WhereGroup

The growing number of map and feature services throw up questions of IT security and privacy. This is also and especially true for architectures with OGC standardized interfaces that are available through public networks (the "Web").

Geodata first has to be integrated into general IT security to be able to meet specifically spatial requirements. IT security follows three paradigms:

These goals can be achived be choosing the appropriate set of security measures. These range from authentication, authorisation and encrypted transmission protocols, to monitoring, accounting, replication, scalability and failover safety.

The WhereGroup combines standard technology with best-practice experience to secure your geodata SOA and IT infrastructure, providing for high availablility and correctness of the data. Security modules combined with spatially extended user management control access to standardized OGC services.

Public Key Infrastructures

If your organization already operates a public key infrastructure we integrate the spatial components seamlessly with your operational environment. This involves the operation of a comprehensive security proxy architecture that shields the standards based geospatial services from direct access and applies your policies.