Notícias
Mayo 2006
BorderWare Infinity Platform, la primera plataforma integrada de seguridad de contenidos (inglés)
May 2nd 2006 - BorderWare Technologies Inc., the leading provider of content and application security today announced the BorderWare Infinity™ Platform, the first truly integrated content security platform. Driven by the convergence of threats encompassing all communications protocols including email, instant messaging, web, and VoIP content, customers can no longer rely on conventional point products and reactive threat prevention services to secure their converging networks and ensure corporate and regulatory compliance and personal data privacy requirements are met. Designed to provide a single policy to protect both inbound and outbound traffic for all communications protocols, BorderWare Infinity Platform provides on-demand scalability and unmatched resilience to address the needs of the most demanding networks. A technology preview of the BorderWare Infinity Platform will be demonstrated at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas, May 2nd through 4th, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
"Threats are changing and business communications are using more and more network protocols. Enterprises need next generation security solutions that efficiently and effectively protect all communications channels," said John Pescatore, Vice President of Gartner, Inc.
Single Policy, Single Platform, Multiple Protocols
Customers now face a converging threat landscape involving multiple attacks across a variety of protocols, including SMTP, HTTP and now instant messaging and VoIP. As new blended threats emerge such as virus infected botnets/zombies used for spam campaigns, the ability for customers to enforce a single policy across all IP traffic types is critical. With BorderWare Infinity Platform, customers no longer need to add a new class of devices to protect against every new threat, nor do they need to implement and manage separate policies for each traffic type.
Specifically, BorderWare Infinity Platform provides centralized policy enforcement, monitoring, reporting and auditing for all communications through a common interface on a scalable, reliable hardware platform. Managing and coordinating security policies across disparate applications has become a thing of the past. Maintaining separate management and reporting devices are no longer necessary to correlate blended threats from the same IP addresses. The integrated capability of the BorderWare Infinity Platform makes discovering these attacks effortless.
“Many security providers continue to play a feature/function game and push better widgets into the market but remain blind to the security implications of converged networks,” said Tim Leisman, CEO of Borderware. “Borderware is the only security provider able to prevent inbound threats, control outbound content and centralize management of all IP communications.”
A single, integrated policy provides administrators with the ability to control traffic across multiple communications protocols. This is critical to meet global compliance and privacy requirements to protect confidential information. For example, a policy can be implemented to prevent internal users from sending healthcare data to unauthorized sources via email. That same policy blocks attempts to send the information via instant messaging, web mail or blogs. Harnessing the power of a single policy, BorderWare Infinity Platform allows customers to protect the content with a single rule or filter, and not worry about the protocols.
Proactive Protection through Behavioral Modeling
For email, sender reputation has proven to be an effective means of helping to determine whether a message should be accepted. But as IP threats multiply, reputation must evolve to gather and correlate data not only related to email but also IM, web and other IP communications activities. A key enabler of the BorderWare Infinity Platform is the Borderware Security Network (BSN – see accompanying press release), which transcends simple sender reputation to provide an all-encompassing view of the real-time behavior of an IP address. The BSN consists of more than 8,000 BorderWare customer systems in 65 countries collaborating and proactively gathering detailed data about attacks, supplementing industry standard data, providing general information from over half a billion sources.
Linear Scalability through On-Demand Clustering
Today’s content security appliances are not infrastructure efficient. If one traffic type (email, for example) sees significant increases in volume, organizations must add new application specific appliances. BorderWare Infinity Platform introduces a ground-breaking innovation called On-Demand Clustering for linear scalability to make better use of enterprise hardware resources and provide more unrivaled scalability.
With On-Demand Clustering, the BorderWare Infinity Platform uses a grid approach by configuring a set of devices into a single content security cluster that appears to be one virtual gateway. With processing distributed across multiple separate devices, BorderWare Infinity Platform can start small (with as few as two devices) and scale to thousands of devices as traffic requirements dictate. Combined with BorderWare Infinity Platform’s ability to secure all IP applications, there is no longer a need for customers to buy purpose-built hardware for specific protocols.
“BorderWare Infinity Platform’s on-demand clustering approach is a significant innovation,” said Andrew Graydon, BorderWare’s CTO. “Additional capacity, which can be utilized for all protected applications, is added by just by plugging in a new device. It takes just a few minutes. It’s really that simple.”
Additionally, the BorderWare Infinity Platform does not require a dedicated “management appliance.” All management capabilities (policy configuration, monitoring, reporting and auditing) are available for the cluster through a single cluster management interface, which can be accessed from any cluster member.
Unmatched Resilience
With IP communications a critical part of any business today, organizations must ensure that data is protected in the event of a hardware failure. BorderWare Infinity Platform provides an innovative way to handle the problem. By implementing advanced clustering and BorderWare’s patent-pending Queue Replication service, the BorderWare Infinity Platform ensures that data is never lost as long as one device in the cluster remains operational. No lost messages, no retransmissions, no dropped sessions – BorderWare Infinity Platform eliminates downtime for content security, which is critical as convergence makes the availability of the infrastructure of paramount importance.
Integration with Network Equipment
As opposed to requiring another device to sit on the edge of the network just to reduce the amount of traffic hitting the appliance, the BorderWare Infinity Platform uniquely and natively integrates with network equipment from F5 and Cisco. Customers can use their existing network gear to block badly behaving IP addresses in real-time. This allows customers to restrict not only bad email senders, but also block IM offenders and IPs that frequently launch port scans.
Availability
The technology preview announcing the BorderWare Infinity Platform at Interop 2006 demonstrates BorderWare’s continued development to release leading-edge solutions to meet the needs of the converging threat landscape. In Q4 2005, BorderWare released MXtreme 6.0 forming the first component of the BorderWare Infinity Platform. Today, BorderWare announces enhancements to this platform allowing businesses to prevent threats across multiple protocols including email, instant messaging and web with the ability to set single policies to set outbound compliance rules across these communications channels.
The pricing model for the BorderWare Infinity Platform will allow companies to choose the required modules that apply to them. The ability to license only email specific features or a combination of email, IM and web, for example, means that the BorderWare Infinity Platform will be priced according to actual business requirements.
Current MXtreme customers will acquire the benefits of the BorderWare Infinity Platform by simply licensing this new multi-protocol functionality, which will be available in Q4 2006.