IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform

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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Documentation:

Download the IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform Datasheet (PDF).