Product Report: Axiomatics Policy Management Suite - 70293

This product report covers the following Axiomatics Policy Management Suite consisting of of the following products:

Axiomatics Policy Server
Axiomatics Policy Auditor
Axiomatics Reverse Query

The Axiomatics Policy Management suite falls into the category of Dynamic Authorization Management Systems, which are sometimes also called Entitlement Management or Policy Management solutions . Products of that category use the XML-based XACML standard – eXtensible Access Control Markup Language – to define authorization policies and make access control decisions. Axiomatics is a leading developer of the XACML standard and makes full use of it. Axiomatics Agents are available for the Java and .NET platform as well as many security systems like several XML Gateways that work together with the Policy Server in order to enforce the policies.

Axiomatics has distinguished itself from other vendors in this space by focusing on a solution that consistently implements and complies with the XACML standard and is as of to-date the only vendor in the market fully supporting the XACML 2.0 and XACML 3.0 standards including all standard profiles. Axiomatics internally uses XACML for policy storage and authoring as well as the XACML query/response language for Policy Enforcement Points. This is different from the approach of some other vendors who have implemented the XACML query/response protocol on top of existing access control engines which then also may use a different model to author policies. The approach chosen by Axiomatics therefore comes with the promise of higher flexibility – but at the expense of complexity.