Security to the core

Corechange announces Coreport CoreSecure software, which is said to provide secure external portal access to business-critical applications, content and services residing inside the corporate firewall.

The company says CoreSecure builds on Coreport’s single sign-on and role-based access control services to help customers mitigate security risks and reduce complexity and cost when enabling external stakeholders to access corporate information through a portal. It adds that companies can use the software to deploy and manage portals that securely provide sensitive information to customers, partners, suppliers and distributors, making it easier to do business. The same software can also be used to securely connect remote employees and a roaming work force to the enterprise.

Corechange says CoreSecure is based on a reverse proxy architecture and is typically deployed in a demilitarized zone on the corporate network, providing a "defense in-depth" isolation layer. It reportedly manages authentication, encrypts all communications and dynamically manages access on a per-session basis. Load balancing support allows linear scaling by adding servers to the farm. Servers can also be clustered for high availability and fail-over recovery. Customers can leverage existing investments in identity infrastructure such as directories and digital certificates.

CoreSecure is tightly integrated with Coreport. Users, groups, roles, permissions and policies are defined once for the portal and are stored in a single repository. External access rights are simply another configuration attribute.