ThreatX Extends Leading SaaS-Based Web Application Firewall Solution with Enhanced Cyber Threat Detection and Neutralization Capabilities

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June 27, 2018

First Behavior Based Web Application Firewall Solution to Meet Evolving Enterprise Needs; Offloads Burden from Security Teams

Denver, CO, – June 27, 2018 – ThreatX, the leading provider of SaaS-based web application firewall (WAF) solutions, today announced the addition of key capabilities to help global customers confidently and rapidly identify, profile, and intercept a wide range of threats, including DDoS, Bot and zero-day attacks while increasing application performance. Additionally, flexible, cloud-native deployment options mean organizations can deploy and scale ThreatX in hours—compared to the weeks associated with traditional WAF deployments.

Today, security teams are challenged to protect the large attack surfaces presented by complex technology environments from an ever-evolving threat landscape. These teams simply cannot spend time managing multiple security products or be burdened with manual threat analysis if they expect to effectively protect their applications. Available now as part of the ThreatX platform, these new capabilities capitalize on machine learning and attacker profiling to automate the precise detection and neutralization of advanced threats. Now, security personnel can quickly and effectively protect their application environments without the large management overhead associated with disparate products and rule-based WAF solutions.

ThreatX’s enhanced DDoS, Bot Detection and Edge Caching capabilities draw on unique, behavior-based analytics and risk, site and application profiling, as well as attacker fingerprinting to continually detect advanced threats and optimize application performance. Unlike current WAFs, ThreatX now offers a complete solution that is purpose built to reduce false positives across a wide range of evolving threats, freeing up security teams to focus on top risks and security strategy.

New capabilities include:

  • “Attacker Centric” dynamic detection and neutralization capabilities: With enhanced DDoS Mitigation and Bot Detection capabilities now included in its behavior-based attack profiling, ThreatX can detect and neutralize with high precision layer 7 attacks, OWASP top threats, Bots, DDoS, and zero-day attacks. ThreatX also features new site and application profiling to help companies block many key exploits of attacks, long before they become an issue.
  • Container based, native-cloud and SaaS deployment: With continuous innovation in cloud-native and on-premises deployment capabilities, ThreatX customers can now deploy sensors in minutes via SaaS, or Docker native containers in public or private clouds. Once deployed, ThreatX can begin accurately blocking attacks in a matter of hours, providing total coverage and visibility across all web and cloud applications, APIs, and microservices.
  • Advanced Edge Caching and site performance tuning: With new static and dynamic resource caching, image optimization, inlining and manual cache purging, ThreatX’s latest release addresses customer impacting performance issues prevalent in slower, back-end applications and content-heavy web properties.
  • ThreatX Labs operations center: With its new Colorado location, ThreatX Labs extends security team capabilities with proactive identification of target vulnerabilities, and 24×7, expert responses to high-risk events, freeing customers to focus on their core business with the confidence that their application security is addressed.

QUOTES

“In today’s dynamic threat environment, security teams struggle to put together a comprehensive web application security approach, often deploying several standalone products that simply can’t provide a holistic view into vulnerabilities and threats. We believe that by combining these new capabilities with our proven behavior-based, next-gen WAF, we are helping our customers take a huge leap forward in how they deploy and manage their web application security. Now any organization can take advantage of a truly integrated solution that detects and neutralizes all types of web application attacks before they can materially impact the business.”

Bret Settle, CEO ThreatX

“A behavior-based approach to security was very compelling for us. Threat interactions are monitored, and ThreatX enables us to automatically identify and block potentially malicious and suspicious behavior. We don’t have to specify the conditions or rules like we would in any other web application firewall because the ThreatX solution continuously learns from what it observes.”

Joel Bruesch, Senior Director of Information Security, BMC Software

“Legacy WAF’s have a history of complexity and false positives, which often means they are not deployed widely enough, leaving application portfolios exposed and placing large burdens on security teams. To address these challenges, ThreatX offers new capabilities and a truly next-generation approach to WAFs, with rapid and adaptable cloud deployment options and dynamic defense capabilities to address a wide range of threats. With ThreatX, security teams no longer have to rely on static rule sets and reactive analysis and can now extend protection to an entire portfolio of web applications.”

Michael Suby, Stratecast VP of Research at Frost & Sullivan


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ABOUT THREATX

ThreatX is the only SaaS-based web application firewall (WAF) solution that enables enterprises to confidently secure all their web applications against a rapidly evolving threat landscape.​ Purpose built for the hybrid-cloud, ThreatX delivers complete visibility and the most precise threat detection and neutralization capabilities available by combining progressive behavior profiling, collective threat intelligence, and deep analytics with a managed service. ThreatX eliminates the false positives and maintenance burdens associated with 1st generation WAFs and static, rule-based solutions.

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