• September - 2AB demonstrates jLock's support for Governance-Based Access Control in Healthcare
• August - 2AB demonstrates support for CGI's Governance-Based Access Control (GBAC) Features in jLock
• July - 2AB provides a sneak preview of future orb2 management and monitoring tools
• June - 2AB enhances Trusted CORBA® features in orb2 for C/C++ version 3.7
• June - 2AB enhances Trusted CORBA® features in orb2 for Java version 4.2
• March - 2AB enhances security of orb2 Naming Service
• February - 2AB demonstrates new Monitoring and Management Consoles
• February - 2AB announces plans to distribute the iLock Identity Manager with orb2
• January - Visit 2AB at RSA Security 2005 Conference in San Francisco
• October - 2AB enhances Trusted CORBA® offering with release of orb2 for Java Version 4.1
• October - 2AB named Top Birmingham
Technology Company for 2004 by AITA
• September - 2AB announces enhancements to orb2's CSIv2 implementation
• September - 2AB announces jLock Basic Edition
is FREE!
• August - 2AB announces the
availability of jLock Basic and Standard Edition version 4.3
• June - 2AB CEO shares views on
Application Security with AITA membership
• June - Visit 2AB at JavaOne in San
Francisco!
• June - 2AB announces the
availability of a BETA Release of jLock Standard Edition version 4.3
• June - 2AB partners with Borland -
Announces plans to deliver jLock with JBuilder
• May - 2AB releases Whitepaper on
using JAAS with RMI
• April - 2AB becomes Microsoft
Certified Partner
• March - 2AB Inc. announces plans to
fully support OpenVMS products on Itanium Processors
• February - 2AB Inc. announces new JAAS
features for jLock
• February - 2AB releases JAAS
Whitepaper
• February - Visit 2AB at RSA Security
Conference in San Francisco
• January - 2AB releases Whitepaper
defining Access Management
• September - 2AB Inc. announces Plans
to Enhance Support for Microsoft Platforms
• September - 2AB Inc. announces New
Access Management Features in iLock version 4.2
• April - 2AB, Inc. Announces Enhanced
Versions of orb2 for Java, C and C++
• April - 2AB, Inc. adds webLock to
their Enterprise Access Management product suite
• March - 2AB Announces Corporate
Sponsorship of the OMG Middleware that Works! Seminar Series
• January - Bob Burt, 2AB Chief
Product Architect to speak at RSA conference on Secure Interoperability
• September - 2AB, Inc. Announces iLock
Security Services for Enterprise Access Management
• January - 2AB announces release
2.2 of orb2 for Java
Birmingham - January 10, 2009 2AB announces a new release of orb2 for Java - the Trusted CORBA® object request broker. orb2 is an integration platform for developing and managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable. Version 5.1 significantly enhances the security, management and web integration features of orb2 by providing support for JRE 1.6, AIX Security compatiblity enhancements, Enhanced ease of use with Eclipse Development environment, a Trader upgrade and debuggin enhancements.
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new integration, security and management features. The programming language and platform support offered by orb2 is unparalleled. 2AB is committed to continually enhancing support for programming models, operating platforms and wire protocols while maintaining a commitment to interoperability standards.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business. 2AB offers the middleware, identity and access management tools needed by application developers to integrate systems and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, Intel, HP, RedHat, Sun, and Microsoft. The orb2 and iLock product suites are available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris, VOS, and Windows. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham –August 21, 2008 2AB announces a new release of the orb2 for COM/CORBA bridge. orb2 is an integration platform for developing and managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable. The COM/CORBA bridge enables seamless integration between COM objects and CORBA objects. This release enhances the ability for customers to consolidate users on Microsoft servers and enhances the performance of the COM/CORBA bridge.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business. 2AB offers the middleware, identity and access management tools needed by application developers to integrate systems and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, Intel, HP, RedHat, Sun, and Microsoft. The orb2 and iLock product suites are available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris, VOS, and Windows. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham – February 19, 2008 2AB announces a new release of the orb2 for C/C++ - the Trusted CORBA® object request broker. orb2 is an integration platform for developing and managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable.
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new platforms and management features. The programming language and platform support offered by orb2 is unparalleled.This version adds adds several OS 64-bit platforms to the orb2 for C/C++ supported environment. 2AB is committed to continually enhancing support for programming models, operating platforms and wire protocols while maintaining a commitment to interoperability standards.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business. 2AB offers the middleware, identity and access management tools needed by application developers to integrate systems and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, Intel, HP, RedHat, Sun, and Microsoft. The orb2 and iLock product suites are available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris, VOS, and Windows. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham – January 15, 2008 2AB announces a major release of theiLock Security Services Product Suite. These products enable software developers (or web administrators) to easily integrate authentication and application-level authorization services into their software solutions. Products included in this major release are:
• jLock - Scalable JAAS
(Java Authentication and Authorization)
• webLock - Security Services for Web Envrionments
• c/Lock - Scalable C/C++ Authentication and Authorization Services.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business. 2AB offers the middleware, identity and access management tools needed by application developers to integrate systems and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, Intel, HP, RedHat, Sun, and Microsoft. The orb2 and iLock product suites are available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris, VOS, and Windows. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham – November 7, 2007 2AB announces a major release of orb2 for Java - the Trusted CORBA® object request broker. orb2 is an integration platform for developing and managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable. Version 5 significantly enhances the security, management and web integration features of orb2 by providing:
• Security Enhancements
2AB announces a major release of orb2 for Java - the Trusted CORBA® object request broker. orb2 is an integration platform for developing and managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable. Version 5 significantly enhances the security, management and web integration features of orb2 by providing:
• Security Enhancements
o CSIv2 Authentication via GSSUP and/or TLS
o CORBASec: Access Control for CORBA operations
- Security Unaware via interceptors and command-line options
- Security Aware via support for CORBA Security Service APIs
o OMG Resource Access Decision Facility
- Application-level security services
o User and Access Policy Management Tools
• Web Services Features
o IDL to WSDL compiler
o CORBA to WebServices Bridge Generator Source Code
• Management and Monitoring Enhancements
o Name Service Console and Trader Console enhancements
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new integration, security and management features. The programming language and platform support offered by orb2 is unparalleled. 2AB is committed to continually enhancing support for programming models, operating platforms and wire protocols while maintaining a commitment to interoperability standards.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business. 2AB offers the middleware, identity and access management tools needed by application developers to integrate systems and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, Intel, HP, RedHat, Sun, and Microsoft. The orb2 and iLock product suites are available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris, VOS, and Windows. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham – September 7, 2007
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new features to orb2 for Java. This major release bundles the orbLock product features with orb2 to enhance CSIv2, support the CORBA Security Service API's and enable application-level security with the OMG's Resource Access Decision Facility. The BETA2 release resolves issues discovered during internal and customer testing of our BETA and updates the demonstration programs. The BETA2 is available on Windows, Solaris and AIX.
Birmingham – June 15,, 2007
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new features to orb2 for Java. This major release bundles the orbLock product features with orb2 to enhance CSIv2, support the CORBA Security Service API's and enable application-level security with the OMG's Resource Access Decision Facility. Also in this BETA release is the new IDL to WSDL compiler for enabling webservices integration. The BETA is available on Windows.
Birmingham – January 5, 2007
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new features to their orb2 and iLock product lines. In this newsletter 2AB announces plans to bundle orbLock with orb2 in the next major release. The developers corner in this issues provides examples of how to use orbLock for authorization. Also in this issue we provide Sneak Previews of other features of orb2 for Java version 5 and orb2 for C/C++ version 4.
For more information, take a look at the new issue of Harmony - The 2AB Newsletter.
2AB Inc. announces General Availability of orbLock CORBA Security v4.4.
Birmingham – November 7, 2006 2AB Inc., provider of Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces the general availability of orbLock - CORBA Security Power Edition . orbLock includes a CORBA Security Service with advanced features for application-level security supporting authentication and authorization based on ACL-list, role-based, rules-based and entitlement-based access policies. Version 4.4 also includes iLock's Security Services new graphical administrative tool for management of users, groups, roles and CORBA operation access policy.
CORBA IDL can be directly imported for ease of use.
orbLock offers CORBA developers a robust, scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements of business CORBA applications. webLock supports the CSIv2 specifications for authentication and authorization while allowing support for sophisticated access policy. User and access policy management tools allow policy to be developed, managed, evolved and audited without modification to the business logic. orbLock supports both application aware and application unaware security; authentication and authorization is fully configurable..
For more information on webLock, contact salesforce@2ab.com
2AB Inc. announces General Availability of webLock Power Edition v4.4.
Birmingham – October 12, 2006
webLock includes a security realm and servlet filters that leverage the scalable Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) provided by jLock Scalable JAAS Power Edition. webLock provides advanced features for application-level security supporting authentication and authorization based on ACL-list, role-based, rules-based and entitlement-based access policies. 2AB has released two new whitepapers that illustrate how to use weblock's servlet filters and security realm for application-level security. The demonstartions are shown using Tomcat version 5. The papers are availble at: Using webLock's Servlet Filters for Application-level Security and Using webLock's Security Realm and Authorization Filters for Application-level Security.
Birmingham – September 26, 2006
2AB Inc., provider of Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces the general availability of webLock Power Edition. webLock includes a security realm and servlet filters that leverage the scalable Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) provided by jLock Scalable JAAS Power Edition. webLock provides advanced features for application-level security supporting authentication and authorization based on ACL-list, role-based, rules-based and entitlement-based access policies. Version 4.4 also includes iLock's Security Services new graphical administrative tool for management of users, groups, roles and web access policy.
webLock offers Web developers a robust, scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements of business Web-based applications. webLock supports the standard container and servlet specifications for authentication and authorization while allowing support for sophisticated access policy. User and access policy management tools allow policy to be developed, managed, evolved and audited without modification to the business logic or Web infrastructure. webLock requires no coding on the part of the web developer; authentication and authorization is fully configurable. webLock offers a choice of deployment options; as part of the Web infrastructure (deploying a Security Realm and Authorization Filter) or as part of the Web application (deployed as Servlet Authentication and Authorization Filters).
For more information on webLock, contact salesforce@2ab.com
2AB Inc. announces General Availability of jLock Scalable JAAS Power Edition v4.4.
Birmingham – July 17, 2006
2AB Inc., provider of Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces the general availability of the commercial version 4.4 of jLock Scalable JAAS Power Edition, a scalable implementation of the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) with advanced features for application-level security.
jLock provides Java developers a robust, scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements of business applications. jLock supports the standard JAAS APIs while allowing support for ACL-list, role-based, rules-based and entitlement-based access policies. jLock also supports the ability to securely communicate and establish the login context of the original user on the server side of a distributed application. User and access policy management tools remove the burden of embedding access policy and allow policy to be developed, managed, evolved and audited without modification to the business logic.
For more information, contact salesforce@2ab.com
2AB Inc. announces Web Services Features for orb2 Version5
Birmingham – April 24, 2006
2AB Inc., a leading provider of CORBA Solutions for Distributed Business, announces the integration of Web Services features in orb2.
orb2 has been enhanced to support CORBA to WSDL/SOAP Interworking and IDL to WSDL mappings. These are the key features of the CORBA/i specification.
The general availablity of orb2 for Java version 5 is slated for second quarter 2006.
For more information, contact salesforce@2ab.com
2AB Inc. releases source code for jLockOpen Edition version 4.4.
Birmingham – February 16, 2006
2AB Inc., provider of Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces the availability of the source code for jLockOpen, a scalable implementation of the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) with advanced features for application-level security. Licensing options for the source provide a choice between the GNU Public License (GPL) and a commercial license.
jLock provides Java developers a robust, scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements of business applications. jLock supports the standard JAAS APIs while allowing support for ACL-list, role-based, rules-based and entitlement-based access policies. jLock also supports the ability to securely communicate and establish the login context of the original user on the server side of a distributed application. User and access policy management tools remove the burden of embedding access policy and allow policy to be developed, managed, evolved and audited without modification to the business logic.
The source includes the JAAS implementation, the iLock Security Center Service and the standard edition of the jLock Administrative tools. This complete offering provides a scalable implementation of JAAS with graphical Identity Management of Users, Groups and Roles.
2AB will continue to offer and support the jLock Power Edition product.
For more information, contact salesforce@2ab.com
Birmingham – January 11, 2006
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new features to their iLock Security Services product lines and announcing Open Source for jLock's Scalable JAAS. Also in the developers corner is an example of how to use orb2's Identity Manager for authentication.
For more information, take a look at the new issue of Harmony - The 2AB Newsletter.
2AB Inc. announces Open Source plans for jLock Scalable JAAS.
Birmingham – January 10, 2006
2AB Inc., provider of Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces plans to Open Source jLock, a scalable implementation of the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) with advanced features for application-level security. Licensing options for the source provide a choice between the GNU Public License (GPL) and a commercial license.
jLock provides Java developers a robust, scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements of business applications. jLock supports the standard JAAS APIs while allowing support for ACL-list, role-based, rules-based and entitlement-based access policies. jLock also supports the ability to securely communicate and establish the login context of the original user on the server side of a distributed application. User and access policy management tools remove the burden of embedding access policy and allow policy to be developed, managed, evolved and audited without modification to the business logic.
The open source plans includes the JAAS implementation, the iLock Security Center Service and the standard edition of the jLock Administrative tools. This complete offering provides a scalable implementation of JAAS with graphical Identity Management of Users, Groups and Roles.
2AB will continue to offer and support the jLock Power Edition product. Current commercial licensees of jLock will be provided access to the source immediately. General availability of the open source version is planned before the end of 1st quarter.
For more information, contact salesforce@2ab.com
2AB demonstrates jLock's support for Governance-Based Access Control (GBAC) in Healthcare.
Birmingham – September 30, 2005
2AB has released a demonstration CD and new whitepaper that demonstrate how jLock's scalable JAAS can be used for
Governance Based Access Control using scenarios from the healthcare community. The paper is:
"Using jLock's Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) for Governance-Based Access Control (GBAC) in Healthcare"
For more information or a copy of the Healthcare demonstration CD, contact salesforce@2ab.com
2AB demonstrates support for CGI's Goverance Based Access Control (GBAC) Features.
Birmingham – August 30, 2005 CGI (www.cgi.com) has released a whitepaper,
"Governance-Based Access Control: Enabling improved information sharing that meets compliance requirements," introducing a new model for access control.
This model, called Governance-Based Access Control (GBAC), is focused on the classification of information assets for the purpose of information sharing in an environment where:
• Many organizations may require access to information
• Information may be accessed by, or shared with, external users
• Everyone may be subject to compliance with multiple authorities and jurisdictions
In a previous whitepaper, "Using jLock's Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) for Application-Level Security," we described a systematic approach to using JAAS to manage the complexity associated with software access management. We explained the JAAS service-oriented architecture (SOA), which maintains a clean separation of concerns between application functionality and access management, and discussed the types of JAAS features that a scalable JAAS implementation should support.
2AB has released a demonstration CD and two new whitepapers that demonstrate how jLock can be used for
Governance Based Access Control using the scenarios in the CGI whitepapers. The papers are:
"Using jLock's Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) for Governance-Based Access Control (GBAC)"
"Using OMG's Resource Access Decision (RAD) Facility Model for Governance-Based Access Control (GBAC)"
For more information or a copy of the demonstration CD, contact salesforce@2ab.com
Birmingham – July 20, 2005
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new integration, security and management features. In Harmony, the 2AB Newsletter released today we provide a sneak preview of the advanced monitoring and management capabilities we are adding to orb2. Any CORBA® service registered can be monitored and managed. This visibility into the runtime environment is missing in many middleware environments and is necessary for problem analysis, performance tuning, and monitoring of business services. For more information, take a look at Harmony - The 2AB Newsletter.
Birmingham – June 21, 2005 2AB announces release 3.7 of orb2 for C/C++ - the Trusted CORBA® object request broker. orb2 is an integration platform for developing and managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable. This release enhances the security and management features of orb2 by providing:
• New Naming Service Management Console for remote browsing and administration of OMG / JNDI naming services (multi-platform/multi-vendor)
• New Trader Service Management Console for remote browsing and administration of orb2 Trader services on multiple platforms
• Support for new addressing and naming formats enable enhanced security for services when accessed via Internet applications and/or VPNs
• An Identity Manager to support the administration of role-based access control for secured Naming Services
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new integration, security and management features. The programming language and platform support offered by orb2 is unparalleled. 2AB is committed to continually enhancing support for programming models, operating platforms and wire protocols while maintaining a commitment to interoperability standards.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business. 2AB offers the middleware, identity and access management tools needed by application developers to integrate systems and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, HP, Sun, Microsoft and Stratus. The orb2 and iLock product suites are available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris, VOS, Windows and z/OS. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham – June 7, 2005 2AB announces release 4.2 of orb2 for Java - the Trusted CORBA® object request broker. orb2 is an integration platform for developing and managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable. This release enhances the security and management features of orb2 by providing:
• New security options available for protecting the orb2 naming service
• New Naming Service Management Console for remote browsing and administration of OMG / JNDI naming services (multi-platform/multi-vendor)
• New Trader Service Management Console for remote browsing and administration of orb2 Trader services on multiple platforms
• Identity Manager Administrative tool and Security Center service to provide user, group and role-based access control for CORBA® servers
• Naming Console leverages new role-based identity management capabilities of orb2 for protecting access to secured naming services
2AB continues to demonstrate their commitment to trusted middleware by adding new integration, security and management features. The programming language and platform support offered by orb2 is unparalleled. 2AB is committed to continually enhancing support for programming models, operating platforms and wire protocols while maintaining a commitment to interoperability standards.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business. 2AB offers the middleware, identity and access management tools needed by application developers to integrate systems and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, HP, Sun, Microsoft and Stratus. The orb2 and iLock product suites are available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris, VOS, Windows and z/OS. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
2AB enhances security of Naming Services
Birmingham – March 14, 2005 2AB announced today that they are enhancing the security options
available with their orb2 Naming Service by fully supporting the CSIv2 specification, including both TLS and GSSUP
authentication. Users of the orb2 Naming service may use GSSUP (UserID/Password client authentication) with or without TLS.
The Naming Console may be used to browse, manage and monitor Naming Services and will utilize the appropriate
authenitcation based upon the requirements of each service. In addition, 2AB is announcing plans to
provide role and rules based access control on the contents (Naming Contexts and Objects) of Naming Services in a future release.
Birmingham – February 25, 2005 2AB demonstrated today two new graphical management tools for their
orb2 customers. The orb2 Naming Service and Trader Consoles are intuitive to use and provide
enhanced visibility into running distributed environments. The Naming Console may be used to browse, manage and monitor J2EE, Java or
CORBA Naming Services. The Trader Console is available for orb2 Traders. These tools will be made available in the next maintenance
release at no charge for customer who have an active support and maintenace agreement. For more information,
including screen shots, please contact salesforce@2ab.com
Birmingham – February 15, 2005 2AB announced today at RSA that they will be enhancing their Trusted CORBA® Enterprise object request broker
security by bundling the iLock Identity Manager in the next release. orb2 for Java supports CSIv2
security using TLS and/or GSSUP authentication. CSIv2 is being added to orb2 for C as well and both products will
bundle iLock Identity Manager. Customers wishing to use GSSUP with or without TLS may utilize orb2's Identity Manager or choose to plug-in a 3rd party
authenticator to the orb2 CSIv2 offering. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham, AL – January 1, 2005 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business will be
demonstrating their iLock Security Services products at the RSA
conference the week of February 14th in San Francisco. The iLock suite
of products are specifically designed to support the sophisticated
policy required for fine-grain access control in distributed applications that have
legislated privacy and confidentiality requirements. iLock technology
also provides dynamic policy update capabilities and high performance
caching.
Whitepapers What is Access Management?, Using
jLock's JAAS for Access Management and Using
jLock's JAAS with Java RMI
are available for downloading.
2AB enhances Trusted CORBA® offering with release of orb2
for C/C++ version 3.6
Birmingham – November 19, 2004 2AB releases orb2
for C/C++ version 3.6 -
the Trusted CORBA® Enterprise object request broker. The focus of orb2 for C/C++ version 3.6 is on
expanded support for 64 bit operating platforms such as Itanuium for HP-UX and OpenVMS. This release also
has new features designed to make development easier.
2AB is a business partner of IBM, HP, Sun,
Microsoft and Stratus. The orb2 and iLock product suites are
available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris,
VOS, Windows and z/OS. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham – October 29, 2004 2AB releases orb2
for Java version 4.1 -
the Trusted CORBA® object request broker - with enhanced security features. orb2 supports
the Common Secure Interoperability Version 2 (CSIv2) protocol. While most orb2 support the
transport layer of CSIv2 (SSL/TLS), many CORBA® implementations do not support the
Client Authentication Layer which enables interoperabilty for GSSUP authenticators and Identity Tokens.
In addition to support for CSv2 Client Authentication, version 4.1 now allows customers to replace
2AB's CSIv2 authenticator and Identity Manager with a 3rd party authenticator for maximum flexibility.
orb2 also fully supports replaceable security providers at the protocol layer (SSL/TLS)
and enhances the CSIv2 specification by offering auditing capabilities not a part of the specification
Companies who need to restrict access to CORBA
operations with role-based policy and/or API's to support Application-Level security requirements,
can complete their Trusted CORBA® infrastructure with orbLock - a member of the iLock Security Services product suite.
About 2AB:
2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business.
Providing standards-based infrastructure to integrate and protect
business and personal information is the goal of their trusted
infrastructure products. 2AB’s products enable customers to meet the
requirements of global privacy and confidentiality legislation while
maintaining consistent, auditable access control policy across an
enterprise that includes diverse technology. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, HP, Sun,
Microsoft and Stratus. The orb2 and iLock product suites are
available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX (PA-RISC and ia64), OpenVMS (ALPHA and ia64), Linux, Solaris,
VOS, Windows and z/OS. Founded in 1997, 2AB is
privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham, AL – October 21, 2004 The Alabama Information
Technology Association (AITA) announced the finalists for the 2004
Technoloogy Company of the year at their annual Innovation in Technology Banquet.
2AB was one of only three finalists named in the Small Business
Category and the only Birmingham-area based business. For more
information
on 2AB Products and services, contact salesforce@2ab.com.
Birmingham, AL – September 30, 2004 2AB announced today that their CSIv2
implmentation will also
support third party authenticators in version 4.1. With this release, customers will have increased
flexibility in their choice of authentication technology for use with the CSIv2 protocol.
This includes certificate-based, userId password-based, and token based authenticators.
2AB's CSIv2 implementation already supported replaceable security providers at the protocol level
(SSL/TLS) and also supports auditing capabilities which are beyond the requirements of the CSIv2 standards.
2AB's orbLock product provides additional standard CORBA security services beyond CSIv2
such as CORBA Security to allow authorization services for CORBA
operations and API's to support Application-Level security requirements.
Birmingham, AL – September 15, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces a free version of jLock,
their Scalable Java Authentication and Authorization
Service (JAAS). jLock Basic edition is perfect for small business or ISV's who need to
provide access control "out of the box" as part of their
applications. jLock Basic includes
the JAAS API's, and a Graphical Administrative Tool that is
very easy to understand and use. Basic edition support access policy based on
users, groups and/or roles. jLock standard can be upgraded to the Standard or Power Editions
by simply installing a new license file.
For more information regarding jLock, contact salesforce@2ab.com
Birmingham, AL – August 31, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces the
latest release of their Scalable Java Authentication and Authorization
Service (JAAS) is generally available. jLock provides Java developers a
robust scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements
of business applications. It supports the standard JAAS API’s while
allowing support for ACL-list, role-based, rules-based, and
entitlement-based access policies. jLock also supports the ability to
securely communicate and establish the login context of the original
user on the server side of a distributed application.
“Our goal for this release is to make access management easy
for administrators to understand and simple for developers to use.
Administrators and programmers are going to really appreciate the
changes we've made.” stated Mitchel Sanders, 2AB CTO. jLock Basic and
Standard edition now has a new Graphical Administrative Tool that is
very easy to understand and use. The JAAS API's have been extended
in this release to significantly enhanced support for application-level
security.
jLock is be offered in Basic, Standard and Power
Editions. For more information regarding licensing, contact salesforce@2ab.com
Birmingham, AL – July 1, 2004 2AB announced today that they
have successfully ported orb2 for C/C++ and Java to the I64
architecture for a variety of operating systems. orb2 for C/C++ version
3.6 will be available this fall for a variety of 64 bit architectures
running HPUX, AIX, Server2003, Linux and Solaris.
"We have worked very closely with HP to migrate to the Itanium-2
architecture for HP-UX and OpenVMS" noted Mike Nagy, 2AB Vice
President. "We currently plan to release these platforms first, with
Server2003, Solaris, AIX and Linux following closely behind". 2AB will
also deliver the iLock Access Management product suite (version 4.3)
and orb2 for Java (version 4.2) on these platforms this year. For more
information
on release dates, contact salesforce@2ab.com.
Birmingham, AL – June 29, 2004 2AB Inc., President & CEO
shares her views on Application Security with the Alabmama Information
Technology Association membership today. Slides from the presentation
are available for download at: Access Management: The Application Security
Challenge.
San Francisco – June 28, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of Access
Management Solutions for Distributed Business is demonstrating their
jLock Scalable JAAS product at the JavaOne conference this week in San
Francisco. jLock is designed to ease integration of sophisticated
policy required for fine-grain access control in applications that have
legislated privacy and confidentiality requirements. jLock technology
also provides dynamic policy update capabilities and high performance
caching.
Whitepapers on Using
jLock's JAAS for Access Management and Using jLock's JAAS
with RMI are available for downloading.
Birmingham, AL – June 15, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces the
latest release of their Scalable Java Authentication and Authorization
Service (JAAS) BETA is available. jLock provides Java developers a
robust scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements
of business applications. It supports the standard JAAS API’s while
allowing support for ACL-list, role-based, rules-based, and
entitlement-based access policies. jLock also supports the ability to
securely communicate and establish the login context of the original
user on the server side of a distributed application.
“Our goal for this release is to make access management easy
for administrators to understand and simple for developers to use.
Administrators and programmers are going to really appreciate the
changes we've made.” stated Mitchel Sanders, 2AB CTO. jLock Basic and
Standard edition now has a new Graphical Administrative Tool that is
very easy to understand and use. The JAAS API's have also been extended
in this release to significantly enhanced support for application-level
security.
jLock will not be offered in Basic, Standard and Enterprise
Editions. Companies who work with 2AB to test and provide feedback on
the BETA release will be offered licensing discounts. For a copy of the
BETA and more information regarding licensing, contact salesforce@2ab.com
Announces plans to deliver jLock with next release of
JBuilder®
Birmingham, AL – June 9, 2004 2AB, provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business, announces today that they have
partnered with Borland and will ship the jLock Scalable JAAS product
with the next release of JBuilder.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Borland to make Java
security standards easy for developers to understand
and use. Borland is the leader in providing programmer productivity
tools.” commented Mitchel Sanders, 2AB Chief Technology Officer. 2AB is
targeting release 4.3 of jLock's scalable JAAS to be shipped with the
new release of JBuilder this fall.
Birmingham, AL – May 12, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of Access
Management Solutions for Distributed Business has made available a new
Whitepaper Using
jLock's JAAS with Java RMI This paper explores how a robust
scalable JAAS implementation can be used to meet the challenges
of access management for distributed Java business applications.
iLock Enterprise version 4.2 passes certification testing
Birmingham, AL – April 7, 2004 2AB, provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business, announces today that they have been
named a Microsoft Certified Partner
after iLock version 4.2 passed MicroSoft certification testing.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Microsoft to make access
management solutions that are easy for developers to understand
and use available with certification assurance on the Microsoft
operating platforms.” commented Mitchel Sanders, 2AB Chief Technology
Officer. 2AB focuses on access management solutions that integrate
diverse technical environments and partners with industry leaders in
providing programmer productivity tools.
2AB Partners with HP to certify orb2 and iLock products
Integrity Server ready
Birmingham, AL – March 1, 2004 2AB, provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business, announces today that they are
working with HP to port all their OpenVMS products
to the Itanium processor.
“We are pleased to be partnering with HP to make middleware
and access management solutions that are easy for developers to
understand
and use available on the next generation of OpenVMS. Our experience
with the OpenVMS Beta on Itanium has been very positive and we are
confident we will deliver concurrent with HP's delivery of the OS.”
commented Mike Nagy, 2AB Vice President. 2AB focuses on access
management solutions that integrate diverse technical environments and
partners with industry leaders in providing middleware and access
management tools.
For more info, visit
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/partners/2ab/ and see page 25 of
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/roadmap/openvms_roadmaps_files/OPENVMS_ROADMAPS.PDF
Birmingham, AL – February 25, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business, announces
scalable Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) features
for application security. jLock provides Java developers a robust
scalable solution to the fine-grain access control requirements of
business applications. It supports the standard JAAS API’s while
allowing support for ACL-list, role-based, rules-based, and
entitlement-based access policies. jLock also supports the ability to
securely communicate and establish the login context of the original
user on the server side of a distributed application. User and access
policy management tools remove the burden of embedding access policy
and allow policy to be managed independently of the business
application.
“Our goal is to make access management easy to understand and
simple for developers to use without restricting the policy model to a
particular paradigm such as acl-list or role-based,” stated Mitchel
Sanders, 2AB CTO. “jLock provides what Java developers need; a service
that supports introduction of software guards as a separate
architectural aspect of their business solutions. Access policies can
be developed, managed, evolved and audited without modification to the
business logic.”
The iLock 4.2 product suite (of which jLock is a member) is
being demonstrated this week at the RSA Security Conference in San
Francisco. The iLock suite of products are specifically designed to
support the sophisticated policy required for fine-grain access control
in applications that have legislated privacy and confidentiality
requirements. iLock technology also provides dynamic policy update
capabilities and high performance caching.
About 2AB:
2AB is a provider of Access Management Solutions for Distributed
Business. Providing standards-based tools that make access management
simple to understand and easy to use by business developers is a key
goal of their access management products. 2AB’s products enable
customers to meet the fine-grain access control requirements of federal
privacy and confidentiality legislation while maintaining consistent,
auditable access control policy across an enterprise that includes
diverse technology. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held and
headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more information, please
see http://www.2ab.com.
Birmingham, AL – February 16, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business has made available
a new Whitepaper Using
jLock's JAAS for Access Management This paper explores how a robust
scalable JAAS implementation can be used to meet the challenges
of access management in Java business applications.
Birmingham, AL – January 1, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business will be
demonstrating their iLock Security Services products at the RSA
conference the week of February 23rd in San Francisco. The iLock suite
of products are specifically designed to support the sophisticated
policy required for fine-grain access control in applications that have
legislated privacy and confidentiality requirements. iLock technology
also provides dynamic policy update capabilities and high performance
caching.
A whitepaper What is Access Management?
is available for downloading.
Birmingham, AL – January 12, 2004 2AB Inc., provider of
Access Management Solutions for Distributed Business has made available
a new Whitepaper What is Access Management?
This paper explores the requirements for access management and why this
is an increasingly challenging problem
for business applications.
Offer includes IONA Orbix®, Hitachi TPBroker® and
Borland VisiBroker®
Birmingham, AL – November 24, 2003 2AB, provider of
Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business, announces today that for a
limited time they will offer an aggressive competitive-upgrade
licensing program for the orb2 product suite.
Products eligible for competitive upgrade include commercial orbs such
as IONA’s Orbix®, Hitachi’s TPBroker® and Borland’s
VisiBroker®. orb2 ships with two location services – Naming and
Trading - plus a graphical management tool for monitoring,
administering and managing CORBA® services.
“Many companies are looking for an alternative to their
existing CORBA solution. This program removes the pain of capital
expense while allowing migration to a fully supported product for their
mission-critical applications,” noted Marty Byrne, 2AB Business
Development Manager.
orb2 offers an integration platform for developing and
managing distributed applications that are secure, flexible and
interoperable. “We believe that when you offer middleware technology,
you need to support the diversity of platforms that drive integration
requirements,” stated Carol Burt, 2AB President and CEO. orb2 is
available for Java, C and C++ on AIX, HP-UX, OpenVMS, Linux, Solaris,
VOS, Window and z/OS. 2AB is a business partner of IBM, HP, Sun,
Stratus and Microsoft.
About 2AB:
2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business.
Providing standards-based infrastructure to integrate and protect
business and personal information is the goal of their trusted
infrastructure products. 2AB’s products enable customers to meet the
requirements of federal privacy and confidentiality legislation while
maintaining consistent, auditable access control policy across an
enterprise that includes diverse technology. Founded in 1997, 2AB is
privately held. For more information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Enhancements include support for Server2003, Active Directory
and .NET
Birmingham, AL – September 23, 2003 2AB Inc., provider of
Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business, announces plans to expand
support for Microsoft technologies for their iLock Enterprise Access
Management products. 2AB announced earlier this week enhancements in
version 4.2 that focus on expanding capabilities for fine-grain access
control policies and leveraging existing identity infrastructure within
business applications. This includes native support for
entitlement-based access policies, seamless integration with LDAP-based
identity services and enhanced programmatic interfaces for seamless
integration of customized user interfaces for business applications.
2AB announces today that concurrent with support for Server2003, 2AB
will support seamless integration of Microsoft Active Directory as an
option for customers using iLock Security Services. 2AB also plans to
customize their development framework for the .NET environment.
iLock Security Services products provide the foundation for
Enterprise Access Management in heterogeneous, distributed application
environments. iLock provides common access management infrastructure
for applications that span diverse operating platforms. Access policies
can be developed, managed, evolved and audited without modification to
the business logic.
The iLock 4.2 product suite, which provides application-level
access management services, was demonstrated last week at the META
Group Information Security and Risk Management Conference. The iLock
products are specifically designed to support the sophisticated policy
required for fine-grain access control in applications that have
legislated privacy and confidentiality requirements. The core iLock
Security Center technology also provides dynamic policy update
capabilities and high performance caching.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions
for Distributed Business. Providing standards-based infrastructure to
integrate and protect business and personal information is the goal of
their trusted infrastructure products. 2AB’s products enable customers
to meet the requirements of federal privacy and confidentiality
legislation while maintaining consistent, auditable access control
policy across an enterprise that includes diverse technology. 2AB
professional services focus on providing application security
consulting, model driven architecture and component software solutions
utilizing distributed technologies such as XML, SOAP, J2EE and CORBA on
diverse operating platforms. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held and
headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more information, please
see http://www.2ab.com.
Features include Entitlements and seamless integration with
LDAP directories
Birmingham, AL – September 23, 2003 2AB Inc., provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business, announces significant new
features in their iLock Enterprise Access Management products. The
enhancements in version 4.2 focus on expanding capabilities for
fine-grain access control policies and leveraging existing identity
infrastructure within business applications. iLock 4.2 includes native
support for entitlement-based access policies, seamless integration
with LDAP-based identity services and enhanced programmatic interfaces
for seamless integration of customized user interfaces for business
applications.
iLock Security Services products provide the foundation for
Enterprise Access Management in heterogeneous, distributed application
environments. “As the business requirements for access control in
applications increase, customers are realizing that a significant
portion of their software development is devoted to these fine-grain
access control services,” stated Mitchel Sanders, 2AB CTO. “iLock
provides what these developers need; a service that supports fine-grain
access control as a separate architectural aspect of their business
solutions. Access policies can be developed, managed, evolved and
audited without modification to the business logic.”
META Group security analyst Earl Perkins predicts that “as
businesses begin to put more focus on design for application
securability and service oriented architecture, application-specific
security mechanisms will migrate to infrastructure.”
The iLock 4.2 product suite, which provides application-level
access management services, was demonstrated last week at the META
Group Information Security and Risk Management Conference. The iLock
products are specifically designed to support the sophisticated policy
required for fine-grain access control in applications that have
legislated privacy and confidentiality requirements. The core iLock
Security Center technology also provides dynamic policy update
capabilities and high performance caching.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions
for Distributed Business. Providing standards-based infrastructure to
integrate and protect business and personal information is the goal of
their trusted infrastructure products. 2AB’s products enable customers
to meet the requirements of federal privacy and confidentiality
legislation while maintaining consistent, auditable access control
policy across an enterprise that includes diverse technology. 2AB
professional services focus on providing application security
consulting, model driven architecture and component software solutions
utilizing distributed technologies such as XML, SOAP, J2EE and CORBA on
diverse operating platforms. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held and
headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more information, please
see http://www.2ab.com.
Features include RMI/IIOP and consistent services,
configuration and management
Birmingham, AL— April 17, 2003
2AB, provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business,
announces the general availability of orb2TM
for Java version 4.0 and orb2 for C/C++ version 3.5. orb2 offers an
integration platform for developing and managing distributed
applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable. The Java
release adds support for the RMI/IIIOPâ programming model,
ensuring seamless interoperability with J2EE application servers. orb2
also supports Common Secure Interoperability (CSIv2), the industry
standard for secure communications between J2EE and CORBA®
services. The C/C++ release provides consistency in the services,
configuration, and management across the product line. Both products
ship with two location services – Naming and Trading. Also included is
the eXplorerTM Console, a graphical
management tool for monitoring, administering and managing CORBA
services.
“These releases continue our commitment to destroy the
boundaries created by heterogeneous platforms. We are delivering on the
promise we made to our customers to continuously improve our CORBA
products by adding new interoperability, security and management
features,” stated Mitchel Sanders, 2AB Chief Technology Officer.
CORBA is mature middleware that has a proven return on
investment. The programming language and platform support offered by
orb2 is unparalleled. “When you offer middleware technology, you need
to support the diversity of platforms that drive integration
requirements,” stated Carol Burt, 2AB President and CEO. “2AB is
committed to continually enhancing support for programming models,
operating platforms, and wire protocols while maintaining a commitment
to interoperability standards”.
About 2AB:
2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed BusinessSM.
Providing standards-based infrastructure to integrate and protect
business and personal information is the goal of their trusted
infrastructure products. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held and
headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more information, please
see http://www.2ab.com.
Note to Editors: 2AB, orb2 and eXplorer are trademarks of
2AB, Inc. CORBA and IIOP are registered trademarks of the Object
Management Group. Java and RMI are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. All
other trademarks are the property of their holders.
Release offers configurable web authentication and access
management
Birmingham, AL— April 16, 2003 2AB, provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business, announced the general
availability of webLockTM as the
newest offering in the iLockTM
Security Services product suite. webLock provides a security realm and
highly configurable filters and valves for use with standard Web
Servers and Servlet containers. It supports authentication of web users
and controls access to Web resources (e.g. HTML pages, CGI scripts,
Servlets, and/or JavaServer Pages). Access policy for Web-based
resources may be based on URL components and/or the client host
machine. Graphical remote administration tools support the development
of multi-rule, time-based access policies based on accessids, groups
and/or roles. webLock uses the iLock Security Center technology,
enabling the customer to take advantage of the dynamic policy update
capabilities, high performance caching and sophisticated policy support
of this mature core technology.
iLock Security Services products provide the foundation for
Enterprise Identity and Access Management in heterogeneous distributed
computing environments. The full product suite includes webLock for Web
/ Web Services environments, jLock for Java / J2EE environments, and
orbLock for CORBA® environments. “Customers have realized that
authentication isn’t enough and are currently using jLock’s application
programming interface to build custom access control filters that
protect their fine-grain web resources. While this continues to be an
option for them, we wanted to offer a configurable product for the web
environment that supports both authentication and access control.
webLock addresses this need and offers the full benefits of our mature
core iLock technology,” stated Mitchel Sanders, 2AB’s Chief Technology
Officer.
The iLock product suite is being demonstrated in the 2AB booth
at the RSA Security Conference this week in San Francisco where Bob
Burt, the iLock Product Architect, will be presenting on secure
interoperability standards. iLock is designed to meet the sophisticated
policy requirements for fine-grain access control in applications that
have legislated privacy and confidentiality requirement. iLock is
offered on a variety of operating system platforms including AIX,
HP-UX, Linux, Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP, OpenVMS, and Solaris. z/OS
is also planned for 3Q2003.
About 2AB:
2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed BusinessSM. Providing standards-based
infrastructure to integrate and protect business and personal
information is the goal of their trusted infrastructure products. 2AB’s
products enable customers to meet the requirements of federal privacy
and confidentiality legislation while maintaining consistent, auditable
access control policy across an enterprise that includes diverse
technology. 2AB professional services focus on providing application
security consulting, model driven architecture and component software
solutions utilizing distributed technologies such as XML, SOAP, J2EE
and CORBA on diverse operating platforms. Founded in 1997, 2AB is
privately held and headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more
information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Note to Editors: 2AB, orbLock, iLock, jLock, webLock, are
trademarks of 2AB, Inc. CORBA is a registered trademark of the Object
Management Group. JAVA is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. All other
trademarks are the property of their holders.
Birmingham, AL— March 31, 2003 2AB, provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business announced today that they will
be a corporate sponsor of the summer seminar series Middleware that
Works! hosted by the Object Management Group.
The return on investment in CORBA/IIOP® middleware has
been proven. With the maturity of the technology it has gained respect
for it's focus on systems integration and as the foundation of new
programming models. "We are delighted to join analysts and other vendor
sponsors in sharing information about how CORBA® technology has
changed the landscape of systems integration and distributed product
development," stated Carol Burt, 2AB President and CEO.
Birmingham, AL— January 15, 2003 2AB, provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business, announces that Bob Burt, their
Chief Product Architect has been selected to present in the standards
track at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco on April 16,
2003. Bob will be presenting Inside CSIv2 - Common Secure
Interoperability.
2AB will be demonstrating their iLockTM
Security Services product suite at RSA. iLock Security Services
products provide the foundation for Enterprise Identity and Access
Management in heterogeneous distributed computing environments. The
full product suite includes webLock for Web / Web Services
environments, jLock for Java / J2EE environments, and orbLock for
CORBA® environments. 2AB also provides secure CORBA® technology
via their orb2 product which supports the Common Secure
Interoperability (CSIv2) specification for J2EE and CORBA®
integration.
Release offers centralized enterprise access management
across multiple technologies.
Birmingham, AL— September 17, 2002 2AB, provider of Trusted
Solutions for Distributed Business, announced today the general
availability of orb2TM for Java
version
2.3. orb2 offers an integration platform for developing and managing
distributed applications that are secure, flexible and interoperable.
2AB has enhanced this
implementation to provide support for CORBA® 2.6 compliant
features. This release adds support for Common Secure Interoperability
(CSIv2), the industry standard for
secure communications between J2EE and CORBA services. orb2’s CSIv2
implementation supports secure transport, authentication, delegation,
authorization and
access control. New in this release is the eXplorerTM
Console, a graphical enterprise management tool for monitoring,
administering and managing CORBA services.
eXplorer is extensible to allow service management of all
CORBA-compliant servers in your environment. Also bundled with this
release are two location services – the orb2
Trader Service and an OMG Naming Service.
"We are delivering on the promises we made to our customers to
continuously improve our CORBA products by adding the security and
management features they have
requested. Our goal is to leverage standards to enable the secure
interoperability of CORBA, Java and Web services under a single
consistent security policy and
management domain. This release of orb2 demonstrates our commitment to
provide secure, reliable, scalable, trusted infrastructure for
distributed solutions and to seamlessly
integrate with iLock Security Services for Java and Web services,"
stated Mitchel Sanders, 2AB Chief Technology Officer.
The CORBA architecture realized in 2AB’s robust,
multi-threaded implementation enables orb2 to securely and reliably
scale to support billions of objects in system
integrations. orb2 is also available for C and C++, allowing business
functionality within existing applications, and written in other
programming languages, to be leveraged in
system integrations and e-business web environments. orb2 for C/C++
version 4.0 will include secure interoperability. The diversity of
platform support offered by orb2 is
unparalleled, including multiple versions of Windows, UNIX, OpenVMS and
VOS with Linux, OS/390 and z/OS support planned for 2003.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions
for Distributed BusinessSM. Providing standards-based
infrastructure to integrate and protect business and personal
information is the goal of their trusted infrastructure products. 2AB’s
products enable customers to meet the requirements of federal privacy
and confidentiality legislation while maintaining consistent auditable
access control policy across an enterprise that includes diverse
technology. 2AB professional services focus on providing application
security consulting, model driven architecture and component software
solutions utilizing distributed technologies such as XML, SOAP, J2EE
and CORBA on diverse operating platforms Founded in 1997, 2AB is
privately held and headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more
information, please see http://www.2ab.com.
Note to Editors: 2AB, orbLock, iLock, jLock, webLock, orb2
and eXplorer are trademarks of 2AB, Inc. CORBA is a registered
trademark of the Object Management Group. JAVA is a trademark of Sun
Microsystems. All other trademarks are the property of their holders.
Release offers centralized enterprise access management
across multiple technologies.
Birmingham, AL— September 3, 2002 2AB, provider of
Trusted Solutions for Distributed Business announces availability of
iLockTM Security Services version 4.0 for Java, CORBA and Web Services
environments. iLock Security Services is a mature access control and
policy management technology. It includes user management supporting
groups and roles, role-based access control, entitlements and
multi-rule time-based access policies. The new release expands the
product capabilities to include consistent user and policy management
across diverse infrastructure technologies (such as Web Services, J2EE
and CORBA).
The release introduces jLockTM for native Java and J2EE
environments and webLockTM for Web and Web Services. orbLockTM, a
security service for CORBA environments has been enhanced to include
CSIv2 – the standard for secure interoperability between J2EE and
CORBA. Also available with this release is iLock Enterprise, an
enterprise access management product that leverages industry standards
for secure interoperability of Java, CORBA and Web Services under a
shared security policy and management domain.
The lack of auditable access control is a serious threat for
enterprises that face customer and consumer demand to expose services
on the web while meeting legislated privacy and confidentiality
requirements. “Today, it is almost impossible to manage consistent
auditable access control policy across an enterprise. This is a serious
risk and the administrative cost of protecting information is
staggering. We are not satisfied with making it possible – our goal is
to make it easy.” stated Carol Burt, 2AB Chief Executive Officer.
iLock Security Services version 4.0 BETA has been released to
iLock 3.2 customers and qualified development partners. General
availability of iLock Enterprise, jLock, and orbLock 4.0 is scheduled
for October 2002 on a variety of operating platforms. See http://www.2ab.com/dev_part.htm
for information on joining the development partner program. Qualified
applications will be eligible to defer significant licensing costs
until the iLock secured solution is ready for production.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions
for Distributed BusinessSM. Providing standards-based infrastructure to
integrate and protect business and personal information is the goal of
their trusted infrastructure products. 2AB’s products enable customers
to meet the requirements of federal privacy and confidentiality
legislation while maintaining consistent auditable access control
policy across an enterprise that includes diverse technology. 2AB
professional services focus on providing application security
consulting, model driven architecture and component software solutions
utilizing distributed technologies such as XML, SOAP, J2EE and CORBA on
diverse operating platforms Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held and
headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more information, please
see http://www.2ab.com.
Note to Editors: 2AB, orbLock, iLock, jLock, webLock, orb2
and eXplorer are trademarks of 2AB, Inc. CORBA is a registered
trademark of the Object Management Group. JAVA is a trademark of Sun
Microsystems. All other trademarks are the property of their holders.
Release provides foundation of Integration Platform for
Trusted Solutions
Birmingham, AL— January 8, 2002 2AB, provider of the
Integration Platform for Trusted Solutions announced today the general
availability of orb2 for JAVA release 2.2. 2AB’s orb2 offers an
integration platform for developing and managing distributed
applications that are open, secure, flexible and interoperable. The
orb2 products deliver industry-standard CORBA®/IIOP as the
fundamental technology behind 2AB’s trusted integration platform. 2AB
has enhanced their implementation of the portable object adapter (POA)
architecture to provide support for recently standardized CORBA®
features such as portable interceptors (PI) and to improve footprint
and performance characteristics. The CORBA® architecture realized
in 2AB’s robust, multi-threaded implementation enables orb2 to reliably
scale to support billions of objects. Bundled with this release are two
location services – the orb2 Trading and an OMG Naming Service. Feature
enhancements also include new graphical administration tools that
enhance visibility and ease management of distributed solutions.
"CORBA is pervasive, but hardly noticed --- like the air we
breathe. Together with other OMG standards, it embodies the
architectural approach necessary for building secure, robust
distributed systems that scale and perform. It is excellent news that
2AB has adopted the mature and well respected CORBA product previously
known as DAIS, and is enhancing it as the foundation of a
standards-based security infrastructure," commented Tom Welsh, a
software analyst and consultant who follows OMG technologies.
“We are delivering on the promises we made to our customers to
continuously improve our CORBA® products while laying the
cornerstone of our security infrastructure strategy – this release of
orb2 provides the essential features necessary for 2AB to provide
secure, reliable, scalable, trusted infrastructure for distributed
solutions,” stated Mitchel Sanders, 2AB Chief Technology Officer. Our
goal is to provide tools that make it easy to develop and administer
secure business solutions; with orb2, orbLock and iLock we now have all
the pieces of the puzzle.”
orb2 is also available for C, C++ and Eiffel, allowing business
functionality within existing applications, and written in other
programming languages, to be leveraged in systems integrations and
e-business web environments. The diversity of platform support offered
by orb2 is unparalleled including multiple versions of Windows, UNIX,
OpenVMS and VOS with OS/390 and z/OS support planned for 2002.
About 2AB: 2AB is a provider of Trusted Solutions for Distributed
BusinessSM. Providing standards-based infrastructure to integrate and
protect business and personal information is the goal of their product
suite. 2AB’s integration platform for trusted solutions enable
customers to meet the requirements of federal privacy and
confidentiality legislation by securing existing software, thus
protecting and leveraging previous investments. 2AB professional
services focus on providing application security consulting, model
driven architecture and component software solutions utilizing
distributed technologies such as XML, SOAP, J2EE and CORBA on diverse
operating platforms such as WindowsNT/2000, UNIX, VOS, OpenVMS and
OS-z/390. Capabilities include a diversity of languages, including
Java, C, C++ and COBOL. Founded in 1997, 2AB is privately held and
headquartered in Shelby County, Alabama. For more information, please
see http://www.2ab.com.
Note to Editors: 2AB, orbLock, iLock and orb2 are
trademarks of 2AB, Inc. CORBA is a registered trademark of the Object
Management Group. JAVA is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. All other
trademarks are the property of their holders.
