SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings and the leading African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, today announced the latter has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders' quadrant in the 'Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances Magic Quadrant' report.
According to Gartner: “Leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort in all execution and vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry. To remain leaders, vendors must demonstrate a track record of delivering successfully in enterprise IPS deployments and in winning competitive assessments. Leaders produce products that provide high signature quality and low latency, are innovating with or ahead of customer challenges (such as using endpoint intelligence to make more-efficient detections) and have a range of models. Leaders continually win selections and are consistently visible on enterprise shortlists. However, a leading vendor is not a default choice for every buyer, and clients should not assume that they must buy only from vendors in the Leaders' quadrant.”
“We're seeing a growing number of customers that were previously hesitant to implement in-line IPS, now recognising the requirement for automated in-line security to deal with the evolving threat landscape,” commented Alan Kessler, president of TippingPoint. “We are honoured to have Gartner recognise us in the Leaders' quadrant, and view this as a validation of our fundamental philosophy around in-line deployment and security accuracy as the essential criteria for our vision toward extending IPS into a broader network security services platform.”
TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems protect against internal and external cyber attacks (eg, worms, viruses, Trojans, DDoS, spyware, P2P, Web application vulnerabilities, SCADA) that may threaten critical infrastructures. All TippingPoint IPS's ship with 'Recommended Settings', which provide pre-configured policies that automatically and accurately block attacks without any tuning, significantly reducing the amount of time and resources required to protect and maintain a healthy network.
Gartner states: “When enterprises compare products, signature quality remains the most weighted and competitive factor on shortlists. Most vendors employ some form of external vulnerability research as an input to signature creation. Gartner sees a widening gap in signature quality among vendors. For the leading IPS vendors, the staff and investments they have assigned to signature research are generally greater than the competition. There are no shortcuts to signature quality, and we believe vulnerability and malware research will continue to shape the market into tiers.”
TippingPoint's Digital Vaccine Laboratories (DVLabs) security research team is the benchmark of vulnerability and security research in the industry. Providing the security intelligence behind TippingPoint's products, the DVLabs team consists of world-renowned security researchers that apply their cutting-edge engineering and analysis talents in their daily operations.
In 2005, TippingPoint founded the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a program that rewards researchers for responsibly reporting discovered vulnerabilities. This program has grown to almost 1 000 contributors and has catapulted TippingPoint to the forefront of vulnerability research and disclosure. In a study commissioned by TippingPoint, Infonetics reported that since the ZDI launch, TippingPoint has discovered more than six times the software vulnerabilities than the nearest IPS competitor. This study also found that in 2008, TippingPoint discovered three times more vulnerabilities than the nearest IPS competitor. With the introduction of ThreatLinQ, TippingPoint's security intelligence portal, the DVLabs team provides TippingPoint customers with real-time threat and IPS filter data to designate security policy changes, as needed across their TippingPoint IPS deployments.
Kessler added: “The expertise and depth of our DVLabs research team is unparalleled in the industry. The standards they've established for vulnerability disclosure, security research and filter development provide our customers with the fastest and most comprehensive security coverage available and an increasing portfolio of additional IPS services.”
For further information, please contact Oliver N"othen at tel. +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail olivern@securedata.co.za.
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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.
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