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NEWS RELEASE
Cams 3.0 Web Single Sign-on Update
Offers Automatic Enterprise Sign-On
San Diego, CA, November 18, 2009 - Cafésoft announced today
that it is now shipping an update to the 3.0 release of the Cafésoft
Access Management System (Cams). This new Cams release enables
customers to use their Windows desktop login or virtually any other
third-party or legacy authentication system to automatically logon
to Cams web single sign-on and centralized access management system.
With this new feature, known as Cams Automatic Enterprise Sign-on
(AESO), customers achieve transparent authentication and security
management to web and application servers supported by Cams such
as Apache, IIS, Sun ONE, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Oracle
and Tomcat.
"The release of Cams 3.0 with Automatic Enterprise Sign-on
represents another significant company milestone," said Norbert
Kuhnert, Cafésoft Partner. " Customers including NASA,
the German Federal Government, Panda Restaurant Group, British Police
Information Technology Organization (PITO) and the United States
Department of Defense are using Cams to provide single sign-on for
and protect their important web resources. Now, with Cams AESO,
they can leverage existing enterprise authentications to automatically
and transparently provide secure login to the wide range of web
and application servers Cams protects."
Cams Automatic Enterprise Sign-On (AESO) enables transparent user
authentication into Cams by trusting an enterprise user identity
established outside of Cams. For example, scenarios where customers
will find Cams AESO useful include:
- Windows Domain Login - Use an existing Windows Domain
login to transparently authenticate desktop users into Cams by
configuring the Cams IIS web agent and Cams AESO with roles and
privileges assigned by the Windows Domain Active Directory.
- Kerberos Realm Login - Use the Apache web server, mod_auth_kerb
with the Cams Apache web agent to use the Kerberos protocol to
authenticate users to an MIT Kerberos KDC, a Heimdal Kerberos
KDC, or a Windows Domain.
- Smart Card Login - Use smart cards, like the US military
Common Access Card (CAC), by sending the cards X.509 certificate
or other artifacts of an existing user login to a Cams policy
server.
- One Time Password (OTP) Login - Use Cams AESO with RSA
SecurID, DIGIPASS and other OTP devices by sending the authenticated
user name and/or other artifacts of the user login to a Cams policy
server.
- Biometric Login - Login using fingerprint readers, iris
scanners and other biometric devices with Cams AESO by sending
the authenticated user name and other artifacts of the user login
to a Cams policy server.
- Third Party Application Login - Use other third-party
web sso solutions (such as CA SiteMinder, Oracle Access Manager,
IBM Tivoli Access Manager, etc.), existing web portals, or existing
web applications with Cams AESO to transparently create a Cams
web SSO session based on an existing application session cookie,
HTTP header value, or other authenticated user artifacts.
- HTTP Basic or Digest Login - Use any web server with
a Cams web agent and Cams AESO to transparently create a Cams
session based on HTTP Basic or HTTP Digest user authentication.
In addition to Cams AESO, this Cams policy server and web agent
update also includes many minor enhancement such as:
- Improved internalationalization with character encoding/decoding
support
- New login modules for broader directory server integration
- Improved LDAP login module exception handling
- New map callback handler supports any callback values send with
a Cams authentication request
- Linux web agent distributions available in RPM Format
- Web agent support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and other OpenSSL enhancements
- Support for use of Cams with WebDAV
- Support for creation of secure-only cookies
- Configurable Cams session cookie domain depth
Cams makes sites more secure and manageable by centralizing web
application security policy decisions and management, rather than
implementing security within web applications and web servers. This
centralized approach to web security enables companies to reduce
development and administration time, complexity and costs, while
improving time-to-market, site security and software life-cycle
flexibility. Cams also provides web single sign-on to eliminate
the cost, risk and pain associated with multiple user accounts and
sign-ons for the same web site.
The Cams service oriented architecture provides the security middleware
foundation to easily deploy customized solutions into heterogeneous
environments. The lightweight, Java-based Cams policy server is
easy-to-install and configure and scales to meet the requirements
of large enterprise sites. Cams virtual directory facilitates integration
with one more user directories, including Microsoft Active Directory,
LDAP servers, SQL databases and more. Other product features include:
- Web single sign-on to web and J2EE application servers
- Access control based on roles (RBAC), HTTP query parameters,
database values, date/time, location and custom rules
- Simplified and centralized security policy administration
- Security event logging, analysis and real-time notification
- Flexible customizations via open APIs
- Cross-platform support including Windows, Linux and Solaris
A free Cams Tour is available online at http://www.cafesoft.com.
The Cams Tour is the best way to learn about Cams terminology, architecture
and web application security in general. Cams software licenses
are available starting at $9,995. Free evaluation licenses, which
have access to the production Cams policy server and web agents,
are available for download upon request .
Cafésoft develops and markets Cams, which is a secure, flexible
and affordable web single sign-on and access management software
solution. Organizations around the world use Cams to give employees,
customers and partners secure access to protected web content and
applications. By using Cams, customers: 1) simplify and accelerate
web application security implementation and management; 2) reduce
web application software lifecycle costs; and, 3) improve security
compliance and accountability. Please see
http://www.cafesoft.com for more information.
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