Radware's Attack Mitigation System Delivers the First Fully Integrated Solution To Fight Cyber Attacks in Real Time
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Radware's Attack Mitigation System Delivers the First Fully Integrated Solution To Fight Cyber Attacks in Real Time
The solution blocks the new breed of sophisticated attacks that target Multiple layers of the IT infrastructure
MAHWAH, New Jersey, September 20, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Today's point security tools for IT infrastructures are not enough to
protect against the new wave of sophisticated cyber attacks. That's why
Radware [http://www.Radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced Radware Attack
Mitigation System (AMS), the industry's first fully integrated IT security
strategy and portfolio that protects the application infrastructure in real
time against network and application downtime, application vulnerability
exploitation, malware spread, information theft, Web service attacks and Web
defacement.
Available today, Radware's AMS provides the most comprehensive solution
to fight multi-vulnerability campaigns - today's sophisticated,
headline-grabbing cyber attacks that probe IT targets for weaknesses and
strike with parallel assaults across the infrastructure. These attacks are
hard to defend against because they are aimed at multiple layers in the IT
architecture, particularly against network infrastructure equipment, servers
and applications. Examples of multi-vulnerability attacks include
high-volume distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as well as "low &
slow" stealthy attacks, network- and application-based attacks, all of which
hit simultaneously at multiple weakness points in the networks while
emulating legitimate user behavior making them harder to identify and block.
"The major advance in new threats has been the level of tailoring and
targeting - these are not noisy, mass attacks that are easily handled by
simple, signature-dependent security approaches. Targeted attacks aim to
achieve a specific impact against specific enterprises, and have three major
goals: Denial of service -- Disrupting business operations; Theft of service
-- Obtaining use of the business product or service without paying for it;
and Information compromise -- Stealing, destroying or modifying
business-critical information," according to John Pescatore, VP
Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, Inc. "Enterprises need to focus on reducing
vulnerabilities and increasing monitoring capabilities to deter or more
quickly react to evolving threats, and not focus on what country the attacks
are coming from.[1]"
Organizations typically respond to these attacks with separate patches
and tools for protection such as anti-DoS, intrusion prevention systems
(IPS), Web application firewalls (WAF), network behavioral analysis (NBA),
reputation engines, and security information and event management (SIEM)
solutions. Radware AMS consolidates these multiple attack detection with
mitigation technologies, such as signature detection and network and
application behavioral analysis (NABA), to handle malicious application
traffic through application-level challenge/response techniques. This gives
security managers the ability to identify bots that imitate real user
application transactions and block them in real time, avoiding the need to
perform rate-based protection that would drop legitimate users along with
the attack traffic.
"Nearly all IT security solutions today are designed and deployed as
point solutions. That's the problem - they miss the big picture," said Avi
Chesla, Chief Technical Officer for Radware. "Thus they cannot make the
required context-based security assessment, leaving the network exposed to
today's multi-vulnerability attack campaigns.
"Most vendors only specialize as players in a primary solution -
providing only WAF, IPS, DoS protection, or network behavioral analysis.
Others will offer 'light' version add-ons to incorporate additional
defenses. The solution we have launched offers best-of-breed technologies
for all of these security modules in a holistic, integrated solution
addressing the full gamut of today's evolving security threat landscape.
Recent cyber attacks prove that businesses need to plan for the worst case,
and that plan mandates the use of Radware's AMS solution," Chesla said.
The ultimate impact of multi-vulnerability attacks on businesses can be
staggering, resulting in fraud, defacement, identity theft, leaking of
sensitive corporate information, and as seen in many cases over the past
year, a complete shutdown of operations. Yet as hackers evolve in
sophistication, so too must IT security managers evolve their thinking.
Radware AMS can lead a transformative shift in the way the industry
approaches IT security from the current, tool-based response to a holistic
approach that integrates tools and strategies into a real-time, proactive,
attack mitigation solution.
Designed for online businesses, large enterprises, carriers, data
centers and managed service providers, Radware's AMS is built on Radware's
award-winning DefensePro(R) network security appliance, AppWall(R) Web
application firewall and APSolute Vision(R) application and network security
management dashboard.
Radware supplements these capabilities by adding the human factor - the
professional security consultants of its Emergency Response Team (ERT) who
are available around the clock. As literal "first responders" to cyber
attacks, Radware's ERT members gained their extensive experience by
successfully dealing with some of the industry's most notable hacking
episodes, providing the knowledge and expertise to mitigate the kind of
attack a business's security team may never have handled.
GLOBAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
In support of the announcement, Radware is launching its new company
blog [http://blog.radware.com ], which features expert insights on not only
security, but also application delivery, mobile data, virtualization,
service provider issues and a host of other IT topics. The company is also
running a global marketing and advertising campaign to educate end users on
how they need to be fully equipped to overcome today's multi-vulnerability
attacks and take an offensive posture. The campaign features a Flash game
and contest designed to provide players with a fun way to learn about
Radware's Attack Mitigation System capabilities while they understand how to
cost-effectively neutralize today's distributed attacks. The game, "Radware
AMS Threat Race", runs until mid-October and offers contestants the
opportunity to win $5,000. For more information and game access, please
visit: http://www.radware.com/ams.
For more information on Radware's AMS, go to:
http://www.radware.com/Solutions/Enterprise/Security/default.aspx .
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
AMS Brochure
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26600 ] : "Attack
Mitigation System -- Protect Online Businesses and Data Centers Against
Emerging Network & Application Threats"
CTO Expert Article
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26598 ] : "Security is
Not Just About Defense" by Avi Chelsa, CTO, Radware
ERT Incidents Report 1H, 2011
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26601 ] : Developed by
Radware Emergency Response Team
AMS & SEIM White Paper
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26602 ] : "No Blind
Spots in Perimeter Security with Security Event Information Management"
Solution Video [http://youtu.be/dVcQj7PPQLk?hd=1 ] : "Fight Cybercrime
with a Fully Integrated Attack Mitigation System"
SlideShare Presentation
[http://www.slideshare.net/Radware/inside-radwares-attack-mitigation-ams ] :
"Beyond Today's Perimeter Defense: Radware's Attack Mitigation System"
About Radware
Radware [http://www.radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a global leader of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions
portfolio delivers full resilience for business-critical applications,
maximum IT efficiency, and complete business agility. Radware's solutions
empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt
to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve
maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please
visit http://www.radware.com.
Radware encourages you to join our community and follow us on LinkedIn
[http://www.linkedin.com/company/165642 ], Radware Blog
[http://blog.radware.com ], Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/radware ], YouTube
[http://www.youtube.com/radwareinc ] and the Radware Connect
[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/radware-connect/id391124100?mt=8 ] app for
iPhone(R).
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are
subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are
not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching or
Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or
Network Security products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders
and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.
Corporate Media Relations:
Michael Lordi
+1-201-785-3206 (office)
+1-201-574-3840 (cell)
mikel@radware.com
1. Gartner, Inc., "Strategies for Dealing With Advanced Targeted
Threats", John Pescatore, August 5, 2011
Source: Radware Ltd
.
The solution blocks the new breed of sophisticated attacks that target Multiple layers of the IT infrastructure
MAHWAH, New Jersey, September 20, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Today's point security tools for IT infrastructures are not enough to
protect against the new wave of sophisticated cyber attacks. That's why
Radware [http://www.Radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced Radware Attack
Mitigation System (AMS), the industry's first fully integrated IT security
strategy and portfolio that protects the application infrastructure in real
time against network and application downtime, application vulnerability
exploitation, malware spread, information theft, Web service attacks and Web
defacement.
Available today, Radware's AMS provides the most comprehensive solution
to fight multi-vulnerability campaigns - today's sophisticated,
headline-grabbing cyber attacks that probe IT targets for weaknesses and
strike with parallel assaults across the infrastructure. These attacks are
hard to defend against because they are aimed at multiple layers in the IT
architecture, particularly against network infrastructure equipment, servers
and applications. Examples of multi-vulnerability attacks include
high-volume distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as well as "low &
slow" stealthy attacks, network- and application-based attacks, all of which
hit simultaneously at multiple weakness points in the networks while
emulating legitimate user behavior making them harder to identify and block.
"The major advance in new threats has been the level of tailoring and
targeting - these are not noisy, mass attacks that are easily handled by
simple, signature-dependent security approaches. Targeted attacks aim to
achieve a specific impact against specific enterprises, and have three major
goals: Denial of service -- Disrupting business operations; Theft of service
-- Obtaining use of the business product or service without paying for it;
and Information compromise -- Stealing, destroying or modifying
business-critical information," according to John Pescatore, VP
Distinguished Analyst, Gartner, Inc. "Enterprises need to focus on reducing
vulnerabilities and increasing monitoring capabilities to deter or more
quickly react to evolving threats, and not focus on what country the attacks
are coming from.[1]"
Organizations typically respond to these attacks with separate patches
and tools for protection such as anti-DoS, intrusion prevention systems
(IPS), Web application firewalls (WAF), network behavioral analysis (NBA),
reputation engines, and security information and event management (SIEM)
solutions. Radware AMS consolidates these multiple attack detection with
mitigation technologies, such as signature detection and network and
application behavioral analysis (NABA), to handle malicious application
traffic through application-level challenge/response techniques. This gives
security managers the ability to identify bots that imitate real user
application transactions and block them in real time, avoiding the need to
perform rate-based protection that would drop legitimate users along with
the attack traffic.
"Nearly all IT security solutions today are designed and deployed as
point solutions. That's the problem - they miss the big picture," said Avi
Chesla, Chief Technical Officer for Radware. "Thus they cannot make the
required context-based security assessment, leaving the network exposed to
today's multi-vulnerability attack campaigns.
"Most vendors only specialize as players in a primary solution -
providing only WAF, IPS, DoS protection, or network behavioral analysis.
Others will offer 'light' version add-ons to incorporate additional
defenses. The solution we have launched offers best-of-breed technologies
for all of these security modules in a holistic, integrated solution
addressing the full gamut of today's evolving security threat landscape.
Recent cyber attacks prove that businesses need to plan for the worst case,
and that plan mandates the use of Radware's AMS solution," Chesla said.
The ultimate impact of multi-vulnerability attacks on businesses can be
staggering, resulting in fraud, defacement, identity theft, leaking of
sensitive corporate information, and as seen in many cases over the past
year, a complete shutdown of operations. Yet as hackers evolve in
sophistication, so too must IT security managers evolve their thinking.
Radware AMS can lead a transformative shift in the way the industry
approaches IT security from the current, tool-based response to a holistic
approach that integrates tools and strategies into a real-time, proactive,
attack mitigation solution.
Designed for online businesses, large enterprises, carriers, data
centers and managed service providers, Radware's AMS is built on Radware's
award-winning DefensePro(R) network security appliance, AppWall(R) Web
application firewall and APSolute Vision(R) application and network security
management dashboard.
Radware supplements these capabilities by adding the human factor - the
professional security consultants of its Emergency Response Team (ERT) who
are available around the clock. As literal "first responders" to cyber
attacks, Radware's ERT members gained their extensive experience by
successfully dealing with some of the industry's most notable hacking
episodes, providing the knowledge and expertise to mitigate the kind of
attack a business's security team may never have handled.
GLOBAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN
In support of the announcement, Radware is launching its new company
blog [http://blog.radware.com ], which features expert insights on not only
security, but also application delivery, mobile data, virtualization,
service provider issues and a host of other IT topics. The company is also
running a global marketing and advertising campaign to educate end users on
how they need to be fully equipped to overcome today's multi-vulnerability
attacks and take an offensive posture. The campaign features a Flash game
and contest designed to provide players with a fun way to learn about
Radware's Attack Mitigation System capabilities while they understand how to
cost-effectively neutralize today's distributed attacks. The game, "Radware
AMS Threat Race", runs until mid-October and offers contestants the
opportunity to win $5,000. For more information and game access, please
visit: http://www.radware.com/ams.
For more information on Radware's AMS, go to:
http://www.radware.com/Solutions/Enterprise/Security/default.aspx .
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
AMS Brochure
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26600 ] : "Attack
Mitigation System -- Protect Online Businesses and Data Centers Against
Emerging Network & Application Threats"
CTO Expert Article
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26598 ] : "Security is
Not Just About Defense" by Avi Chelsa, CTO, Radware
ERT Incidents Report 1H, 2011
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26601 ] : Developed by
Radware Emergency Response Team
AMS & SEIM White Paper
[http://www.radware.com/workarea/showcontent.aspx?ID26602 ] : "No Blind
Spots in Perimeter Security with Security Event Information Management"
Solution Video [http://youtu.be/dVcQj7PPQLk?hd=1 ] : "Fight Cybercrime
with a Fully Integrated Attack Mitigation System"
SlideShare Presentation
[http://www.slideshare.net/Radware/inside-radwares-attack-mitigation-ams ] :
"Beyond Today's Perimeter Defense: Radware's Attack Mitigation System"
About Radware
Radware [http://www.radware.com ] (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a global leader of
application delivery
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/default.aspx ] and
application security
[http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/default.aspx ]
solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions
portfolio delivers full resilience for business-critical applications,
maximum IT efficiency, and complete business agility. Radware's solutions
empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt
to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve
maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please
visit http://www.radware.com.
Radware encourages you to join our community and follow us on LinkedIn
[http://www.linkedin.com/company/165642 ], Radware Blog
[http://blog.radware.com ], Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/radware ], YouTube
[http://www.youtube.com/radwareinc ] and the Radware Connect
[http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/radware-connect/id391124100?mt=8 ] app for
iPhone(R).
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are
subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are
not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching or
Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or
Network Security products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders
and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.
Corporate Media Relations:
Michael Lordi
+1-201-785-3206 (office)
+1-201-574-3840 (cell)
mikel@radware.com
1. Gartner, Inc., "Strategies for Dealing With Advanced Targeted
Threats", John Pescatore, August 5, 2011
Source: Radware Ltd
.