The LockStar solution averts the prohibitive financial and time costs of custom reengineering back end systems, and the associated risks of system downtime and destabilization. And, LockStar protects your investment in native access control mechanisms, leveraging systems such as RACF to preserve granular access control and complete auditability. The LockStar transition feature lets users transparently migrate from password to certificate authentication as organizations stage their PKI rollouts. This feature lets companies confidently build a PKI infrastructure today for a select group of users, and then easily extend the user population as eBusiness needs grow. LockStar establishes an SSL channel for secure data transfer between the browser and the back-end system.
Proprietary data is shielded from the web server.
LockStar does not expose proprietary data to the web server, the most frequent point of attack. Only encrypted data flows through the web server. Digital certificate-based user authentication from the browser to the back end. LockStar technology enables mainframes, databases and large enterprise applications to accept a digital certificate for user authentication at the host. The LockStar transition feature lets users transparently migrate from password to certificate authentication as organizations stage their PKI rollouts.