Layer 7 SecureSpan Gateway AMI

The SecureSpan Gateway AMI from Layer 7 Technologies acts as a virtual Policy Enforcement Point (vPEP) for controlling how applications delivered as Web services get accessed and consumed. Using the SecureSpan Gateway AMI, application-level policies are enforced on a service and operation level, allowing organizations to implement fine-grained access control, data security and availability policies without code. This makes Amazon EC2 applications look, feel and operate like extended parts of their secure enterprise.

Key Features

• Using the Layer 7 AMI, application-level policies are enforced on a service and operation level, allowing organizations to implement fine-grained access control, data security and availability policies without code. As a result, organizations can make their Amazon EC2 applications look, feel and operate like extended parts of their secure enterprise.

• Enterprises can control administration directly through SOAP and RMI APIs
• Complete backup and restore solution for both system and user configuration are included

• Granular rate limiting and traffic shaping based on number of requests or service availability.
• Centrally monitor & track EC2-based service performance, health and metrics.
• Monitor and track Amazon EC2 uptime SLAs.
• Programmatically re-route to back-up services based on availability or latency.

Layer 7 Securespan provides a turnkey Amazon AMI virtual appliance that bundles sophisticated runtime governance, agent-less Web services management and industry-leading XML security – all at a low TCO

About Layer 7 Technologies SecureSpan

Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan product suite is a standards-based product line designed to secure and govern XML and Web services interactions spanning departments, business units,partners, and private and public cloud environments. SecureSpan provides best-of-breed XML acceleration, security, management and governance for today’s every changing enterprise. The SecureSpan AMI Gateway ensures secure and visible Cloud based Web services deployments.

Licensing

The SecureSpan AMI Gateway is available for evaluation on a trial basis by following the instructions below. To extend your evaluation trial or to purchase a full-use license, please contact Layer 7 Sales via: http://www.layer7tech.com/main/contact/contact.html

Getting Started With The SecureSpan Gateway AMI

The SecureSpan Gateway AMI appliance provides the power of Layer 7 Technologies’ conventional hardware appliance with the flexibility of a software application in the public cloud offering from Amazon and its EC2 service.

This document is designed to help you get up and running with the AMI appliance as quickly as possible. For detailed information on using the AMI appliance, please refer to the SecureSpan Manager User Manual provided in the archive file, or consult the SecureSpan Manager online help. If you require further assistance, please email support@layer7tech.com

Prerequisites

To run the SecureSpan Manager web administration interface, you need one of the following browsers:

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or higher with JRE 1.6.0_0_13 or higher
• Mozilla® Firefox® 3 or higher with JRE 1.6.0_0_13 or higher

To view the included SecureSpan user manuals, you need:

• Adobe® Reader® 5.0 or higher

Initial AMI Configuration

1. Pre configure a firewall group with ports 22 ,8080, 8443 and 9443 allowed from 0.0.0.0/0
2. You must either create an SSH key/certificate pair on the EC2 console and allow the download of the private key to your workstation, or create a key/certificate pair locally and upload the certificate to the EC2 console
3. Select the SecureSpan Gateway AMI appliance from the Public Images section of Amazon
4. Using a Reserved image is optional and has specific features and capabilities beyond the standard image - Refer to Amazon documentation for details
5. Select the number of instances
6. Select the above created firewall group
7. Assign the above-mentioned SSH public certificate for the image
8. Note that boot time is usually less than 2 minutes, but can be as long as 5 minutes. This is expected behavior in EC2 and in no way impacts the performance of the system when running.
9. Start the image
10. Post boot: Optionally obtain and assign an elastic IP to your image
11. Make note of either the elastic IP or the automatically assigned IP address. Once the image boot process has completed, the Gateway AMI can be configured (see below)

Using the SecureSpan Gateway AMI

• SecureSpan Gateway license key
• SecureSpan Gateway AMI User Manual

To request an evaluation license and an copy of the Gateway AMI User Manual, please visit: http://www.layer7tech.com/main/products/l7ami.html

To contact us with any questions about the SecureSpan Gateway AMI or other Layer 7 products, please visit: http://www.layer7tech.com/main/contact/contact.html