OpenEdge Authentication Gateway

Your applications never felt so secure.

Enhance the Security of Your OpenEdge Application

Every organization—from the enterprise to the SMB—faces constant threat from bad actors. Security at the data source is paramount to a successful organizational and application security strategy.

OpenEdge Authentication Gateway ensures trusted identity management by hardening the security of your OpenEdge application environment. It’s offered as both a new feature of our next-generation Progress Application Server for OpenEdge ensuring support of the latest security standards, or as a standalone product.

Key Features

Redirects initial access requests to a secure token service (STS) that confirms user legitimacy
Assigns a standard, strongly encrypted Client Principle token to authenticated clients to act as the data record that protects against strong cryptography manipulation
Client Principle maintains a chain of trust between the token and OpenEdge application
Makes authorization decisions for trusted users to ensure proper data access
Integrates with popular identity-related services such as LDAP and Active Directory

Key Benefits

Enhances the security of your OpenEdge application environment
Leverages Progress Application Server for OpenEdge as the underlying technology to ensure support of the latest security standards
Redirects all access requests to a secure token service (STS) that confirms user legitimacy and protects from malicious data manipulation
Prevents rogue clients from going around the authentication and accessing the database or other application components directly
Supports compliance regulation requirements to minimize business risk

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OpenEdge: Protecting Applications in a Challenging Environment

This whitepaper examines the services and tools available to you to ensure that the security of your OpenEdge application is a fundamental factor of your overall security plan.

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