoss Portal
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