Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR) the leading provider of intelligent Application Switching (IAS), ensuring the availability, performance and security of networked applications across the enterprise, today 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 http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/InEvaluation.html
About Radware
Radware is dedicated to providing Intelligent Application Switching, guaranteeing the best operation and servicing of IP applications and enterprise traffic across the Internet. Radware aligns application needs with the network infrastructure to seamlessly allocate resources, optimize application operations and extend security, ensuring the integrity of critical business processes.
Radware’s solutions address the needs of corporate enterprises, service providers, and e-commerce business through one or more of our award winning products including: Web Server Director (WSD), Cache Server Director (CSD), FireProof, Content Inspection Director (CID), LinkProof, Peer Director, CertainT 100. Our comprehensive suite of products service end-to-end application operations, providing robust and scalable network traffic assurance. Get certain, from click to content, across your network -- with Radware.
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