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SOA Security Manager Architecture and Components

SOA Security Manager is based on the CA SiteMinder technology, using SOA Agents and an XML-enabled Policy Server to protect web service resources hosted on web and application servers.

The following illustration shows a simple SOA Security Manager environment in which a SOA Agent is deployed into a web or application server that is hosting web services.

Basic Overview of SOA Security Manager

More complex architectures can also be configured to support multiple web service implementations where SOA Agents are optionally deployed on web service endpoints to provide an additional layer of security.