- Premier Analyst Firm Recognizes Forum Systems as the Only
API Management Vendor "with a Primary Focus on Security"
- Lauds Company as Top Vendor in Product and Innovation
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BOSTON, Aug. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Forum Systems
Inc. announced today that leading European analyst firm
KuppingerCole has named the company an Overall Leader in its July
market analysis of API Security Management solutions.
Recognized as the only vendor in the API Management market "with
a primary focus on security," Forum Systems secured the top spot in
both the Product Leadership and Innovation Leadership categories.
This latest KuppingerCole report closely follows its Executive View
titled, "Forum Sentry API Gateway," which recommends Forum Systems
for "evaluation by any organization looking for the highest grade
of security and reliability for their API Management
infrastructure."
In his "Leadership Compass: API Security Management,"
KuppingerCole Senior Analyst Alexei
Balaganski cites "the API Economy as one of the most
important current IT trends" and that "exposing and consuming APIs,
which enables organizations to create new business models and
connect with partners and customers, has tipped the industry
towards adopting lightweight RESTful APIs." He cautions, however,
that "many organizations tend to underestimate the potential
security challenges of opening up their APIs without a security
strategy infrastructure in place."
In examining the API Management solutions market, Balaganski
places a strong emphasis on "API security and threat protection
features" and notes that "exposing enterprise services as APIs is
impossible without addressing various security challenges including
support for various identity types, strong end-to-end communication
security and threat protection." To help organizations establish
the most effective security strategy, he evaluated "existing
integrated API Management solutions with an emphasis on security
features" and considered "solutions that have been designed with
security in mind from the very beginning to be superior to those
products where security features have been added as an
afterthought."
Architected for deployment at the network edge, Forum Sentry is
the industry's only FIPS 140-2 and NIAP NDPP-certified API Gateway
for enabling secure connectivity between users, applications and
the cloud. In addition, Forum Systems holds the industry's only
patent for cryptographic acceleration of security processing.
Praising Forum Sentry as the only product "built upon the
'security by design' principle" and citing Forum Systems as the
"only vendor consistently implementing the 'security-first'
approach in their product" Balaganski selected Forum Systems as an
Overall Leader in API Security Management. Notably, he positioned
the company in the top spot in both the Product Leadership and
Innovation Leadership categories.
Deeming Forum Sentry "a hardened locked-down appliance,"
Balaganski celebrates Forum Systems' flagship product for being
"unique in its approach towards security by not allowing any
third-party extensions or libraries, which ensures resilience
against known and not yet discovered vulnerabilities." Underscoring
Forum Systems' unprecedented focus on delivering a best-in-class
API Gateway, he asserts that by "concentrating on a single
technology solution, the company is able to deliver a highly
integrated cutting edge product backed up by an excellent support
service."
"While 'security-first' is our founding principle and design
approach, it's also our business philosophy. When we engage with
global enterprise organizations and the world's most recognizable
government agencies, we help them establish the most effective
security infrastructure in order to run their businesses – because
without security, there is no business," said Mamoon Yunus, CEO of Forum Systems.
"KuppingerCole rightly states that 'innovation is what customers
require' in order 'to provide new functionality to meet their
evolving requirements.' With innovation as one of our hallmarks, we
will continue architecting the most advanced API and cloud
gateways, so that organizations can successfully navigate SDN, IoT
and other emerging technologies while ensuring business
success."
Forum Systems facilitates secure business integration for global
enterprise customers in commercial, government and military
sectors. Processing and securing more than 10 billion transactions
per day worldwide, the company's flagship Forum Sentry protects and
accelerates data exchange and API service access across networks
and business boundaries, significantly reducing the cost and
complexity of centralizing security, identity and governance.
In profiling Forum Systems, Balaganski cited several key
strengths of Forum Sentry, including:
- Unified solution for API and service security, access
management and threat protection
- "Security by design" architecture for maximum reliability
- Supports a broad range of identity and access control
standards, tokens, and credentials
About KuppingerCole
KuppingerCole, founded in 2004, is
a leading Europe-based analyst
company for identity focused information security, both in
classical and in cloud environments. KuppingerCole stands for
expertise, thought leadership, and a vendor-neutral view on these
information security market segments, covering all relevant aspects
like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Governance, Risk
Management and Compliance (GRC), IT Risk Management, Authentication
and Authorization, Single Sign-On, Federation, User Centric
Identity Management, eID cards, Cloud Security and Management, and
Virtualization. For further information, please visit
www.kuppingercole.com.
About Forum Systems
Forum Systems, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Crosscheck Networks, Inc., is the innovation leader
in API and cloud gateway technology. The industry's most
comprehensive solution for centralized security, identity and
governance for SOA, REST and mobile communications, Forum Sentry
enables comprehensive threat mitigation and trust enablement,
providing enterprises and government organizations worldwide with
the foundation for achieving Secure Service Mediation. Processing
more than 10 billion transactions per day worldwide, the NDPP-,
FIPS- and DoD-certified Forum Sentry API Security Gateway delivers
unparalleled protection against HTML-, XML-, SOAP- and REST-based
vulnerabilities. Notably, Forum Systems products provide simplified
integration and task processing with over 100 built-in,
standards-based processing tasks. For more information, please
visit www.forumsys.com.
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