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"It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. ." — Harold W. Dodds

September '09 Issue

Proactive DDoS Protection
News Update: Can the president shut down the internet?
Press Release: Infonetics Research finds Zscaler among the top brands in SaaS Security
Upcoming Events: VoIP Security Workshop

Proactive DDoS Protectection

Companies receive extortion threats on a daily basis. Growth of online banking, ecommerce, online gaming, online information sharing and other forms of transactions paved way for online fraud, identity theft and data theft from cyber criminals.

DDoS is the #1 threat to availability of Interner facing applications today. Organizations who experience a prolonged or repeated series of real time DDoS attacks can put their business down due to significant loss of revenue and customer confidence. DDoS attacks cannot be prevented, so detection is imperative before they begin to make sure that your are "Always open for business."

Companies now don't have to worry anymore of deploying technology in house to prevent or mitgate an attack through "In the clouds" DDoS prevention service which is an effective way to protect mulitple locations. It's also a cost-effective way of assuring your customers a clean circuits and unhampered online presence.

Prolexic, was the first company to establish global scubbing centers to stop DDoS attacks in the clouds. Tens of thousands of domains and hundreds of organizations entrust their networks to Prolexic Technologies because they provide:

Remote network monitoring and DDoS detection
Advanced threat indentification and notification
Integrated technological and process control to re-route
Traffic on demand in responsive to attack conditions
Best-in-class attack mitigation network.
Regular scheduled testing of monitoring, alerting, notification and mitigation systems and controls.

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Can the president shut down the internet?

A revision to the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, the proposed Rockefeller-Snowe legislation in Congress, has drawn criticism because of concerns that it would give the president power to shut down the internet.

The proposed law, introduced in April by Sen. John (Jay) Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, originally contained a controversial clause that said: “The president may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of internet traffic to and from any compromised federal government or critical infrastructure information system or network.”

The bill recently was revised, and the new language now reads: “The president may declare a cybersecurity emergency; and may, if the president finds it necessary for the national defense and security…direct the national response to the cyberthreat and the timely restoration of the affected critical infrastructure information system or network.”

Additionally, concerns are directed at the proposed power to determine whether an event is really an emergency and to assign any agency to deal with it.

Enabling Security for VoIP Remote Users

Enterprise has no choice but to extend its IP PBX to remote users, road warriors and even supply chain partners to realize the full benefits of unified communications.

Traditionally, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and other security products, such as firewalls, have been deployed to create a secure tunnel across the Internet and to protect the enterprise against attack. But are traditional data security products such as Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) VPNs able to handle VoIP remote users, or do you need VoIP-specific products? Are IPSec VPNs even an option for unified communications on a mobile phone or hard phone? What are all the security issues that need to be addressed to enable VoIP remote users?

Download the free white paper from Sipera that answers theses questions and find out how you can securely enable VoIP remote users with a VoIP-specific solution.

Infonetics Research finds Zscaler among the top brands in SaaS Security

Zscaler has 43% aided awareness rate among IT decision makers in enterprises

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug 31, 2009 – Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud-delivered, multi-tenant Security-as-a-Service (SaaS), today announced that Zscaler was in the top four brand names when enterprises were asked about SaaS security providers in market research conducted by Infonetics, an international market research firm. Zscaler scored ahead of several long-standing security vendors on key metrics like price to performance ratio, service and support, and financial stability.

This research was conducted in July 2009 and was not limited to web SaaS security but covered all segments of SaaS security. In aided brand awareness for SaaS security, Zscaler ranks ahead of Cisco, Symantec, Google, Trendmicro and Websense. According to Infonetics research customers are clearly responding to the availability of services, financial pressure, and the need to improve the overall performance of their security deployments by evaluating, purchasing, and deploying SaaS for security.

“Strong execution, great price/performance and purpose-built Web SaaS security technology has led to strong brand awareness for Zscaler in a very short time,” said Jeff Wilson, Principal Analyst, Network Security at Infonetics. “When new markets emerge, new innovative entrants often have an opportunity to leap frog bigger established players who are hampered by their legacy solutions. Zscaler is on their way to being a marquee name in SaaS security.”

Here are some other key findings of the research:

SaaS leads to stronger security deployments overall, and for 81% of respondents, that’s a key driver for moving to SaaS.
Over 75% of the respondents were planning to use SaaS security to augment, not replace existing solutions. With so many decision makers looking to add a new layer of security flexibility of features becomes very important.
In June 2009, Infonetics sized the security SaaS market at $381M worldwide in 2008, growing 68% to $641M in 2009, and then growing another 61% to just over $1B in 2010. There is a sense of immediacy in the security SaaS market, and the data in this research report supports that.
“Infonetics research validates the strong acceptance that we are seeing from enterprises and service providers,” said Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler. “We are pleased to climb to the top of the ranks in a market dominated by giant networking and security companies. Our secret – building high performance SaaS technology from the ground up rather than taking short-cuts with legacy appliances that are single-tenant and don’t scale.”

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