Radware (News - Alert), providing integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, announced that its behavioral protection solution was the recipient of the “approved” rating from NSS Labs. NSS Labs specializes in independent security product testing and certification.

 

Radware’s DefensePro 1020 was successful in blocking all attacks but at the same time allowed full 100 percent of legitimate traffic to pass during NSS Lab’s evaluations tests, which included rate-based attacks along with genuine traffic.

 

Bob Walder, CTO of NSS Labs remarked, “The appliance’s attack detection capabilities were excellent, as the product successfully mitigated all of our attempts. Reconnaissance, flooding, Denial of Service – both single source and distributed – and protocol fuzzing traffic were all handled very effectively by Radware’s DefensePro 1020.”

 

NSS Labs further explained that the latency and performance figures for the appliance were excellent at all traffic loads and packet sizes starting from 67 micro seconds with 250 Mbps of 128 byte packets up to a maximum of 128 micro seconds with 1Gbps of 1,514 byte packets. Very little latency was reported during the certification tests for DefensePro.

 

“The NSS certification for DefensePro confirms what we already knew, that DefensePro is the best in class concerning its ability to protect us from application and network-level threats and attacks, while enhancing the overall performance of security across our infrastructure. It reinforces our belief in the quality and advanced performance capabilities of Radware products,” announced Scott Moar, CTO of Conet eCommerce Services, Curacao’s preeminent total e-commerce solution provider.

 

The certification process of NSS Labs is transparent, scientifically repeatable and it allows high levels of independence, diligence and integrity. Real-world product testing with full application layer traffic, real verifiable exploits and live hosts are used by NSS Labs when conducting the tests.

 

The testing procedure follows appropriate use cases and protective requirements, ranging from datacenter, ecommerce datacenter, perimeter and remote office or retail storefront. Payment card network environments are also tested by NSS Labs.

 

Avi Chesla, vice-president of security, Radware Ltd. commented that NSS Labs testing and certification program provides CIOs and CSOs confidence when implementing Intrusion (News - Alert) prevention devices within their networks. The NSS report clearly demonstrates Radware’s capability in protecting against next-generation attacks with full accuracy and without human intervention.

 

Radware provides full availability, maximum performance and complete security of business-critical applications for several enterprises and carriers. Radware’s APSolute, a suite of intelligent front-end access and security products, enables companies in any industry to increase business productivity, improve profitability and bring down IT operating and infrastructure costs, making networks “business smart.”