SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, today announced that GuardedNet's neuSECURE security management and incident response platform has been integrated with TippingPoint's Unity One Intrusion Prevention System to provide customers with a unified solution to proactively automate enterprise security functions.
TippingPoint's UnityOne Intrusion Prevention System and GuardedNet's neuSECURE security information management platform combined will allow joint customers the ability to proactively block network attacks while detecting malicious traffic occurring on non-protected network segments.
TippingPoint protects critical network segments from major threats, while notifications of these blocked attacks are sent to neuSECURE for correlation with other sources of information to help identify malicious traffic occurring on non-protected segments. Additionally, neuSECURE produces detailed reports on this data from its central repository for management, audit and regulatory bodies.
"Our Intrusion Prevention System provides detailed information on threats, but also proactively blocks them. It is an active element of the network," commented TippingPoint's Chief Technology Officer Marc Willebeek-LeMair. "By blocking attacks, it cuts down on the alerts from other security products."
"The joint solution from GuardedNet and TippingPoint offers companies the ability to combine intrusion prevention capabilities into an operational security management process that focuses on the business impact of security," added Rich Telljohann, vice-president of Marketing and Business Development for GuardedNet. "As the security marketplace moves from intrusion detection to proactive intrusion prevention, this partnership provides a solution that can support proactive policy enforcement and compliance, as well as incident management."
TippingPoint's UnityOne Intrusion Prevention System provides application protection, performance protection and infrastructure protection at gigabit speeds through total packet inspection. Application protection capabilities provide fast, accurate, reliable protection from internal and external cyber attacks. Through its infrastructure protection capabilities, UnityOne protects VOIP infrastructure, routers, switches, DNS and other critical infrastructure from targeted attacks and traffic anomalies. UnityOne performance protection capabilities enable customers to throttle non-mission-critical applications that hijack valuable bandwidth and IT resources, thereby aligning network resources and business-critical application performance.
GuardedNet's neuSECURE is a heterogeneous security management and incident response software solution designed to provide a centralised, comprehensive, coherent view of enterprise security. It correlates event data files from systems such as firewalls, intrusion prevention and detection systems, computer hosts, applications and routers and automatically analyses this data to uncover legitimate threats to the enterprise. neuSECURE allows security analysts to prioritise their investigations and focus on the mission-critical task of responding to threats as they are occurring, rather than after the damage is done. In one managed security provider environment, neuSECURE was able to cut average incident-handling times from greater than 30 minutes to less than three. With neuSECURE a security team can manage security threats from early detection to final resolution without ever leaving the intuitive, Web-based console.
For further information, please contact Andrew Ochse at telephone +27 11 257 8600; fax +27 11 257 8699; e-mail andrewo@securedata.co.za
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TippingPoint Technologies, based in Austin, Texas, USA, is the leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth protection and attach eradication for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. Their innovative approach offers customers an effective network-based security solution with unrivalled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability.
GuardedNet
GuardedNet delivers advanced enterprise security management and incident response solutions designed to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and visibility of security operations and information risk management. Its software platform, neuSECURE, enables centralised security monitoring and incident management in heterogeneous security environments, improving corporate security and reducing operational costs. GuardedNet has received numerous accolades and was recently named a finalist in Network Computing Magazine's 2004 Well Connected Awards for outstanding performance in Security Information Management.
GuardedNet's neuSECURE also received Information Security Magazine's Hot Pick of the Month for a security product in February 2004. In 2003, GuardedNet was the recipient of Information Security Magazine's Horizon Award for Customer Satisfaction. GuardedNet is a private company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion prevention software and network asset management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs.
As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for and Trend Micro, SecureData is the African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies and the southern African distributor for US-based BorderWare, US-based RSA Security and UK-based Centennial. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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