NFR Security to Participate in 12th Annual Gartner IT Security Summit with Award Winning, IPv6 Compliant Intrusion Prevention Solution; Major Event Includes Demonstration of Comprehensive Sentivist 5.0 Real-Time Threat Protection(TM).ROCKVILLE, Md. -- NFR (Near Field Recording) See near field optics and Terastor. Security, Inc., the leader in Real-Time Threat Protection(TM), today announced that the company will be participating in the 12th Annual Gartner IT Security Summit, held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, June 7-9 in Washington, DC. NFR Security will demonstrate its award-winning, IPv6-compliant Sentivist 5.0 Real-Time Threat Protection(TM) intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. system (IPS (1) (Inches Per Second) The measurement of the speed of tape passing by a read/write head or paper passing through a pen plotter. (2) (IPS) (Intrusion Prevention S ), the industry's most reliable, scalable, user-friendly and flexible enterprise security solution for any size organization. The Annual Gartner IT Security Summit brings together CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, VP/Directors of IT, Network Managers, Risk Managers, Auditors, and Senior Business Executives whose jobs include enterprise-security responsibilities and critical infrastructure protection Department of Defense (DOD) program to identify and protect assets critical to the Defense Transportation System. Loss of a critical asset would result in failure to support the mission of a combatant commander. . "The Gartner IT Security Summit is one of the most anticipated events of the year for our industry and one that attracts a very high-level audience," said Andre Yee, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of NFR Security. "We expect the Summit this year to be one of the most informative due to the ever-changing security environment worldwide and the demand for IT administrators to protect their networks from increasingly complicated dynamic attacks and threats." Sentivist 5.0 is a comprehensive intrusion prevention system that fuses powerful security technologies together including: --Dynamic Shielding Architecture - Aware, Adaptive and Actionable security - automatically recognizes stealth stealth Any military technology intended to make vehicles or missiles nearly invisible to enemy radar or other electronic detection. Research in antidetection technology began soon after radar was invented. attack threat points - such as unsanctioned network changes, and critical vulnerabilities - and dynamically protects those threat points from the inevitable attacks. --Network Node Intelligence Information - Sentivist integrates, correlates and graphically displays threat point information. The information can be ranked by vulnerability, by severity, by impact, by application - virtually any structure that is important and useful. --Situational Awareness and Control - Real-time, graphical threat point and attack information give a broad view of network vulnerabilities and attack events. Simple point and click actions allow focus on specific events to monitor the source's activity and potentially take action. --High Performance Protection- Smart Sensors offer data rate ranges from 20Mbps to 10Gbps. Enterprise Series Smart Sensors offer port density, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. features and plug-in data rate expandability, guaranteeing data rate expansion without forklift upgrades. --Layers of Security - Sentivist Smart Sensors deliver IDS, IPS, Firewall, Dynamic Shielding, and protection for IM, VoIP, among others, all in one appliance and managed from a single user interface. --IPv6 Support - NFR Security is at the forefront for this important function with full support since 2002. NFR Security's Sentivist 5.0 was released in general availability in November 2005, and has since received extremely high scores in technical reviews from major industry publications such as SC Magazine, Secure Enterprise and InfoWorld. The powerful IPS solution was also the recipient of the March 2006 "Hot Pick" award from Information Security magazine. "We believe Sentivist 5.0 is the best IPS solution in the industry today for any size enterprise network," said Darrell Burkey, Director of Product Management for NFR Security. "In comparative studies, Sentivist continues to outperform Outperform An analyst recommendation meaning a stock is expected to do slightly better than the market return. Notes: Exact definitions vary by brokerage, but in general this rating is better than neutral and worse than buy or strong buy. competing solutions, and we are looking forward to several upcoming product enhancements that will continue to strengthen our leadership position." NFR Security recently announced that MSO (1) (Multiple System Operator) Typically refers to a cable TV organization that owns more than one cable system, but it may refer to an operator of only one system. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , one of the world's leading managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality provider for the financial industry, selected Sentivist 5.0 for all of their security network needs (May 22). http://www.nfr.com/news/detail.php?id=427 The company has also experienced unprecedented attention since announcing a money-back guarantee on all of its products through their "No Failure Rights" program. The only IPS vendor in the industry to offer a money-back guarantee to any customer for any of its products, NFR Security is also one of only two IPS vendors world-wide that currently offers IPv6 protection for federal agencies needing to meet the government mandate by 2008. For more information on the Gartner 12th Annual IT Security Summit, visit the website: http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/sec12.jsp About NFR Security, Inc. NFR Security is the leading provider of Real-Time Threat Protection systems that secure business networks against the four primary threat points of today - automated malware (MALicious softWARE) Software designed to destroy, aggravate and otherwise make life unhappy. See crimeware, virus, worm, logic bomb, macro virus and Trojan. , 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 , vulnerability windows and unsanctioned network changes. The company's award-winning Sentivist(R) security solution uniquely combines an array of powerful features including a hybrid detection engine, inline prevention, a full functional firewall, and the Dynamic Shielding Architecture(TM), NFR Security's core technology that uses situational intelligence to dynamically protect network services and assets against comprise, to deliver highly sought-after piece-of-mind security. For performance level coverage of 20 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. to 10 Gigabits per second, NFR Security serve customers worldwide in corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions through an extensive worldwide network of channel partners and direct sales. NFR Security is headquartered in Rockville, MD. Additional information about NFR Security can be found at www.nfr.com or by calling 1-800-234-4079. |
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