ATLANTA - March 15, 2006 - Reflex Security, a pioneer in network intrusion prevention, today announced Reflex VSA, the industry's first virtual security appliance for virtualized environments. Reflex VSA allows enterprises deploying virtual computing technology to secure virtualized networks with firewall protection and intrusion prevention.
The patent-pending technology fills the security void left by traditional network security solutions that reside outside of the virtual infrastructure and are not fully capable of detecting and protecting against breaches inside virtualized resources.
Virtualization Requires Security on the Inside
According to estimates by IDC, 75% of all companies with 500+ employees are currently adopting virtualization technology to reduce server proliferation, increase utilization, and simplify IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, virtualized server configurations also create incremental security challenges not addressed by conventional security products.
While virtualization technology can give virtual machines a logical partition level comparable to the 'air gap' separation between physical machines, breaches in the software-defined barrier can still occur from threats originating external to or from within the host machine, leaving all virtualized applications and networks exposed and unprotected. This can lead to the spread of viruses, denial of service (DoS) attacks, and regulatory compliance conflicts within the virtualized environment and between virtual machines.
"Security layers in a virtualized network should be no different than in a real network, with protection required on the internal network as well as the perimeter." said Hezi Moore, Reflex Security CTO. "The virtualized environment becomes the new internal network. Threats can only be detected and mitigated by security inspection residing inside the virtualized environment and on the virtualized network."
Reflex VSA Empowers Enterprises to Unlock the Potential of Virtualization
Reflex VSA creates a virtualized network security appliance that operates within a virtual network and replicates the operational attributes and interfaces of a physical network security appliance, while supporting the Reflex Security software applications.
"Because Reflex VSA leverages the industry leading IPS technology of Reflex Security's ThreatIQ suite, enterprises can be assured of all the benefits that a Reflex solution has to offer," said Jim Watson, CEO of Reflex Security. "This provides network managers peace of mind that they can deploy virtualization technology, reap the cost and efficiency benefits and not relax their security posture while doing it."
Features available in the Reflex VSA include:
* Access firewall, providing permission policy enforcement for intra-host and external network communication * Intrusion Prevention via deep packet inspection and inline blocking/filtering for virtualized networks * Anomaly, signature, and rate-based threat detection capability to defend against DoS attacks, flood attacks, malicious content, viruses, etc. * Network Discovery to quietly discover and map all virtual machines and applications running in the virtualized environment * Network Defender, allowing the ability to remove a virtual machine from a network by communicating with a virtual switch and blocking the port * Reflex Command Center, providing a centralized configuration and management console, comprehensive reporting tools, and real-time event aggregation and correlation
The Reflex VSA will initially support the VMware ESX server (VMware is a division of EMC Corporation). Trial copies can be requested at http://www.reflexsecurity.com/vsademo/
About Reflex Security, Inc. Reflex Security, Inc., a pioneer in network intrusion prevention, redefines real-time network intrusion prevention with its ThreatIQTM solution. By unifying discovery, deep-packet inspection and a comprehensive prevention engine, Reflex accurately blocks internal and external security attacks. Powered by SentriumTM solid-state technology, Reflex provides adaptable security, increased reliability and high performance to prevent today's most serious network security threats. Scalable and easy to use, the Reflex IPS provides effortless enterprise security for businesses of all sizes. For more information, visit the Reflex Security web site at http://www.reflexsecurity.com <http://www.reflexsecurity.com/> , call 888-872-7555 or contact any authorized channel partner.
