Radware Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for
Intrusion Prevention System Appliances ( MAHWAH, N.J., April 20, 2009 )
Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), the leading provider of integrated application
delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced it has been
positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for
Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances.1
Radware’s DefensePro™ is a real-time Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that
maintains business continuity by protecting IP infrastructures against existing
and emerging network-based threats that cannot be detected by traditional IPS’
such as: application misuse threats, SSL attacks and VoIP service misuse.
DefensePro features full protection against vulnerability-based threats through
proactive signature updates, which safeguard against already known attacks
including worms, Trojans, Bots, SSL-based attacks and VoIP threats.
“We consider being positioned in the Visionaries quadrant to be a validation of our
understanding of and commitment to the network security market,” stated Avi
Chesla, Vice-President Security Products, Radware. “We focus on providing the
correct blend of innovative detection and protection technologies to best meet
and exceed the requirements of our customers.”
DefensePro delivers unique behavioral-based technology that automatically,
generates real-time signatures. This prevents non-vulnerability-based threats and
zero-minute attacks such as application misuse attacks, server brute force
attacks, application and network flooding - without blocking legitimate user traffic
and no need for human intervention. The product line is based on a pay-as-you-
grow license upgrade approach and ease of management through ‘hands-off’
security features such as no-configuration and self-tuning.
According to the Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System
Appliances, “The network IPS market subsumed the intrusion detection system
(IDS) market several years ago and contains all of the detection features of IDS
with two critical areas of improvement: Intrusion prevention moves beyond simple
attack signature detection to add vulnerability-based signature and non-signature
detection capabilities; and network IPS sensors operate at wire speeds to enable
inline automated blocking and attack handling.”
The research report further cites that, “the challenge in combating arbitrary
malware is in better handling the “gray list,” or suspicious traffic that is neither
known good (white list) nor known bad (black list).”
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