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Nexaweb and Layer 7 Technologies Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Secure Enterprise Web 2.0 Solutions at the Gartner Web Innovation Summit

Alliance Offers Customers Secure SOA and Web Services for SOBA Applications; Leading SOA Security Provider Enrolls in Nexaweb Web2SOA Program

GARTNER Web Innovation Summit, Las Vegas, NV, September 19, 2007 — Nexaweb^® Technologies, Inc., provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) applications, and Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of XML security and networking solutions for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced a strategic alliance that will help commercial and public sector organizations deploy secure Enterprise Web 2.0 and Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBA).

Enterprise Web 2.0 and SOBA development have gained significant momentum among enterprise and public sector IT organizations as delivery platforms for next-generation “services-based” composite, RIA, “mashup,” and net-centric applications. A major consideration in the development of these applications, however, must be governance including the identity of the application user and their location, the provider of these services, how they are secured, and their level of testing. Additionally, the increased use of technologies that support client-side application processing can present potential security risks, something public sector organizations are beginning to refer to as “mobile code.”

Together, Nexaweb and Layer 7 offer application architects and software developers an interoperable product architecture for governing Enterprise Web 2.0 and SOBA applications. With Nexaweb and Layer 7, architects and developers can assign broad application access and usage policies, as well as “services” availability rules, in correlation with the organizations SOA governance framework based on user identity, physical location, and IP address. Likewise, Nexaweb and Layer 7 provide architects and developers the ability to secure “mobile code” or programmatic communication between clients and servers over public networks.

In recent years, there has been a push among large organizations to centralize the administration of user identities and their associated access privileges to corporate resources,” said Dimitri Sirota, VP of Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. “This push has intensified as organizations look to leverage their SOA initiatives and migrate their mission-critical business applications to the Web. Our partnership with Nexaweb addresses this growing demand with a user-identity and governance-oriented Enterprise Web 2.0 application development and delivery platform.”