Overview:
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
from IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) offers advanced
preemptive protection in a virtual security appliance
to help you achieve maximum business continuity using
minimal resources. Powered by the IBM ISS X-Force research
and development team, IBM Proventia Virtualized Network
Security Platform operates on virtual platforms to help
protect both your physical and virtual networks with
the same high level of security.
As a virtual appliance, IBM Proventia Virtualized
Network Security Platform provides the ideal solution
for managed cloud service providers by enabling flexible
deployments in multi-tenant virtual environments. A
single management console and a broad range of consulting
services help simplify the complexity of deploying and
managing security operations, while its modular architecture
provides extensible protection to help ensure you’re
ready for the next big threat—whenever and wherever
it may occur.
Highlights:
- Reduces costly appliance sprawl and boosts consolidation
efforts with a virtual platform for security convergence
- Extends the same robust intrusion prevention
for virtual networks that you expect from traditional
networks
- Eases security and compliance efforts by helping
to detect and block network attacks, and unauthorized
network access
- Enables cloud computing service providers to
deliver segmented security services in multi-tenant
virtual environments
- Integrates virtualized security with traditional
network protection for overall reduced complexity
of security operations
Staying ahead of evolving threats and compliance
measures
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
relies on cutting-edge Protocol Analysis Module (PAM)
technology, which is designed by X-Force to offer a
robust, extensible protection engine that adds new areas
of protection as threats evolve. With the full power
of PAM technology, IBM Proventia Virtualized Network
Security Platform is a complete network protection solution
that includes:
- Virtual Patch – Shielding a vulnerability
from exploitation independent of a software patch
- Threat Detection & Prevention – Advanced
intrusion prevention including DNS protection
- Proventia Content Analysis – Monitors
and identifies unencrypted personally identifiable
information (PII) and other confidential data
- Proventia Web application security –
Protection for web apps, Web 2.0, databases (same
protection as web application firewall)
- Network Policy Enforcement – Reclaim
bandwidth & block Skype, peer-to-peer networks,
tunneling
By consolidating security demands, such as threat
detection and prevention, data loss protection, Web
application protection and network policy enforcement,
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
helps reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining point
solutions.
Combining security with efficiency for your traditional
and virtual environments
Although security has always been a top priority
for your organization, the growing complexity and volume
of security incidents and compliance regulations has
dramatically reinforced the need for sophisticated network
protection. Yet economic reality presents an equally
compelling need to find ways to reduce hardware requirements
through consolidation and virtualization. The challenge
is reconciling these priorities without jeopardizing
either the security of your organization or your consolidation
efforts.
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
from IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) offers advanced
preemptive protection in a virtual security appliance
to help you achieve maximum business continuity using
minimal resources. Powered by the IBM ISS X-Force research
and development team, IBM Proventia Virtualized Network
Security Platform operates on virtual platforms to help
protect both your physical and virtual networks with
the same high level of security. As a virtual appliance,
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
provides the ideal solution for managed cloud service
providers by enabling flexible deployments in multitenant
virtual environments.
A single management console and a broad range of
consulting services to help simplify the complexity
of deploying and managing security operations, while
its modular architecture provides extensible protection
to help ensure you’re ready for the next big threat—whenever
and wherever it may occur.
Boosting consolidation efforts through a virtual
security appliance
Network security for traditional and virtual platforms
often requires appliances that can increase data center
requirements, adding to their size and cost. IBM Proventia
Virtualized Network Security Platform offers the best
of both worlds: the power and protection of advanced
network intrusion prevention in a virtual security appliance.
Sophisticated detection technology and virtual form
can help keep appliance sprawl to a minimum and your
consolidation plans on track, without jeopardizing the
security of network operations. High throughput and
low latency help maintain traffic flow and ensure efficient
network operations.
Extending and simplifying security operations for
virtual platforms and traditional network environments
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
extends the same high level of preemptive protection
to your virtual operations, helping you block threats
to these environments. At the same time, our solution
helps ease complexity by enabling you to manage virtual
security, traditional enterprise security and vulnerability
management from a single management interface. In addition
to minimizing the need for multiple point solutions
and resources, the ability to share network policies
and best practices between your virtual and physical
network security operations can help ensure consistency.
Staying ahead of evolving threats and compliance
measures
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
relies on leading protocol analysis module (PAM) technology,
which is designed by X-Force to offer a robust extensible
protection engine that adds new areas of protection
as threats evolve. With the full power of PAM technology,
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
is a comprehensive network protection solution that
includes:
- IBM Virtual Patch technology – Shielding vulnerabilities
from exploitation, independent of a software patch.
- Threat detection and prevention – Advanced intrusion
prevention including DNS protection.
- Proventia content analysis – Monitoring and
identification of unencrypted personally identifiable
information (PII) and other confidential data.
- Proventia Web application security – Protection
for Web apps, Web 2.0 and databases (same protection
as Web application firewall).
- Network policy enforcement – Reclaim bandwidth
and block Skype, peer-to-peer networks and tunneling.
By consolidating security demands, such as threat
detection and prevention, data loss protection, Web
application protection and network policy enforcement,
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
helps reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining point
solutions. This modular technology can help safeguard
your networks from attack categories and threats, including:
- Worms and spyware
- Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service
(DDoS)
- Botnets
- Targeted attacks against Web applications
- Proprietary or sensitive data leaving the network
Enabling security services in cloud computing
IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform
provides the virtual appliance that enables managed
cloud service providers to protect specific virtual
network segments with the option of customized security
policies or “trust X-Force” default configurations.
With the ability to deliver new revenue-generating services
powered by the security of X-Force, cloud service providers
can gain a significant competitive differentiator while
delivering the reliability their clients demand.
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