Radware, which makes integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, hasannounced AppDirector 2.30, the newest addition to its award-winning intelligent Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solution. The first solution to integrate security into the ADC more than 10 years ago, the new AppDirector 2.30 has been designed from the ground-up to provide an end-to-end security and compliance solution part of the ADC, to successfully mitigate application vulnerability exploitation and emerging network attacks. By delivering a holistic approach to security and compliance, AppDirector 2.30 not only protects the network and applications, but it also addresses all data center security aspects and needs including reporting, ticketing, forensics and compliance.
Network and application security attacks - such as Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed DoS (DDoS), intrusion attacks and application vulnerability exploitation - may compromise the availability of mission-critical applications and cause performance degradation - resulting in poor Quality of Experience (QoE) and affecting the overall business reputation. Therefore, it is imperative to be able to effectively protect against such security attacks and threats in the next-generation data center. By combining a unique set of security protection technologies in the ADC, AppDirector 2.30 is the leading security-integrated ADC on the market, enabling to completely protect network and applications while saving on capital expenditures, improving performance and simplifying operations through centralized management - for both the application delivery and the security layers.
In addition, Radware also offers APSolute Vision, a unified management tool which not only provides system-wide, multiple application delivery device management, but also adds a new level of security and compliance management based on a best-of-breed data center security solution, an industry first in the ADC market. APSolute Vision provides centralized attack management, real-time monitoring, advanced forensics and historical reporting across the different modules, multiple AppDirector devices and locations - enabling advanced correlation for new attacks. Providing clear visibility into the actions through the integrated modules, APSolute Vision incorporates a powerful Security Event Management Engine that enables security managers to detect, prioritize and respond to emerging network attacks that threaten the business applications infrastructure. It offers per user customization of real-time dashboards and historical reports; an advanced forensics engine providing attack evidence and attack trends analysis; compliance achievement with pre-defined areport sets for PCI, HIPAA, SOX etc. and complete event lifecycle management through an advanced incident handling system including ticketing.
"The unique combination of AppDirector's multi-layered security offering, APSolute Vision's security reporting and compliance, in addition to other advanced security capabilities - such as Web Application Firewall (WAF), XML firewalling and Web Services protection - provides our customers with a market first," stated Nir Ilani, Product Marketing Director, Application Delivery, Radware. "Our customers can ensure cost-effective security operations and compliance in the data center to guarantee undisrupted business operation - even when under attack - while benefitting from the simplicity of operations and reduced CAPEX," he continued.