Application and Content Security
These categories of security technology solutions include email security such as encryption, content and spam filtering, Web application scanners and assessment tools, Web application firewalls, and host-centric protection products such as HIDS, HIPS, and host-based firewall solutions. This category also includes data level encryption such as host-based and whole-disk encryption, network-based and storage encryption, and application-specific encryption technology such as database encryption.
Application Security, Inc. is the leading provider of database security solutions for the enterprise. AppSecInc products proactively secure enterprise applications at more than 300 organizations around the world by discovering, assessing, and protecting the database against rapidly changing security threats. By securing data at its source, we enable organizations to more confidently extend their business with customers, partners and suppliers. Our security experts, combined with our strong support team, deliver up-to-date application safeguards that minimize risk and eliminate its impact on business.
Determina® is a leading provider of proactive host intrusion prevention solutions (HIPS) for servers and desktops based on breakthrough technology developed at M.I.T. Determina Vulnerability Protection Suite™ (VPS™), a host-based intrusion prevention solution, is designed with a fundamentally new concept in endpoint security. While other solutions try to keep up with multiplying attacks and attack variations for each vulnerability, VPS is a breakthrough approach designed to address the vulnerabilities themselves. When a vulnerability is protected, all the attacks including the multitude of variations that exploit that vulnerability, are immediately defeated.
Founded in 1998, FaceTime enables the safe and productive use of greynets like instant messaging, Skype, web conferencing and P2P file sharing. Ranked number one in market share among instant messaging management vendors for the third consecutive year, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 800 customers including nine of the ten largest U.S. banks. FaceTime Security Labs delivers the industry's first IMPact Index, which assesses "point-in-time" risks posed by viruses, worms and other malware propagating through greynet applications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and private IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM, Reuters, and Jabber.
Imperva is the leader in data security in the data center. The award-winning SecureSphere product line provides data security, data assurance, and regulatory compliance for sensitive and proprietary data in corporate data centers. SecureSphere protects databases and web applications against insider threats, as well as external attack and worm infection. It requires no manual tuning and no changes to existing infrastructure. Imperva SecureSphere gateway appliances are deployed in leading financial, healthcare, and retail organizations around the globe. Led by Shlomo Kramer, a Check Point Software Technologies founder, Imperva is privately funded by Accel Partners, US Venture Partners, and Venrock Associates.
Ingrian DataSecure Platforms. Ingrian Networks offers organizations an effective way to secure sensitive data from internal and external threats and cost-effectively comply with a range of regulatory mandates for encryption. Featuring a dedicated security appliance and specialized software, Ingrian DataSecure Platforms enable organizations to encrypt data in applications and databases. As a result, organizations can ensure that critical data-such as credit card numbers, account numbers, and other sensitive information-is always secured.
Ingrian DataSecure Platforms enable organizations to encrypt data in applications and databases. DataSecure is the only appliance-based encryption solution available today that features granular, field-level encryption capabilities and that can be integrated at the Web server, application server, or database layer. In addition, DataSecure centralizes cryptographic processing, key and policy management, and security administration, which yields tremendous advantages in terms of security, scalability, and manageability.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. Offering two families of products, McAfee System Protection Solutions, securing desktops and servers, and McAfee Network Protection Solutions, ensuring the protection and performance of the corporate network, McAfee offers computer security to large enterprises, governments, small and medium businesses, and consumers.
NetContinuum is the leading provider of ASIC-based web security appliances that consolidate all critical DMZ functionality into a single system to enable cost-effective deployment of secure web applications.
NetContinuum was founded in 1999 by a team of senior engineers with deep experience building carrier-grade, application-aware networking and security systems. They shared a singular vision that the emergence of the web as a mainstream business driver would alter the shape of corporate data centers, particularly in the realm of security.
PGP Corporation provides a comprehensive suite of products that meets a full range of secure messaging and information storage needs-from automatic, transparent organization-wide secure messaging implemented at the network level (PGP Universal) to solutions implemented at the desktop level in a multinational conglomerate to desktop security that provides a high level of user-controlled configuration options (PGP Desktop). These trusted, scalable, end-to-end products include email and disk encryption solutions, centralized IT deployment and security policy enforcement tools, and security infrastructure features for key creation, authentication, and management.
The messaging infrastructure in most large organizations is under constant attack from incoming threats that hinder productivity, waste resources, and add new risks in the form of network impacts, downtime, or even employee lawsuits.
But messaging security involves much more than simply stopping spam, fraud and viruses. The enterprise is also facing a security challenge from within the organization in the form of outgoing email content that can leak through the messaging infrastructure-unintentionally or maliciously-and cause harm. A growing number of corporate policies and regulatory compliance mandates have arisen in recent years, and IT departments are pressured to ensure that messaging coming into and out of an enterprise is secure and compliant with policies and regulations.
SafeNet provides complete security utilizing its encryption technologies to protect communications, intellectual property and digital identities, and offers a full spectrum of products including hardware, software, and chips.
SafeNet technology is the de facto standard in remote access client software and the market leader in USB authentication tokens that eliminate user names and passwords; SSL acceleration devices providing fast and secure online transactions; software security, and licensing products preventing software piracy; high-assurance security products; and SecureIP Technology licensed to Internet infrastructure manufacturers, service providers, and security vendors.
Born out of the new security needs for an interconnected era, SecureWave took a view that more of the same would not deliver what customers were looking for. A fresh approach that tipped the legacy security model on its head became the guiding principle behind what is today Sanctuary. Honed and refined through sales to a premier list of customers who are serious about creating a secure and trusted environment, Sanctuary is putting companies on the road to a more efficient effective definitive and intrinsic security model.
SPI Dynamics, the expert in business application security testing and assessment, provides products that empower organizations to address flaws in the application layer throughout the lifecycle, and assess the risk associated with current business applications that are already in active use within the corporate environment.
Symantec, provides a broad range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. The company is a leading provider of client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, and remote management technologies and security services to enterprises and service providers.
TIZOR has developed a new, patent-pending approach to automating internal auditing and data security. TIZOR’s Mantra™ data auditing appliances are capable of monitoring all of your critical data activity, even in the largest corporate data centers, without interrupting the flow of information to users. Mantra, employing TIZOR’s unique Behavioral Fingerprinting® technology, not only recognizes the behavioral changes that signal danger to your critical data assets but also creates a comprehensive audit trail that will satisfy even the strictest privacy and compliance regulations. TIZOR’s Mantra solution is easy to deploy and use, scalable, affordable and speaks to the needs of any organization with critical data to protect - financial, healthcare or strategic.
Trend Micro Incorporated is a global leader in antivirus and Internet content security software and services. Founded in 1988 by Steve Chang, the company led the migration of virus protection from the desktop to the network server and the Internet gateway, gaining a reputation for vision and technological innovation along the way. Today, Trend Micro focuses on providing customers with a comprehensive approach to managing the impact of mixed-threats to their productivity and their information, through such initiatives as Trend Micro Enterprise Protection Strategy.
Tumbleweed Communications is a leader in providing secure Internet messaging software products for enterprise and government customers of all sizes. Tumbleweed solutions are used to make email, file transfer, and Web communications secure, reliable, and automated.
VMware® ACE gives security administrators the ability to lock down PC endpoints and protect critical company resources against the risks presented by unmanaged PCs. With VMware ACE, security administrators package an IT-managed PC within a secured virtual machine and deploy it to an unmanaged physical PC. Once installed, VMware ACE provides a secured and IT-compliant PC endpoint, enabling safe access to IT resources. VMware ACE offers complete control of the hardware configuration and networking capabilities of an unmanaged PC, transforming it into an IT-compliant PC endpoint. This unique capability for improving endpoint security can be used internally, remotely, connected or disconnected from the trusted network. VMware ACE increases the security and reduces the cost of enabling unmanaged PCs to access IT resources.
Founded in 1994, and recently recognized as one of Forbes Magazine's 2004 "Top 25 Technology Companies," Websense serves more than 17.9 million employees worldwide and has 22,800 customers, ranging in size from 100-person organizations to multinational corporations.