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CA Directory |
CA Directory is a "backbone" global directory that helps organizations improve customer services. It delivers the highest levels of availability, reliability, scalability and performance so your customers have access to information when they need it. CA Directory is an exceptionally fast solution that can scale to 100s of millions of users and hundreds of servers spanning continents. CA Directory follows open standards and is 100% LDAP v3 certified, Common Criteria certified, and continues to set the benchmark for supporting on-line services. It exceeded 1 Billion searches per hour in 2007. CA Directory r12 is IPV6 compliant, FIPS 140-2 capable, supports ACP 133, and includes a GUI and wizards that simplify setting up a large distributed directory. CA Directory provides intelligent fail over & fail back so a service never goes down. It provides automated load balancing, query streaming and concurrent replication. The new Views feature provides virtualization to simplify application development and maintenance. |
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Directory Server |
The Critical Path Directory Server is a highly scalable directory that enables high-speed access to user profiles and other data required by mission-critical systems and applications. Proven and trusted by leading organizations, and deployed in some of the most demanding IT infrastructures, this state-of-the-art directory handles large quantities of data, provides lightning-fast response times and offers the industry's highest levels of scalability and performance. The Critical Path Directory Server is compatible with a broad range of applications and systems. Supported standards include: X.500, LDAPv3, DSML, HTTP and SNMP. | |
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Meta-Directory Server |
The Critical Path Meta-Directory Server revolutionizes information management by enabling disparate applications, databases and directories to automatically share data through a series of powerful rule-based join processes. With the Critical Path Meta-Directory Server, organizations can consolidate identity information from distributed network resources, ensuring that a comprehensive view of profile information is always available. |
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Directory Bastion |
Bastion is a high assurance boundary protection guard that enables replication between X.500 Directory Servers in separate security domains, whilst maintaining assured network separation evaluated to Common Criteria EAL4. Directory Bastion ensures that the only protocol to pass between the security domains is X.525 DISP, and that only the configured permitted attributes are replicated. | |
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DeepSecure |
DeepSecure is a high assurance boundary protection guard for X.400 and SMTP providing email content policy enforcement, including support for S/MIME signature and encryption. DeepSecure uses X.500 directories to obtain Certificates and Revocation Lists as required. DeepSecure provides central message policy management for distributed DeepSecure guards using X.500: the DeepSecure ClearPoint management utility is a specialised X.500 DUA for managing DeepSecure message policy. DeepSecure also provides distributed management of security label policies using X.841 SPIFs stored in X.500 directories: the DeepSecure X.841 SPIF Editor is a specialised X.500 DUA for managing X.841 SPIFs. | |
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FlashPoint Server |
FlashPoint Server is a Military Messaging X.400 MTA and Message Store which accesses an X.500 directory server as necessary to obtain:
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View 500 |
The View500 Directory Server provides organizations with a fast, scalable and flexible directory system. Complete support for hierarchical data representation makes View500 the preferred solution in Government and Defence. Full support of moves and renames of non leaf entries, without any performance degradation, allows View500 to continually represent accurate hierarchies, even in volatile environments. View500 is a standards based solution, offering support for X.500, LDAP and XED – the new XML Enabled Directory specification. Key Product Features include:
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M-Vault X.500 |
M-Vault X.500 is a high performance directory server, which can operate as a full X.500 DSA (Directory System Agent) as well as providing LDAP access. It supports the X.500 DAP (Directory Access Protocol), DSP (Directory System Protocol) and DISP (Directory Information Shadowing Protocol). M-Vault can be used as a standalone X.500 service, or to provide a configuration database for Isode's X.400 products.
M-Vault X.500 has full X.500 (1993) functionality incorporating replication, access control, strong authentication and other security features. Integrated LDAP support supports use as an X.500 directory server, an LDAP directory server, or both simultaneously. This flexibility allows an organization to use both LDAP and X.500 DAP clients. The M-Vault X.500 uses X.500 replication, access control and administration facilities to build a highly functional, genuinely open and secure backbone. Servers that support LDAP but not X.500 can also be integrated into the network infrastructure. |
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Directory |
Nexor Directory provides a central source of information for organisations in which sending and receiving messages is critical, the directory is integral to the infrastructure and a directory failure would cause a full system failure. Conforming to LDAP and X.500 directory standards, Nexor Directory provides the high performance needed to maintain service. Key features:
Nexor Directory can establish DSP, DISP and DAP connections using strongly authenticated credentials.. | |
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Directory Administrator |
The Nexor Directory Administrator is an administrative directory user agent (ADUA) based on Windows Explorer, which provides a familiar interface that enables connections to both X.500 and LDAP Directories using either DAP (Directory Access Protocol) or LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). It allows directory information to be browsed and modified using a similar method as on a local file system. Nexor Directory Administrator can establish DAP connections using strongly authenticated credentials. | |
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LDAP/X.500 Gateway |
Nexor X.500/LDAP Gateway provides interoperation of LDAP and X.500 directories. The lack of standards for server-to-server communication can leave data repositories using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) isolated, requiring each workstation to be configured to recognise all data sources. Nexor X.500/LDAP Gateway bridges the gap between X.500 directories, LDAP directories and LDAP applications. Key features:
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Directory Software Development Kit |
Nexor Software Development Kits (SDKs) provide a series of standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that enable developers to access X.500 directory, X.400 messaging and security services from new or existing applications. They enable development and integration with Nexor Directory, Nexor Mailer and Nexor’s Policy Enforcement technology. The latest, Nexor Policy Enforcement SDK, provides a consistent programming interface into Nexor’s military messaging offering for security, labelling, access control and role handling. Nexor SDKs provide an open method, conforming to international standards, to ensure that software built today can be built on in future. They come with full documentation, training and developer support programmes. |
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DirX Directory |
DirX Directory provides a standards-compliant, high-performance, highly available, highly reliable and secure LDAP and X.500 directory server with very high linear scalability. DirX Directory can act as the identity store for employees, customers, trading partners, subscribers, and other e-business entities. It can also serve as a provisioning, access management and metadirectory store, to provide a single point of access to the information within disparate and heterogeneous directories available in an enterprise or Extranet network for user management and provisioning. DirX Directory provides an X.500 DSA (Directory System Agent) and an LDAP server. |