SilverBack Announces Software Security Enhancements; Solution Providers Profit from Ability to Deliver Comprehensive Managed Firewall Services.BILLERICA, Mass. -- SilverBack(R) Technologies, Inc., the industry's leading provider of integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. , systems, application and security monitoring software for the midtier, today announced enhanced monitoring and security capabilities to the SilverBack software suite. The new security alerting capabilities enable partners to sell and profit from more sophisticated managed firewall services. The security enhancements utilize the existing SilverBack console so that partners can realize immediate revenue opportunities as well as preserve the existing equipment investment - both in SilverBack - and in their clients' deployed infrastructure. "Security firewalls are the first line of defense in securing corporate networks from malicious attacks on the Internet - but catastrophic security leaks can occur if they're not properly maintained and monitored," said John Igoe, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. at SilverBack. "Firewalls begin to age as soon as they're installed. Solution providers have a lucrative business opportunity here since small and medium-sized companies typically don't have the staff or time required to maintain constant vigilance on the firewall." The SilverBack software enhancements provide more sophisticated monitoring of security policies and the overall health of firewalls including: authentication issues; fail-over conditions; Denial of Service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. (DoS) attacks; dropped traffic and associated applications and ports; routing errors, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. failures, IDS "Ping of Death A ping request that crashes the target computer. It is caused by an invalid packet size value in the packet header. There are patches for most operating systems to prevent it. See denial of service attack. ," and probing attempts. SilverBack also monitors the overall system health of the firewall for such performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. as CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , memory, disk, and latency to assure it is filtering and processing security events optimally. The security capabilities will provide additional relief for those midtier corporations who are increasing the use of the Internet for day-to-day business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets , and as a result, must deal with a growing number of Internet-based corporate network attacks. A Forbes Magazine report found that a typical security break-in can cost an average $98K in user access costs. Capitalizing on its strengths in combining security and network management in one integrated view, SilverBack software isolates genuine security attacks from legitimate surges in traffic that mimic DoS attacks - eliminating unnecessary network shut downs. Solution providers gain from operational enhancements in the new software release including: --Faster and more precise alerts on security issues and other network events for faster identification and resolution. --Intelligent filtering to more easily sort, analyze and aggregate up to gigabytes of daily logs generated by firewalls into meaningful events for easy prioritization and remediation. --Automatic noise elimination by mining and alerting for the most relevant security issues. --Consolidation of events from multiple security devices in the overall IT infrastructure; presented in easy-to-use and actionable formats. --Enhanced alerting capabilities (i.e., severity and conditional) to more precisely track, delegate and resolve events that could degrade service, resulting in better customer response and profitable service delivery. "SilverBack has raised the bar once again with these new security monitoring enhancements to SilverBack software, which make a valuable product even more valuable," said Danny Johnston, 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 Safe Systems and Gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. Technology. "Once again SilverBack has managed to be a market-leader in providing us with the products and services we need to be competitive and keep our end-customers satisfied." SilverBack's new firewall monitoring and security capabilities compliment existing features focused on protecting internal resources, including intrusion monitoring, patch management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique , and vulnerability scanning. There are currently more than 1000 end-customer accounts that use SilverBack's software in their IT infrastructures. SilverBack's software supports the market-leading firewalls for small-to-medium business and enterprise environments including Cisco Pix History Cisco PIX (Private Internet EXchange) is a firewall originally conceived in March 1994 by John Mayes of Redwood City, California and coded by Brantley Coiles of Athens, Georgia. , WatchGuard, SonicWall, Netscreen/Juniper, and Checkpoint, among others. "SilverBack's new security enhancements are a welcome addition to the services we currently offer our customers," said Al Gossett, President and CEO of Digital-DNS. "Our partnership with SilverBack has always allowed us to provide our customers with access to a broad range of monitoring and security features. Any business considering an enterprise-wide rollout of IT monitoring and security should take a serious look at SilverBack's products." The enhanced security capabilities are available immediately to all SilverBack authorized partners as part of SilverBack's latest software release. SilverBack partners have the option to offer managed firewall services as a stand-alone package or sell managed firewall services that combine monitoring, firewall code updates, automatic incident response and management to resolution. Suggested client pricing and packaging support is available to all SilverBack Platinum partners. About SilverBack Located in Billerica, Massachusetts Billerica (IPA: [bɪl.'ɹɪ.kə]) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 38,981 at the 2000 census. Its name is pronounced "bill-RICK-a", rather than rhyming with America. , SilverBack Technologies, Inc., is the leading provider of affordable, fast, easy and secure IT monitoring software for the mid-tier. SilverBack's mission is to deliver comprehensive IT and security monitoring to the masses, via a select group of global VARs, systems integrators and solution providers. SilverBack software is available in three convenient packages enabling channel partners of all types to deliver IT and security monitoring as a fully integrated, plug-and-play product, or as a highly profitable suite of 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 . SilverBack's award-winning software costs up to 60 percent less than existing IT management solutions. For more information on SilverBack, please visit our Web site at www.silverbacktech.com. SilverBack is a registered trademark and the SilverBack logo, SilverBack Datacenter, SilverBack Portable, SilverBack Professional, are trademarks of SilverBack Technologies, Inc. Other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective holders. Copyright 2004, SilverBack Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. About Safe Systems, Inc. Safe Systems, Inc. was founded by Danny Johnston, the President and CEO, in 1993 and is one of the nation's fastest growing network integration companies serving community banks in over 40 states. The company's mission is to help banks wisely select and implement network and Internet technology solutions that establish a strong foundation for successful banking growth. For more information on Safe Systems, please visit the web site at www.safesystems.com. About Digital-DNS Digital-DNS, Inc., headquartered in Greenville, SC, is a leading provider of technology solutions and services to clients throughout the Southeast. The company provides StressFree I/T I/T Inner Tank (R) Enterprise Monitoring Services (EMS), management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects , hardware, software, communications, security, network integration, hosting, applications integration, and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . For more information on Digital-DNS, Inc., contact Corporate Affairs at 864-370-3706 or visit our web site at http://www.digital-dns.com. |
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