Network Security

Network security software is absolutely vital to the safety of your business information. It is important that your network security systems are able to adapt to the changing sources of threats, however. Traditional software design can create reasonably good network security software, but the ability to incorporate protection against emerging sources of threats can be limited. Often, a complete overhaul of network security software is necessary to add in new protection for your business dealings. Service oriented architecture (SOA) offers the potential to create much more adaptable network security products. By using units of functionality that interoperate in order to work together as an application, service oriented architecture uses its modular nature to be flexible to changing needs and simple to add functionality. If you would like to learn more about service oriented architecture, please fill in our online registration form. By registering to find out more about how SOA can provide your business with adaptable network security products, you will get access to online guidebooks on the basics of service oriented architecture. You will also be contacted by a representative of Oracle, who will identify opportunities for your business to benefit from better network security using products designed with service oriented architecture.

What is service oriented architecture?

Service oriented architecture builds applications out of larger blocks of functionality than traditional software design. Each of these blocks of functionality, or services as they are known, provides a specific business process. Traditional software design makes a single functional whole out of the most basic units of software design. Service oriented architecture takes many functional processes and uses middleware to define relationships between them. They can then interoperate to create an entirely new application. This allows applications design on SOA principles to potentially be created very quickly, as common functionality can be reused many times in different applications.

How can service oriented architecture allow for adaptable network security?

As service oriented architecture uses modules of functionality in order to operate, adding new functionality to existing network security products can be as simple as finding the right service. Even if you must design a new service to provide the necessary functionality, adding that service to the existing network security products is much easier than adding new functionality through traditional software design methods. All that can be required is to add the right services to provide functionality, then writing definitions in the middleware to take the new services into account. This makes network security products much more adaptable.

Please remember to fill in our online registration form if you wish to learn more about service oriented architecture and how it can help to create more adaptable network security. You will receive access to online guidebooks on the basics of service oriented architecture as a part of registering your interest. You will also be contacted by an Oracle representative who will further your understanding of service oriented architecture principles as well as discuss areas that your business could benefit by using service oriented architecture to improve its network security.