Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of intelligent integrated solutions for ensuring the fast, reliable and secure delivery of networked and Web-enabled applications over IP, today announced SecureFlow, a new security management solution designed to enhance enterprise security. As part of Radware's new APSolute application delivery product family, SecureFlow uses granular application intelligence to optimize the performance of best-of-breed content inspection, anti-virus, VPN, IDS and firewall security tools. SecureFlow's unified switched architecture ensures 24/7 security policy enforcement, high availability, fast response time and transparent, cost-effective scaling of the full range of data center security devices. IT managers can boost security execution with a phased approach by deploying SecureFlow to selectively control and optimize the flow of traffic to just one type of security device such as content inspection or anti-virus tools, or by choosing to simplify management and eliminate security bottlenecks by seamlessly integrating multiple security devices into SecureFlow's unified switch.
"Enterprises typically deploy a combination of best-of-breed firewalls, VPNs, IDSs, content inspection and anti-virus solutions to satisfy their rigorous enterprise security needs," stated Dr. Michelle Blank, CMO at Radware. "SecureFlow is the only security management solution designed to provide organizations with a transparent migration path to an architecture that eliminates the security/performance tradeoff and improves ROI by reducing the complexities associated with managing and ensuring high availability, high performance in multi-vendor networked security environments."
SecureFlow leverages the full power of Radware's APSolute OS for application-smart networking, to deliver unrivaled health monitoring, traffic redirection, bandwidth management, intrusion prevention and DoS protection benefits.
Featuring 24x7 security policy enforcement, SecureFlow provides real-time identification and bypassing of any faulty device, automatically redirecting traffic to the next available element. Highly scalable and customizable, SecureFlow allows network managers to deploy new point security devices at any time, without scheduling downtime.
"As enterprises deploy a wider range of security solutions to address a wider range of security threats, the need for a resilient and scalable platform that can handle the complexity of multi-vendor security environments increases," said Sam Curry, CA vice president, eTrust Security Management. "SecureFlow helps ensure the availability, performance and transparent scalability that enables customers to leverage best-of-breed security solutions such as CA's eTrust Secure Content Manager - which provides policy-based protection against viruses, spam and other content-based threats - in a multi-vendor environment without compromising its effectiveness."
Taking into account both inbound and outbound traffic, SecureFlow optimizes existing security resources by dynamically distributing traffic evenly across devices, to eliminate performance degradation and latency. By enabling complete control over bandwidth management allocation and policies that guarantee security performance, SecureFlow aligns business priorities with bandwidth use to ensure that safeguarding critical applications from attack does not come at the cost of network performance.
"For the high end enterprise market there is no security solution that combines all security technologies on one platform. As a result they deploy best-of-breed multi-layered security solutions," said Christian A. Christiansen, Program Vice President, Security Products & Services at IDC. "What is required, however, is a unified solution for top security device management that eliminates the security-performance tradeoff."
SecureFlow At-A-Glance
- High availability of best of breed security tools for comprehensive security activation
- 24X7 security policy enforcement with real time identification and bypassing of traffic from any faulty device to the next available element
- Multi-Gigabit security switching
- Pre-screening of trusted content that differentiates between trusted traffic (.gif, .jpg, .mp3, etc.) that need not be inspected and direct non-trusted traffic that must first be scanned
- Reduced latency through accurate policy enforcement and more granular inspection and processing of traffic
- Proactive attack isolation using unique bandwidth management algorithms to dynamically control bandwidth to applications, users or segments affected by an attack to control damage and prevent attack spread
- Complete DoS and intrusion prevention capabilities combining real-time monitoring, identification and blocking of DoS and SYN attacks with Radware's Security Update Service that delivers continuous filters for over 1,500 attack signatures
- Centralized management of security policies via an intuitive centralized GUI based management application and comprehensive attack logs for profiling attack signatures to ensure ongoing protection
Availability
SecureFlow will be available end of Q4. For more information on SecureFlow please visit http://www.radware.com/content/products/default.asp or call 1-888-234-5763.
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) is the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assuring the full availability, maximum performance and complete security of all business critical networked applications while dramatically cutting operating and scaling costs. Over 3,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide use Radware application-smart switches to drive business productivity and improve profitability by adding critical application intelligence their IP infrastructure, making networks more responsive to specific business processes. Radware's best of breed product family provides the most complete set of application front-end, remote access and security capabilities for intelligent application-specific tuning of global networks to ensure faster, more reliable and secure business transactions. Learn more on how Radware application delivery solutions can make your network application-smart to ensure fast, reliable secure networked applications at www.radware.com.
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 industry, changes in demand for Application Switching 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.