Radware DefensePro Delivers Intrusion Prevention to Continental Airline's Business Partners

Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR) the leading provider of Intelligent Application Switching (IAS) solutions ensuring the availability, performance and security of networked applications across the enterprise announced that Continental Airlines uses Radware's Intrusion Prevention Switch to protect applications running on the airline's B2B web servers.

Continental offers an array of Web services that provide operational information such as flight schedules, flight status, departure and arrival details, and frequent flyer special services to Continental partners, distributors and other businesses that rely on real-time information. Continental Airlines' B2B presence increasingly relies on web-based and mission critical distributed applications. These are accessed remotely from partner sites and hosting facilities over wide area networks. Radware DefensePro protects these applications from viruses, intrusions, worms, and DoS attacks.

"Radware's Intrusion Prevention solution has been protecting our B2B sites for over a year, with bi-directional, deep packet inspection and accelerated signature matching to block hidden worms, viruses, Trojans and intrusions," said Andrew N. Dana, Senior Manager of Information Technology at Continental Airlines.

Securing the networked applications running Web services requires the ability to perform deep packet inspection of traffic to block attacks in real-time and prevent attacks from entering the network. By deploying Radware's DefensePro in front of Continental's B2B sites, it intercepts malicious signatures and viruses, blocking application attacks at multi-Gigabit speeds. Identifying and mitigating protocol and traffic anomalies in real-time, DefensePro prevents DoS/DDoS and SYN floods, safeguarding against all illicit traffic patterns and hacking.

"Continental's deployment of DefensePro demonstrates an industry wide progression towards solutions that provide end-to-end application delivery and security," said Bob Simpson, VP sales at Radware. "Continental is a long-standing Radware customer, and their implementation of our Intrusion Prevention solution ensures site wide availability and security to their B2B web servers."

Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) is the Global Leader in Intelligent Application Switching, enabling the full availability, maximum performance and complete security of all mission critical networked applications while dramatically cutting operating and scaling costs.

Radware's integrated Application Security , Application Infrastructure and End-to-End Connectivity solutions are deployed by over 2,500 enterprises and carriers worldwide. Radware offers the broadest product line in the industry meeting application needs at every critical point across the network including Web and Application Servers, Firewalls, VPNs, ISP links, Anti-Virus Gateways and Cache.

Continental Airlines is the world's sixth-largest airline with more than 3,000 daily departures throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Continental serves 151 domestic and 120 international destinations -- more than any other airline in the world -- and nearly 400 additional points are served via SkyTeam alliance airlines. With 41,000 employees, the airline has hubs serving New York, Houston, Cleveland and Guam, and carries approximately 51 million passengers per year. In 2004, Continental has earned awards and critical acclaim for both its operation and its corporate culture. FORTUNE ranks Continental one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America, an honor it has earned for six consecutive years, and also ranks Continental as the top airline in its Most Admired Global Companies in 2004. The carrier won major awards at the 2004 OAG Airline of the Year Awards including "Airline of the Year," "Best Airline Based in North America" and "Best Executive/Business Class."

Radware Delivers Unprecedented Intrusion Prevention Capabilities and Denial of Service Protection in Real-World Tests

DefensePro Proven to Offer Comprehensive Application Security and Performance Capabilities at High Throughput Speeds

Helping organizations secure, optimize and ensure performance for mission critical applications, Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR) the leading provider of Intelligent Application Switching solutions, announced that recent independent tests by The Tolly Group confirm that DefensePro offers comprehensive Intrusion Prevention Switch (IPS) capabilities. Results showed that DefensePro not only provides standard IPS capabilities to isolate, block and prevent attacks at 2.5 Gbps throughput, but also offers advanced security intelligence features such as attack isolation, traffic shaping, bi-directional SSL inspection, Denial of Service Protection, Mass Mailing Protection and protection against Evasion Techniques, that ensure application performance and reliability even while the network is under attack.

Realizing that application security involves more than strictly blocking malicious content, Radware enlisted The Tolly Group to conduct a series of real-world tests that examined the DefensePro 3000's ability to thwart attacks and still ensure the availability and performance of mission critical applications. In standard IPS performance tests, Radware solutions were proven to secure mission critical applications in real time across high-speed and high capacity environments. Recognition was noted to Radware on the company's integration of Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service protection in one device as well as the ability to mitigate SSL-based attacks and SMTP mass mailing attacks.

"To guarantee both network security and application performance and reliability, an IPS solution needs to go beyond just blocking or preventing attacks," said Assaf Ronen, VP R&D of Radware. "Advanced security features like bandwidth management and attack isolation should be a requirement in any IPS solution, so that organizations can ensure end-to-end security and performance of their mission critical applications - even while in the throes of an attack. The Tolly Group's tests confirmed that DefensePro's advanced security features can block all manner of attacks while leaving these mission-critical applications unaffected."

The Tolly Group tests underscored the unique capabilities of DefensePro 3000 and concluded that:

DefensePro blocked application attacks at an unmatched speed of 2.5 Gigabits per second by identifying and mitigating protocol and traffic anomalies in real-time.

DefensePro's unique bandwidth management capability was able to isolate attacks by dynamically managing bandwidth to stop propagation across users and resources while ensuring complete continuity and performance of all secure traffic to proactively control impact and limit damage.

DefensePro prevented DoS/DDoS attacks and SYN floods, safeguarding against illicit traffic patterns and hacking. DefensePro also leveraged a wide range of DoS protection capabilities including packet-based attacks, TCP, UDP and ICMP flood protection and DHCP flood protection.

"DefensePro ranks among the strongest providers of IPS solutions we have reviewed before," stated Kevin Tolly, president/CEO of The Tolly Group. "With features like bandwidth management, SSL and evasion attack capabilities and multi-segment protection, Radware provides a solid package of cost effective application security and performance for organizations."

Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) is the Global Leader in Intelligent Application Switching, enabling the full availability, maximum performance and complete security of all mission critical networked applications while dramatically cutting operating and scaling costs.

Radware's integrated Application Security , Application Infrastructure and End-to-End Connectivity solutions are deployed by over 2,500 enterprises and carriers worldwide. Radware offers the broadest product line in the industry meeting application needs at every critical point across the network including Web and Application Servers, Firewalls, VPNs, ISP links, Anti-Virus Gateways and Cache.

The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Boca Raton, FL., offers a full range of services designed to furnish both the vendor and end-user communities with authoritative and unbiased information. Additionally, The Tolly Group is recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services.

Do We Really Need Adware and Spyware Blockers?

There was a law school student with a thesis about money laundering. So ,oftentimes, she would google the term to come up with a ready list of online references. This proved to be useful to her and to the entire process of writing her paper. After several months of doing so, she was confronted with the problem of being directed to a weird page not related to money laundering every time she typed the same keywords.

At first she thought it was just a glitch in the internet system, but the persistent occurrence of such a thing made her think that there is more to it. What this law student was confronted with was a computer bug that she coud not fend off.

The situation above is not an isolated case. There are many people who find themselves caught up in technology problems that are mind boggling but actually can be answered with two words - spyware and adware. The infamous term of spyware was first coined in the year 1995 but it was popularized in the year of 2000. Spyware is a computer software innocently infiltrated in a personal computer to be able to access personal information of the user.

This is done by studying logging keystrokes, web browsing history and even scanning a user?s hard drive. Sounds like something we see only in James Bond movies but apparently we are wrong ,for, anyone can be a victim of spyware. It is safe to use the word victim because no one wants to be monitored of all their online activities. Spyware can understandably be used to spy on criminals because such use is beneficial to society but how about the use of spyware to intercept credit card details and the like. There is simply no excuse for the lax of the use of spyware.

What ordinary people can do to protect themselves is to block spyware and all other software programs similar to it like adware and malware. This can easily be done by availing adware and spyware blocker programs online. The role of these blocking programs include removing or disabling existing spyware programs or avoiding the installation of these malicious software programs.

Spyware, adware and malware are not like viruses or worms that self replicate but they can be just as troublesome as their counterparts.

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