Vordel Partners with Sophos over XML Protection

Vordel XML Gateway and SOA Management products will integrate with security solutions provided by Sophos, announced the company via a press release. Vordel revealed that latency and infrastructure failures will not be an issue as the Sophos anti-virus engine will not involve disk input/output and all transfers of information will be facilitated via RAM.

"The Vordel/Sophos solution is available today. Vordel has a strong focus on security integration, and interoperates with identity management infrastructure; network management systems, and with network firewalls. As usage of Web Services rises, so does the threat of self-replicating attacks on Web Services. Now, with this latest addition of Sophos's anti-virus capabilities, Vordel further enhances the spectrum of defense for our customers' XML applications," stated Hugh Carroll, Vordel's VP Marketing.

Via the licensing of the Sophos Anti-Virus Interface, Vordel has the possibility to extend scanning to XML traffic and to the SOA field.

"We are very pleased to be working with Vordel to protect their customers' applications from known and unknown viruses, trojans, worms and spyware. The extension of our scanning capabilities to the SOA arena is an excellent demonstration of the power and flexibility of SAV Interface," declared Richard Baldry, Head of Strategic Alliances at Sophos.