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NEWS RELEASE
NASA Chooses Cams Web Single Sign-on Access
Management
Software Solution for the International Space Station
San Diego, CA July 14, 2004 Cafésoft, a leading
provider of web single sign-on and access management solutions,
today announced that Cafésoft's Cams web single sign-on and
access management product was chosen for NASA's International Space
Station (ISS) project. The International Space Station, or ISS,
represents a global partnership of 16 nations. NASA Johnson Space
Center (JSC) hosts the ground operations that provide primary support
services for ISS, including computing services to a worldwide community
of over 5,000 active users.
NASA purchased Cafésoft Cams and Cams Identity to manage
the diverse ISS user community and their access to ISS web resources.
When fully implemented, all web resources at ISS will be accessed
through Cams to provide web single sign-on, manage user access,
and create a security audit trail for user requests. Access to some
resources will be secured for authenticated users as well as the
user's country of origin.
ISS is configuring authentication by stacking Cams login modules
for multiple Microsoft Active Directory servers and the Sun Java
System Directory Server, a feature unique to Cams. Stacking Cams
login modules enables a user to authenticate against any number
of existing site user directories. Flexible success and fail dependencies
between the directories are configurable. A single valid user authentication
establishes a Cams security session that enables the user to access
all entitled web resources on any web or application server protected
by the Cams policy server and web agents.
ISS has web and application servers that provide public and secure
resources such as static files and dynamic Cold Fusion, Oracle Forms,
PERL, and Java-based web applications. At ISS, Cams provides web
security for resources hosted on:
- Apache 1.3 on Solaris 8
- Apache 2.0 on Windows 2000 Server
- JBoss 3
- Microsoft IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Server
- Oracle 9iAS
- Tomcat 4
Another Cams component in use at ISS is Cams Identity. Cams Identity
is deployed against the Sun Java System Directory Server to provide
self-management of user registration, password reset, and account
update. Also, Cams Identity provides administrator management of
user accounts using a Cams secured HTML graphical user interface.
"NASA's International Space Station is a tremendous achievement
of human ingenuity and cooperation," said Gary Gwin, Cafésoft
president and CEO. "After doing a careful evaluation, NASA
found Cams to have a uniquely flexible architecture, broad support
for web and application servers, and an affordable price. We are
proud to have Cams become an integral part of the infrastructure
that secures web access for the worldwide ISS user community."
Cafésoft develops and markets Cams, which is secure, flexible,
and affordable web single sign-on and access management software.
Businesses around the world use Cams to give employees, customers,
and partners secure access to web resources and applications. By
using Cams, customers: 1) improve time-to-market; 2) reduce development,
support, and training costs; 3) enable secure business relationships;
4) improve security compliance and accountability; and, 5) simplify
security implementation and management. Headquartered in San Diego,
California, Cafésoft is a private company founded in March
of 1996. More information can be found at http://www.cafesoft.com.
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