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SPS in an Enterprise

Enterprises that provide access to network resources for employees, customers, and partners face a number of challenges, including:

• Directing requests to appropriate services
• Verifying user identities and establishing entitlements
• Maintaining sessions for authorized users
• Providing centralized access control configuration
• Supporting multiple device types
• Employing flexible and secure architectures

SiteMinder provides solutions to many of these challenges, including authentication and authorization of users, and a complex engine for evaluating user entitlements. SPS further expands the benefits of core Policy Server and Web Agent functionality by providing a reverse proxy solution.

This reverse proxy solution adds the following capabilities:

• Inter-operability with existing SiteMinder Web Agents
• Cookieless single sign-on and sessions storage
• Centralized configuration through proxy rules
• Multiple options for maintaining sessions
• Multiple device support

You can deploy SPS in an enterprise to serve the following functions:

• Act as a centralized access control filter
• Support cookieless session schemes
• Support extranet access control