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Catseye™ SPN

 
 

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1. Secure publishing of information from multiple sites to a public portal

Today, one major barrier to publishing dynamic content to any portal is that network administrators must loosen the corporate firewall to allow portal clients to retrieve online information from the corporate LAN. Eutech's Catseye™ Technology removes this significant barrier. This ca-smart™ certified solution enables dynamic content to be published to Computer Associates' award winning Portal, CleverPath™ Portal, much more securely than conventional web technologies.

Traditionally, enterprise portal servers have resided within the corporate network and administrators have had to provide Virtual Private Network (VPN) access to those who wished to access the portal via the Internet. With the Catseye™ solution, portal server can reside in the public domain, thus permitting access to the portal using only an Internet Browser. With the portal deployment in public domain, information from multiple geographical locations can be accessed through same portal window. Thus CEO of a company can now get the consolidated view of various offices by just signing in one in the portal. The information of the respective offices still remain in the office’s private LAN.

Benefits of publishing information to a portal using Catseye™ technology:

  • Allows sensitive, dynamic contents from various business divisions / offices and distributed applications to be securely published to portal
  • Allows publishing contents from remote locations through dial-up & ADSL
  • Avoid having to compromise firewall tightness in publishing dynamic contents to portal
  • Allows remote access to personal data on the corporate desktop or home computer via the portal
Traditional Deployment of Portal Server

Deployment of Portal Server with Catseye


2. Secure access to private portal

Consider a scenario that you have the private portal deployment in the enterprise network. Conventionally this would be accessed from within the network or using VPN from external access which comes with administrative hassle and inflexibility of remote access and is prone to security attacks. With CSPN you would be able to provide a hassle free access to the private portal. Following figure depicts solution.

  Catseye™ SPN is ca-smart™ certified  
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The Catseye™SPN design, which was reviewed by CygnaCom, provides additional security to web server applications that access private backend databases. It allows removal of the database responder logic to a more secure location behind a router and provides protection of that logic from external access and abuse.

The outbound-only connectivity it requires is consistent with accepted firewall configuration guidelines and superior to alternatives that require inbound access to the backend systems.

The custom responder interface presented to the external web server is designed to provide a significant additional barrier to compromise of the responder and abuse of the database access methods via the public network.

CygnaCom Testing and Security labs

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