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Breach Security Prevents Web Site Attacks, Defacements and Privacy Violations with BreachGate Sitegrity.


CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Security Appliance Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances.  Assures the Integrity of Government and Corporate Web Presence; Prevents Privacy Violations and Identity Theft with Unique ExitControl Technology

Breach Security Inc., an emerging leader in deployable application security solutions, today announced the availability of BreachGate Sitegrity(TM), a unique Web application security appliance that protects the global Web presence of large corporations and the government from malicious defacement de·face  
tr.v. de·faced, de·fac·ing, de·fac·es
1. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure.

2. To impair the usefulness, value, or influence of.

3.
, intrusions and hacker-induced information leakage Information leakage happens whenever a system that is designed to be closed to an eavesdropper reveals some information to unauthorized parties nonetheless. For example, when designing an encrypted instant messaging network, a network engineer without the capacity to crack your . Part of the BreachGate product line of application security products, Sitegrity is widely used by government agencies and large corporations.

Hackers have proven they can gain access to even the best protected corporate and government Web servers. Conventional security solutions were designed to detect and prevent attacks from trespassing across the organization's network perimeter, but do not offer a remedy in cases where the attack originated from within the perimeter or launched through deliberately open ports in firewalls that serve key applications. Additionally, most solutions do not limit the public damage if and when hackers get in -- a highly probable event. As most solutions do not address the inherent security risk involved in software outsourcing and the potential of information leakage as it relates to privacy regulations, organizations are scrambling to find a technology solution to ensure the integrity of their Web site.

In response, BreachGate Sitegrity closes this dangerous gap by ensuring that only authentic, original data leaves the organizations' Web server. The key ingredient that makes Sitegrity unique is ExitControl(TM), a powerful technology that authenticates and evaluates the application stream as it leaves the network. In many cases ExitControl not only identifies and blocks unauthentic and potentially damaging material before it leaves the network, but also substitutes authentic, non-manipulated content to assure business continuance The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit.  and delivery to the customer -- even in the middle of a security penetration.

Corporations and government agencies provide vital, often time-sensitive and private information services See Information Systems.  to meet the needs of their customers. With Breach Security's Sitegrity product, customers have the added confidence that the vital information delivered to users is authentic and correct, and assure authenticated au·then·ti·cate  
tr.v. au·then·ti·cat·ed, au·then·ti·cat·ing, au·then·ti·cates
To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine: a specialist who authenticated the antique samovar.
 delivery even during security incidents. Sitegrity also enforces policy controls for who is authorized to post new content to the web server, protecting customers from the internal threat as well as external attacks.

Examples of security intrusions where organizations risk brand damage, business interruption, financial exposure and even regulatory offenses Noun 1. regulatory offense - crimes created by statutes and not by common law
regulatory offence, statutory offence, statutory offense

crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence - (criminal law) an act punishable by law;
 from site manipulation, embedded Inserted into. See embedded system.  Trojans and other human and automated intruders include:

--Defacement of large government, military or corporate Web sites, either as a practical joke, a statement of political activism or an attempt at financial extortion extortion, in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with , events that occur every day. For example, the Franchise Tax Board Web site supplies an address for users to mail their tax checks. Simply changing two digits of the post office box number can send all checks to wrong place. The cost of such a breach -- in actual dollars and damaged reputation -- would be staggering.

--Hackers deploying malicious malware (MALicious softWARE) Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan.  such as the recent Bofra worm, which can attack innocent visitors to a usually "safe" site. In one recent case, hackers penetrated a site that serves banner advertisements to many European customers. As a result, the Bofra worm was introduced and took control of the computers of thousands of Internet users Internet user ninternauta m/f

Internet user Internet ninternaute m/f 
 after they merely browsed a normally safe site.

--In a similar attack, the Santy worm used Google, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  and Yahoo! search This article is about the Yahoo! Search Engine. For the corporation, see Yahoo! ; for other uses see Yahoo! (disambiguation).

The search engine
Introduction
Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo!, Inc.
 engines to find pages coded with vulnerable PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution.  Bulletin Board (phpBB) software. The worm erased the original Web site content and instead displayed its own text.

Whether the loss is political embarrassment, millions of dollars in revenue or the prospect of an unwanted regulatory visit and very public disclosure of an organization's inability to protect its customer's private information, that cost is too high. Sitegrity, with its powerful ExitControl(TM) feature, stops every single one of these intrusions in its tracks, while guaranteeing continued service to users in the process.

"ExitControl is a powerful tool in the battle against the new breeds of propagating worms such as Bofra," said Kevin Overcash, vice president of product management for Breach Security. "And as attacks get more targeted and are perpetrated by professional thieves rather than hobbyists and teenagers, more serious protection is required."

BreachGate Sitegrity is available in several models designed to accommodate a full range of Web server protection performance needs. Prices start at $29,000 and these high-performance, reliable appliances are scalable to the needs of very large organizations and government agencies.

About Breach Security

Breach Security is an emerging leader in deployable application security appliances. By protecting corporate and government applications, databases and Web presentation layers from attack by automated and human intruders, Breach Security provides a proven solution for common security challenges such as information leakage and identity theft, regulatory compliance initiatives, and the inherent security risks associated with software outsourcing. Founded in 2004, Breach Security is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market
close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation
 funded by Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Evergreen Partners, Pitango Venture Capital and Ascend Technology Ventures. The company is headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., with additional research and development facilities in Herzliya, Israel. More information can be found on the Web at www.breach.com.

(C) 2005 Breach Security, Inc. All rights reserved. Breach Security, BreachGate, BreachGate Sitegrity, Sitegrity, ExitControl and the Breach logo are trademarks of Breach Security, Inc. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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