Infravio and Layer 7 Technologies announced a partnership and the completion of SOA governance integration between Infravio X-Registry Platform, the company's award-winning Service-Oriented Architecture governance solution, and Layer 7’s SecureSpan, a set of products designed to govern and accelerate Web service integrations spanning security and identity domains without expensive and inflexible programming.

This level of integration provides powerful interaction between policies and contracts, which are maintained in Infravio X-Registry Platform and SOA security enforced by the Layer 7 SecureSpan Gateway.

“Our customers have been asking us for advice on how to grow their security architecture into a full framework for SOA governance,” said Dimitri Sirota, vice president of marketing and alliances for Layer 7. “Infravio’s X-Registry provides our customers with comprehensive governance capabilities around work-flow and lifecycle management for policies enforced by our SecureSpan Gateway.”

Available today, the integration between Layer 7 and Infravio delivers the following SOA governance advantages:

Best-of-breed capabilities in both SOA Governance Registry Repository and in security policy enforcement. *Lifecycle management of security policy metadata. *Bi-directional integration of Registry Repository and runtime environments.

“Registry Repository and runtime enforcement points are two absolutely essential elements of an SOA,” said Miko Matsumura, vice president of technology standards at Infravio. “Real World SOA requires interoperability between best-of-breed vendors in these categories, and we feel Layer 7 is one of the top products in its category.”

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