PlaSec Collaboration Platform™


The PlaSec Collaboration Platform comprises of application software that provides a wide range of choices for system integration and automation. All supported data interface standards, protocols, and technologies are utilized through a straight forward, browser based interface. Any single PlaSec Classic Appliance or PlaSec Enterprise Appliance can support up to 32 simultaneous Collaborations with other systems.

Examples of PlaSec's Collaboration Platform support include:

1. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) - this is an application protocol for querying and modifying data using directory services running over TCP/IP. This Collaboration type allows convergence with an IAM system (typically in a directory structure already) through a process that can be designed, tested, and deployed in a highly efficient manner. LDAP Collaboration is typically used for collaboration with IAM systems to automatically provision and de-provision identities and their associated privileges.

2. Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. REST exemplifies how the Web's architecture emerged by characterizing and constraining the macro-interactions of the four components of the Web, namely origin servers, gateways, proxies and clients, without imposing limitations on the individual participants. As such, REST essentially governs the proper behavior of participants. As PlaSec's application uses REST to drive the user interface, outside developers may use the same REST API to perform functions to acknowledge and clear alarms, issue commands to field hardware, perform identity maintenance and retrieve status information. Each REST call is authenticated and authorized in the same manner as the application itself.

3. ArcSight is leading the security industry by developing a standard that can be leveraged by all SIM/SEM vendors, partners, and customers. The release of (CEF) Common Event Format is an open log management standard that improves the interoperability of security-related information from different security and network devices and applications. The CEF connector allows ArcSight ESM to connect to, aggregate, filter, correlate, and analyze events from applications and devices which output their logs in the CEF standard, utilizing the syslog transport protocol.

PlaSec is an ArcSight Certified CEF Compliant Partner.

4. Secure Shell or (SSH) is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. SSH provides a command line interface to the PlaSec application allowing the ability to script commands to control field hardware, alter door functions thru the use policies, activate/deactivate cards, and perform system maintenance. These scripts are typically issued by IT SIMS to alter physical security settings in response to both logical and physical security events and triggers.

5. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a User Datagram (UDP) -based network protocol. It is used mostly in network management systems to monitor network-attached devices for conditions that warrant administrative attention. SNMP is a standard method to generate events to a SIM and is typically used to monitor the status of IP enabled security devices.

6. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. XML's design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format, with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Although XML's design focuses on documents, it is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures, for example in web services. Typically, this Collaboration is used to send fully decorated transactions to outside systems requiring a real time feed of physical security transactions.