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XML firewalls dig deeper than traditional firewalls

An XML firewall has to go beyond inspecting the packet or protocol level to examining the actual content of the transmission, said Ron Schmelzer, a senior analyst and founder of Waltham, Mass.-based ZapThink, a firm specializing in Web services and XML. “This is much more complicated as messages have to be decrypted or uncompressed without adding latency,” he said.

For example, a SOAP message needs to be examined to make sure it’s an authorized request, said Jason Bloomberg, another senior analyst with ZapThink, a firm that specializes in security. Examining the message is even more complicated if part or the entire message is encrypted, he said.

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