Industry First: Breach Delivers Cloud to Data Center Web Application Defense-in-Depth Solution
Breach Security Collaborates with Akamai to Integrate Security Intelligence from the Cloud with Launch of WebDefend Global Event Manager - Helping Customers Optimize Security from the Akamai Edge to the Enterprise Data Center
CARLSBAD, Calif. Dec. 14, 2009 — Breach Security, Inc., the leader in web application integrity, security and compliance announced the release of the WebDefend Global Event Manager, a solution developed to work in conjunction with the new Web Application Firewall service offered by Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online. When deployed with Akamai’s Web Application Firewall service, the WebDefend Global Event Manager is the first web application security management solution that defends against global application security threats by enabling customers to make distributed cloud and data center defense-in-depth architectures operational.
The WebDefend Global Event Manager is designed to work in concert with Akamai’s solutions across joint customers’ web environments in real-time to accurately detect and block attacks, prevent unauthorized data leakage, improve performance and identify and remediate web application coding errors. The launch of the Akamai Web Application Firewall service adds a compelling new layer of defense for web applications.
“Enabling content delivery cloud networks with an off-premises web application firewall is an interesting new deployment option for web security including PCI compliance,” said Greg Young, Research VP of Gartner.
The WebDefend Global Event Manager enables customers to consolidate logs and intelligence from the Akamai Web Application Firewall service with events and the deep application visibility provided by Breach’s WebDefend solutions, which are deployed in customer data centers.
The distributed cloud and data center defense-in-depth solution provides enterprises and leading web properties with the following break-through capabilities:
- Defense-in-Depth: Visualize and monitor the security, compliance, and health of their entire web application environment, from the cloud to the customer data center
- Optimize Application Performance: Continuously optimize the balance between web application performance and security by implementing distributed detection and blocking of malicious traffic with maximum efficacy, minimizing attack-related consumption of communication and processing resources across the entire web application environment
- Automation: Automatically generate combined cloud and data center web application reporting for trending, audit and compliance purposes
- Detailed Event Reporting: Deliver integrated web application security events to security operations centers, security event and incident management solutions, governance, risk and compliance solutions, and managed security service providers
“Akamai’s innovative relationship with Breach, a known leader and innovator in the web application firewall market, is structured to enable our joint customers go beyond ‘defense-in-depth’ for complex web applications,” said John Summers, senior product line director for Akamai. “When customers use Breach’s WebDefend together with Akamai’s cloud based solutions, they will be able to apply a defense-in-depth approach at the application layer, while experiencing the performance benefits of the Akamai Platform and the operational visibility that helps WebDefend stand apart in the Web application firewall market today.”
“Akamai, a true technology pioneer with a uniquely capable service delivery platform, understands the urgent need for all organizations to protect their web applications,” said Sanjay Mehta, senior vice president for Breach Security. “Breach is delighted to support Akamai’s use of the ModSecurity Core Rule Set in the Akamai Web Application Firewall service. We believe that enabling customers to block threats at the Akamai Edge, can lead to improved performance and efficiency for their web-based applications. Breach is completing the picture by presenting Akamai’s real time intelligence from the cloud with the WebDefend Global Event Manager in a way that is designed to enable our joint customers to accelerate and streamline the identification, prioritization and remediation of web application attacks from the Akamai Edge to the customer’s data center.”
About the WebDefend Global Event Manager – Breach’s market leading web application integrity, security, and PCI compliance solution, WebDefend, now provides users with the capability to analyze and manage security events from the new Akamai Web Application Firewall service in real-time along with events from WebDefend and ModSecurity sensors deployed in the data center. The new capability provides users of the Akamai Web Application Firewall service with the ability to analyze detailed security events using the real-time web application context provided by the origin-based WebDefend Global Event Manager. With visibility across the application infrastructure, users can identify malicious traffic and customize blocking actions either in the Akamai cloud or within the corporate data center. The WebDefend Global Event Manager enables joint customers to make defense-in-depth tactics operational. The WebDefend Global Event Manager will be available for evaluation in mid-November 2009 as a standard component of the WebDefend Manager Appliance.
WebDefend’s positive security model learns the behavior of custom and packaged web applications, identifies anomalous web site interaction, blocks attacks including targeted zero day attacks and prevents data leakage at the origin, thereby maximizing compliance and the security of private information and valuable digital content. In addition, WebDefend’s unmatched application visibility enables organizations to identify and rapidly remediate application health issues thereby improving the user experience and lowering development and QA costs.
About Akamai Web Application Firewall service – Today Akamai announced its new Web Application Firewall service. The service can be configured to alert and block common and recurring web application attacks as well as application-specific attacks in the cloud – preventing malicious traffic from traversing the Akamai network and burdening customers’ web application infrastructures. The Akamai Web Application Firewall service deploys the logic of Breach’s Application Security Rule Set on its uniquely capable and positioned Akamai EdgePlatformTM. Breach Labs, the research arm of Breach Security, provides engineering support and security analysis for Akamai’s development of the Web Application Firewall service. To learn more about Web Application Firewall, as well as Akamai’s comprehensive suite of cloud-based security offerings, please visit www.akamai.com/security
About Breach Security
Breach Security, Inc. is the leading provider of real-time, continuous web application integrity, security and compliance that protects sensitive web-based information. Breach Security’s products protect web applications from hacking attacks and data leakage, and ensure applications operate as intended. The company’s products are trusted by thousands of organizations around the world, including leaders in finance, healthcare, ecommerce, travel and government. For more information, please visit www.breach.com.
The Akamai Difference
Akamai® (NASDAQ: AKAM) provides market-leading managed services for powering video, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai’s services have been adopted by the world’s most recognized brands across diverse industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai’s global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, interact, and collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.
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