Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances.1
Radware’s DefensePro™ is a real-time Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that maintains business continuity by protecting IP infrastructures against existing and emerging network-based threats that cannot be detected by traditional IPS’ such as: application misuse threats, SSL attacks and VoIP service misuse. DefensePro features full protection against vulnerability-based threats through proactive signature updates, which safeguard against already known attacks including worms, Trojans, Bots, SSL-based attacks and VoIP threats.
“We consider being positioned in the Visionaries quadrant to be a validation of our understanding of and commitment to the network security market,” stated Avi Chesla, Vice-President Security Products, Radware. “We focus on providing the correct blend of innovative detection and protection technologies to best meet and exceed the requirements of our customers.”
DefensePro delivers unique behavioral-based technology that automatically, generates real-time signatures. This prevents non-vulnerability-based threats and zero-minute attacks such as application misuse attacks, server brute force attacks, application and network flooding - without blocking legitimate user traffic and no need for human intervention. The product line is based on a pay-as-you-grow license upgrade approach and ease of management through ‘hands-off’ security features such as no-configuration and self-tuning.
According to the Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances, “The network IPS market subsumed the intrusion detection system (IDS) market several years ago and contains all of the detection features of IDS with two critical areas of improvement: Intrusion prevention moves beyond simple attack signature detection to add vulnerability-based signature and non-signature detection capabilities; and network IPS sensors operate at wire speeds to enable inline automated blocking and attack handling.”
The research report further cites that, “the challenge in combating arbitrary malware is in better handling the “gray list,” or suspicious traffic that is neither known good (white list) nor known bad (black list).”
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About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for more than 6,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute™, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of intelligent front-end, access, and security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart." For more information, please visit 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 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.
1Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances” by Greg Young and John Pescatore, 14 April 2009.