Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform

IBM Proventia® Virtualized Network Security Platform from IBM Internet Security Systems™ (ISS) offers advanced preemptive protection in a virtual security appliance to help you achieve maximum business continuity using minimal resources. Powered by the IBM ISS X-Force® research and development team, IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform operates on virtual platforms to help protect both your physical and virtual networks with the same high level of security.

As a virtual appliance, IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform provides the ideal solution for managed cloud service providers by enabling flexible deployments in multi-tenant virtual environments. A single management console and a broad range of consulting services help simplify the complexity of deploying and managing security operations, while its modular architecture provides extensible protection to help ensure you’re ready for the next big threat—whenever and wherever it may occur.

Highlights

• Reduces costly appliance sprawl and boosts consolidation efforts with a virtual platform for security convergence
• Extends the same robust intrusion prevention for virtual networks that you expect from traditional networks
• Eases security and compliance efforts by helping to detect and block network attacks, and unauthorized network access
• Enables cloud computing service providers to deliver segmented security services in multi-tenant virtual environments
• Integrates virtualized security with traditional network protection for overall reduced complexity of security operations

Staying ahead of evolving threats and compliance measures

IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform relies on cutting-edge Protocol Analysis Module (PAM) technology, which is designed by X-Force to offer a robust, extensible protection engine that adds new areas of protection as threats evolve. With the full power of PAM technology, IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform is a complete network protection solution that includes:

• Virtual Patch® – Shielding a vulnerability from exploitation independent of a software patch
• Threat Detection & Prevention – Advanced intrusion prevention including DNS protection
• Proventia Content Analysis – Monitors and identifies unencrypted personally identifiable information (PII) and other confidential data
• Proventia Web application security – Protection for web apps, Web 2.0, databases (same protection as web application firewall)
• Network Policy Enforcement – Reclaim bandwidth & block Skype, peer-to-peer networks, tunneling

By consolidating security demands, such as threat detection and prevention, data loss protection, Web application protection and network policy enforcement, IBM Proventia Virtualized Network Security Platform helps reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining point solutions.

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