CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- DataPower Technology, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent XML-aware network infrastructure, today followed up on the success of its DataPower XA35 XML Accelerator™ and announced the immediate availability of the DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway™, a first-of-its-kind network device purpose-built to secure XML-based applications at wirespeed across the entire enterprise with ease. The XS40 is the only device to combine wirespeed performance, comprehensive security and future-proof agility to allow enterprises to overcome the largest barrier to adopting XML Web Services both internally and externally. While there is tremendous business value in XML Web services, Gartner reports that security continues to be the largest obstacle to getting them into production. Enterprises require a new pragmatic approach to XML Web services security, one that simultaneously recognizes the emergence of new standards, the value of existing infrastructure investments, the organizational challenges and the performance impact of XML security. Because corporations are struggling to deal with resource constraints, diverging business goals and the requirement to assimilate new technology, the XS40 is an easy-to-install and maintain network appliance that satisfies both application and network groups and supports current and pending security standards out-of-the-box. Some of the recently announced XML Web Services security specifications include WS-Security, SAML, and XML Encryption. All XML Web services security functions, such as schema validation, XML/SOAP encryption, XML Signature, and others, require extensive XML processing. This has been forcing businesses to choose between performance and protection, because fully securing XML requires processing power not available until now. With XG3 – DataPower’s patent-pending, third-generation XML processing technology – the XS40 is the only available solution able to parse, validate schema, decrypt, verify signatures, transform, sign and encrypt XML message flows with the wirespeed performance necessary for real-world applications. "Server-to-server connectivity erodes the traditional enterprise perimeter and brings with it both new threats and new opportunities," says Eugene Kuznetsov, founder, president & CTO of DataPower Technology, Inc., "DataPower’s innovative XS40 product comes both from our original vision of a horizontal XML-aware network infrastructure and from our customers’ need for a practical solution. A single XS40 securely enables multiple applications without changing their code, and easily reconfigures to support future versions of XML security standards, to protect against yet-unknown threats or to enforce new corporate policies. And our announcement today of the first discloseable XS40 customer demonstrates the great success of our approach in real-world deployments."In a separate release:DataPower Technology Inc., the leading provider of intelligent XML-aware network infrastructure, today announced that RouteOne LLC, the joint venture formed by DaimlerChrysler Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, GMAC and Toyota Financial Services, has selected the DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway™ to secure its innovative online credit application management system. (See associated announcement "DataPower Technology Delivers World’s Fastest XML Web Services Security Gateway," January 13, 2003) Using DataPower’s XS40, RouteOne will demonstrate that robust, next-generation XML-based applications can be securely built and efficiently deployed, thereby delivering the promised business benefits of XML Web Services. DaimlerChrysler Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, GMAC and Toyota Financial Services formed RouteOne to provide a Web-based credit application management system for automobile dealers and the auto finance industry at large. RouteOne will provide a common platform for the exchange of credit application and decision information between automobile dealers and their finance sources, increasing efficiencies for both by dramatically streamlining the credit application process. The system will also benefit consumers by giving dealers more auto financing choices and a faster approval process. "RouteOne is designed to process a very high number of credit applications per day. Security and performance were important considerations in our selection of DataPower. This is due to the sensitive nature of the information contained in credit applications and because of the sheer volume," said Joel Gruber, chief information officer of RouteOne. "DataPower’s XS40 delivers the performance required for comprehensive XML security functions, meaning that we will not have to sacrifice performance for protection." DataPower Technology Inc.