Q: How is SBX Enigma™ supplied?
A: SBX Enigma™ is a supplied as a pre-configured appliance. Following installation, the SBX Appliance remains totally under the administrative and operational control of the customer.
Q: Can SBX Enigma™ communicate with the active directory of a host environment?
A: Yes. SBX Enigma™ has facilities that allow managed import of information from the active directory of a host environment using LDAP. Although users, organizational and role information can be imported, in order to maintain discrete authority over internal objects, SBX Enigma™ maintains a user object in its own security model.
Q: Does SBX Enigma™ have backup and recovery mechanisms?
A: Yes. SBX Enigma™ takes snapshots of persistent objects in memory and periodically (based on user specification) writes the objects to disk (time machine). Between snapshots, transaction events are also written out to disk. If the system fails and the server is rebooted, SBX Enigma™ loads up the most recent copy of memory.
Q: Can SBX Enigma™ assist in the management of SOA services?
A: Yes. SBX Enigma™ Metadata functionality facilitates the description of Enterprise standards and architectures, supporting Enterprise data and service access across multiple systems & types and enabling centralized administration of access to Enterprise data.
Q: Can SBX Enigma™ function as a repository for encryption keys?
A: Yes. SBX Enigma™ provides a secure repository for security components such as encryption keys, thereby enabling such components to be separated from associated data environments and protected by SBX Enigma™ access security functionality. Utilizing SBX Enigma, encryption protections are greatly enhanced by the ability to deploy a more fine-grained approach to the use of encryption technologies, targeted to specific user populations on a need-to-know basis.
Q: Can SBX Enigma™ manage more than one unique Enterprise at the same time?
A: Yes. The SBX Enigma™ administrative framework is specifically designed to manage multiple unique Enterprises (organizations). Within this framework, separate organizational structures are established and all organization-specific administrative and operational activities remain independent and under the control of each discrete organization.
Q: Can SBX Enigma™ audit non- SBX Enigma™ activities?
A: Yes. SBX Enigma™ audit functionality is accessible to any independent client application or service for the as-required audit of any event, thereby supporting consolidation/centralization of Enterprise audit activities.
Q: How can multiple SBX Enigma™ servers provide enhanced security?
A: Just as SBX Enigma™ facilitates the ability to manage components of client data structures across multiple locations, multiple instances of SBX Enigma™ can be employed to disperse SBX-protected information across multiple servers and locations, thus creating significant barriers to anyone attempting unauthorized access to the Enterprise data. Creative use of multiple SBX Enigma servers provides security professionals with the ability to design custom solutions to the most daunting security problems.