SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, a division of 3Com, today announced that the latter has been positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant in the 2H06 Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) Appliances Magic Quadrant's report.
According to Gartner, 'leaders' demonstrate balanced progress and effort in ability to execute and completeness of vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change the course of the industry.
To be in the leader quadrant, vendors must have demonstrated a track record of delivering successfully in enterprise IPS deployments and winning in competitive assessments. Leaders produce products that provide high signature quality, offer low latency, innovate with or ahead of customer challenges (such as incorporating access control to expand network security), and offer a range of models to address varying customer needs. Leaders consistently win in competitive situations and have been consistently visible on enterprise shortlists.
"This is a very competitive space, but we attribute our position in the leader quadrant to staying on the forefront of attack trends and anticipating evolving customer security needs," comments Neal Hartsell, vice-president of marketing, TippingPoint. "We believe enterprise customers view us as the leader in IPS because we were first to market with innovative features like the ability to quarantine infected endpoints, and first to add threat coverage for voice over IP, phishing, and spyware."
According to Gartner, the network IPS market for standalone appliances was approximately $246 million in 2004 and will increase to more than $700 million by the end of 2006. The network IPS market is composed of in-line devices that perform fullstream assembly of network traffic, and provide protection using several methods including signatures, protocol anomaly detection, and behavioural or heuristics.
Gartner also projects that targeted attacks that use unique malicious executables that do not always look to exploit known vulnerabilities will cause the majority of enterprise damage by 2010.
Hartsell added: "TippingPoint will continue its strong focus on cutting-edge security research and digital vaccine filter development through our world-class security research organisation, DV Labs. DV Labs consists of internal security researchers, filter writers and testers, and a team of over 400 Zero Day Initiative researchers who focus on responsibly discovering and disclosing zero day threats. As threats continue to evolve and more zero day attacks are realised, we are dedicated to providing our customers with the fastest and most comprehensive security coverage."
After launching the first IPS in 2002, TippingPoint now has over 30 awards for its IPS. TippingPoint has launched several industry-leading initiatives such as the voice over IP security alliance, www.voipsa.org, with over 100 members and the Zero Day Initiative, www.zerodayinitiative.com, with over 400 researchers.
For further information, please contact Andrew Ochse at telephone (011) 790 2500; fax (011) 790 2599; e-mail andrewo@securedata.co.za.
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TippingPoint
TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, 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. Our innovative approach offers customers unmatched network-based security with unrivalled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability. TippingPoint is based in Austin, Texas.
3Com
3Com is a leading provider of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes. 3Com offers a broad line of innovative products backed by world-class sales, service and support, which excel at delivering business value for its customers. When customers exercise choice, their choice is 3Com.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier value-added distributor and solution provider of perimeter, network and endpoint information security and risk management solutions. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for AirDefense, Application Security, Cibecs, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard Software, TippingPoint Technologies and Websense. 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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