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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 28, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 30
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Breaking News -
Security:
Radware To Protect Against Cisco
Router Vulnerability
Radware the leading provider of intelligent Application Switching (IAS),
ensuring the availability, performance and security of networked applications
across the enterprise, announced the immediate availability of protection
against Cisco's IOS software vulnerability. This exploit allows remote
attackers to target and cripple network interfaces on vulnerable devices by
sending a sequence of IPv4 packets. This particular attack poses immense
danger to the majority of routers deployed across all networks worldwide.
Radware's SynApps Application Security module, available on all Radware
Application Switching devices, automatically protects networks against Denial
of Service threats, as well as more than one thousand application attacks.
SynApps now recognizes and terminates the malicious sessions associated with
this latest Cisco vulnerability while providing optimization and acceleration
of applications and services operating on web servers, application servers,
DNS and email servers, security devices and ISP links. Radware protection
against the recent attack on Cisco routers does not require a code change to
the Application Security module. Customers can install their own filters
against the attack, thereby enabling them to take full and independent control
of their security policy enforcement.
"Radware's immediate protection against the recent attack on Cisco routers
exemplifies our flexibility and continual focus on protecting our customers
with site wide security that safeguards all core applications and critical
resources," said Amir Peles, Chief Technology Officer, Radware. "Radware is
the only vendor in the market to provide real time application level security,
delivering intrusion prevention and Denial of Service protection to
continuously identify and block suspicious traffic at multi-Gigabit speeds.
Our SynApps Architecture prevents the damage caused by this recent attack by
intelligently recognizing the profile of the attack and denying it access to
critical network resources."
About SynApps Application Aware Architecture
Radware's award winning SynApps Architecture assures all network operations
by
providing comprehensive services for running and scaling mission critical
applications. SynApps is comprised of health monitoring of site wide resources
for real time detection of application degradations and failures, traffic
redirection and load balancing to intelligently direct all network traffic,
bandwidth management (QoS) to control application service levels and cost,
real-time intrusion prevention and DoS protection to ensure complete
application and resource security.
SynApps is in the process of becoming Common Criteria validated. Common
Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) is to establish a national
program for the evaluation of information technology products for conformance
to the International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security
Evaluation. For more information, please visit
niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/InEvaluation.html .
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