Market Identification
Absence of an effective, scalable authorization framework for application-level access management over the Internet and in distributed applications is a common problem in application development. Privacy legislation related to banking, finance, and health care demand information access barriers and access control policies to be implemented and used across the whole enterprise infrastructure. As a result, applications developed with traditional security frameworks make multiple “islands of security”(Bloomberg) within an enterprise infrastructure.
The practical effect of not being able to use an infrastructure security service to express or realize application specific policies is that each business application must contain its own implementation of an access control facility (often coded as part of the business logic). This poses severe problems for enterprises that need to define access policies that are consistent across applications.
Distributed authorization service is a way to implement access barriers (authorization of users' activities on systems and applications) in the enterprise network or in the Internet.
Preallowed®, a highly-scalable distributed authorization service, implements and enforces security policies across a wide range of application, provides a uniform way for application systems to define, enforce and administer those resource-oriented access control policies for use by all software components.
The purpose of
Preallowed® distributed authorization service is to lower application development, deployment and management costs by delivering unified identity and security management solution, tailored to the customer's needs.
Root Locus differentiators include its ability to work in the Internet environment, supporting a variety of operating systems, application frameworks and platforms, ensuring interoperability with legacy systems and ease of implementation, what makes this technology suitable for the distributed Internet deployment.
Market Segments
The following market segments have been identified for distributed authorization service from
Root Locus, Inc.:
High Priority segments:
- Vertical markets (health care, financial);
- Web Application Developers;
- U.S. Government;
Mass Market segments:
- Internet subscription-based analytical content providers;
- Gateways to aggregated and syndicated content and services;
- Internet Music Distribution & Downloads;
