June 1, 2012 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
Juniper Networks has announced some major improvements to its Mykonos Web Security Software with 30 new features to increase protection against hacking.
Using Intrusion Deception Technology, the software will stand-up against web-based threats in real time. The network innovation company will look to the enhancements to simplify configuration, and boost scalability to help ensure holistic protection during increases of traffic volumes.
With websites experiencing regular attacks due to a lack of protection, Mykonos Web Security will look counter the malicious assaults in real-time. The software identifies, slows down and then ultimately prevents the attacks through an intelligent scheme which protects critical information.
Priding itself on being “the only system that truly neutralizes threats as they occur” Juniper Networks is looking to transform the security industry and counter hacking through making its time consuming, costly and ultimately frustrating for attackers to try to consume private information.
VP and Genera Managed at Mykonos, David Koretz, spoke of the ever-present threat that exists to websites and how their company’s software acts against the problem. "Web-based threats have become a major concern and companies require a proactive solution with real-time prevention to augment traditional-network security defences,” he said.
“Mykonos is the first company to detect hackers during the reconnaissance phase of an attack. We can track, profile and, most importantly, respond to an attacker before the damage is done."
According to a Ponemon Institute survey, 73% of organizations had experiences hacking at least once over the past two years due to insecure web applications.
Jeff Wilson, a principal analyst at Infonetics Research, supported the technology by saying, "Juniper's Mykonos Web Security solution addresses the critical security issues that enterprises face today,” he stated.
“At a time when buyers are questioning whether their investment in legacy solutions is providing adequate protection from today's threats, Juniper is providing an innovative solution."
Release Highlights
- Enhanced security protections: Mykonos Web Security now detects a wider range of attackers and hacking techniques, protecting against more threats, as well as provides new countermeasures, including:
- Preventing brute-force authentication attacks that rapidly guess combinations of usernames and passwords to gain access to systems. Mykonos Web Security prevents the attacker from using any compromised credentials even if an attacker happens to 'guess' the correct password.
- Defending against directory traversal attempts that are used to map websites to gain additional information on how to attack them.
- Integrating third-party software vulnerability protection into Mykonos Web Security, which helps prevent against known software vulnerabilities typically targeted by automated attack scripts. Mykonos Web Security now integrates a large library of known third-party attack data into its tracking, profiling, and response systems.
- User-friendly and intuitive interface: A simplified interface unifies the security console and configuration, making it easier for customers to manage systems, as well as provides a new setup wizard tool to quickly deploy without assistance from Juniper Networks.
- Greater performance clustering: Mykonos Web Security now supports throughput greater than 1Gb/second by enabling customers to add multiple slaves to a clustering model. In effect, this allows for Mykonos Web Security to protect higher-volume web properties.
- Comprehensive approach to security: The new version of Mykonos Web Security provides a significant new layer of defence against web attacks and builds on the successful SRX and vGW platforms as a key component of Juniper's strategy to deliver a comprehensive and automated approach for data center security.
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