Technologies
          IT Sqaure.com and IT-radar.com safeguard the confidentiality of users'
          information through firewalls, digital certificates, and extensive authentication
          procedures. By incorporating transaction security using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
          technology, they maintain an environment where privacy and confidentiality are
          guaranteed.

          IT Service intermediaries use enabling technologies to provide transaction,
          content, and other software and network capabilities. These technologies are
          marketed by organizations such as TRADEX Technologies, The Sun/Netscape
          Alliance and so on. These intermediaries use information publishing tools,
          business process workflow features, transaction capabilities and payment services.

          Some of the software can be bought off the shelf, while some intermediaries prefer
          to custom build the software. Nowadays much of the focus lies on distributed object
          technology. Distributed  object systems provide a key to building interoperable
          applications that can execute on a range of platforms. An example would be a CORBA-based electronic intermediary software.
           

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