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Radware’s APSolute Immunity Provides Networks with Ability to Fight
June 2008 by Marc Jacob
Radware introduced its APSolute Immunity security initiative, a new strategic approach that maintains business continuity by protecting the applications infrastructure against existing and emerging network
based threats that cannot be detected by traditional IPS such as: application misuse threats, SSL attacks and VoIP service mis-use. Coupled with Radware’s DefensePro security solution, this
umbrella security strategy allows organizations to move beyond static intrusion prevention systems (IPS) by mitigating attacks that use legitimate application services for malicious activity.
Radware’s APSolute Immunity strategy reflects the human immune system’s ability to combat a
myriad of known and unknown diseases, often without the need of vaccinations, by providing
“immunity” against known and unknown vulnerabilities that seek to compromise the health of the
application infrastructure. This is vital in ensuring real-time protection against many of today’s
targeted financially motivated attacks that require more than simple, signature-based detection —
including non-vulnerability based threats that misappropriate the use of an application without
exploiting any software flaw in its design. Examples of such threats include phishing, brute force,
network and application flooding as well as network and application scanning. These threats
behave like legitimate user transactions and cannot be detected through a standard signaturebased
IPS.
With today’s introduction of the APSolute Immunity initiative, Radware also offers an upgraded
DefensePro solution, version 4.10. This enhanced offering provides greater network visibility,
generating detailed reports as to the nature of a network threat or attack, and drawing on client
behavioral, network-behavioral and server-behavioral analysis to solve the “lag” associated with
non-vulnerability and zero-minute attacks. DefensePro incorporates vulnerability-based IPS
features with adaptive behavioral-based IPS that support automatic real-time attack signature generation, to maintain critical application availability when under non vulnerability-based or
zero-minute attack by blocking attack traffic without blocking legitimate user traffic.
Additionally, under the APSolute Immunity umbrella strategy, Radware offers organizations the
opportunity to greatly reduce operation expenditures, by offering seamless integration of its
transparent security solutions into the network environment by requiring zero modifications to
network settings. Further organizational value is achieved through the strategy’s “hands-off”
approach as APSolute Immunity is self-learning and self-protecting, requiring no human
intervention while the network is under attack, and no need for advanced configuration and
tuning.
