HP strengthens security across physical, virtual environments

SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, is the leading African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, which is now part of HP's networking unit, following its acquisition of 3Com.

Today, the latter has announced new high-performance security solutions designed to prevent network breaches in a converged infrastructure by delivering comprehensive data protection across both physical and virtual environments.

These new solutions include:

* The HP TippingPoint Secure Virtualisation Framework (SVF), a suite of products designed to help prevent network threats from impacting virtualised environments. The TippingPoint Virtual Controller (vController), the first product introduced under the SVF, extends TippingPoint security protection from physical to virtual networks by routing it through an HP TippingPoint N-Platform Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) appliance. The vController prevents security attacks by inspecting all VM traffic as it moves through the network, either between VMs or from VMs to traditional servers.

* The HP TippingPoint Reputation Digital Vaccine service (Rep DV), which ensures that customer-deployed IPS solutions have the most current and accurate list of malicious or suspicious Web sites and blocks traffic to or from these sites automatically. The list of sites is updated every two hours and powered by HP's DVLabs, the industry-leading security research and development organisation that, through its community of researchers, partners and customers, has been credited by Frost & Sullivan with discovering more security vulnerabilities than any other lab in the industry.

* The two new HP TippingPoint S-series solutions, the S1200N IPS A7500 Module and the S1500 SSL Appliance, which further extend network security from local area networks to the core of the data centre for both physical and virtual domains.

"These enhancements are the first of many that the HP Networking unit will bring to the market following its takeover of 3Com, which in turn owned TippingPoint Technologies; and the integration of their technologies into the HP product line," commented Oliver Nöthen, Product Manager at SecureData for HP's TippingPoint solutions. "TippingPoint was always renowned for its IPS capabilities and thus the new tie-up with HP will significantly help to increase the impact of this 'company' and its offerings in the local market.

"The two new S-Series solutions are particularly important as the first delivers TippingPoint's IPS security inspection in a blade and the latter a dedicated solution for decrypting and re-encrypting Secure Sockets Layer Web site traffic," concluded Nöthen.

For further information, please contact Oliver Nöthen at tel +27 11 790 2500; e-mail olivern@securedata.co.za.

TippingPoint TippingPoint, now part of HP's Networking unit, is the leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth Application Protection, Infrastructure Protection, and Performance Protection for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. Its innovative approach offers customers unmatched network-based security with unrivalled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability. SecureData SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services. SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical. For more information, visit SecureData at http://www.securedata.co.za

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