Mahwah, NJ - January 27, 2003 - Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR) the leading provider of intelligent Application Switching (IAS), ensuring availability, performance and the integrity of networked applications across the enterprise, today announced the immediate availability of protection against the world's newest dangerous virus attack - the SQL Slammer. On January 25 the virus spread across the United States, Asia and Europe, overwhelming network infrastructures by replicating quickly and aggressively sending out probes that overwhelmed many Internet data pipelines. The virus slowed Internet traffic, preventing users from accessing websites and affected several banks worldwide, as customers could not withdraw money from ATM machines.
Radware's SynApps Application Security module, available on all Radware Application Switching devices, recognizes and terminates malicious sessions, while providing optimization and acceleration of applications and services such as web servers, application servers, DNS and email servers, security devices and ISP links.
"Radware is the only vendor in the market to provide real time intrusion prevention against more than 1000 application attacks and our protection against the SQL Slammer illustrates our speed, flexibility and continual focus on protecting our customers while safeguarding their application and resource security," said Amir Peles, Chief Technology Officer, Radware. "By continuously monitoring all network traffic at Gigabit speeds, Radware's intrusion prevention detects and prevents malicious attacks in real time, immediately terminating suspicious sessions to completely protect enterprise operations from hacking."
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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. For more information, please visit us at www.radware.com