British American Tobacco has deployed Vordel’s
service-oriented architecture security and management technology to
protect XML communications across its global datacentre
network.
The tobacco giant rolled out Vordel’s VS3000 gateways, which
incorporate traditional gateway security with web services
management.
The devices have been installed to protect corporate information
held on BAT’s SAP back-office system, securing XML-based
communications when staff input or extract data from the
system.
The technology controls staff identity management and ensures
that data conforms with XML communication parameters. It has been
integrated with BAT’s existing security and ID management
systems.
BAT's operations stretch across 180 countries where its products
are sold, and the scalable Vordel technology will allow it to
manage its SOA remotely on a global level. Another factor in
Vordel’s selection was that its technology speeds up the processing
and encryption of XML data.
The Vordel products will allow BAT to track and audit who has
accessed its data, what has been sent and what received.
Gavin Targonski, the company’s technical architect for
application technology strategy, said, “With Vordel, BAT has been
able to deploy a global SOA security infrastructure that aligns
with both our business and technology strategies. The solution is
standards-based and fully conformant to company best practice for
SOA security operations.”
He added that the Vordel products would provide a security and
management framework that would allow BAT to take advantage of its
web services technologies. BAT adopted an SOA based on web services
three years ago in an overhaul of its approach to integration and
application development.
The Vordel contract follows a three-year £6m applications
management contract to improve business processes, signed by BAT
and provider Parity in March.
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