Security
has grown in importance for web and client/server applications
at the quickening pace of the efforts to side step these security
efforts. It is
a frantic game of cat and mouse as new methods for penetrating
security measures are found, new security measures are implemented
to close the holes.
Sending sensitive information over the Internet (or
any open network) must be encrypted and the decryption platforms
must be secure hence the VPN (Virtual Private Network).
VPNs are point to point and require special software
to be installed, running, and maintained on each platform
serving as end points in the VPN. This creates a problem for operations
like credit card handling in a client/server environment where
the number of clients may be 20 or more.
The client application is requesting a credit card
service as a method supporting the Invoice operation. Yet the VPN is between a server at the
client company and a server at the credit card processor.
W2D_Server was designed and constructed to serve as
the operation resident on the VPN end point, which receives
a credit card operation request from an internal client workstation,
provide its source/destination identity, and pass it through
the VPN. By deploying
the W2D_Server applet, the client companies can leverage their
Internet investment for processing credit card transactions
in a secure environment without undue monthly or per transaction
expenses. This
applet has a very high return on investment for client companies.
Additionally, it can be readily modified to accommodate
virtually any end process credit card transaction service
provider. It
has been field tested with both Axent Mobile Raptor and Microsoft
Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).
The application
is written entirely in C++ with minimal resource use. It runs like an appliance as a front end
to single point VPN processes.
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