DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Threat X, 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 Threat X 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 Threat X 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.
Threat X’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, Threat X 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, Threat X can detect and neutralize with high precision layer 7 attacks, OWASP top threats, Bots, DDoS, and zero-day attacks. Threat X 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-premise deployment capabilities, Threat X customers can now deploy sensors in minutes via SaaS, or Docker native containers in public or private clouds. Once deployed, Threat X 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, Threat X’s latest release addresses customer impacting performance issues prevalent in slower, back-end applications and content-heavy web properties.
- Threat X Labs operations center: With its new Colorado location, Threat X Labs extends security team capabilities with proactive identification of target vulnerabilities, and 24x7, expert responses to high-risk events, freeing customers to focus on their core business with the confidence that their application security is addressed.
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“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 Threat X
“A behavior-based approach to security was very compelling for us.
Threat interactions are monitored, and Threat X 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 Threat X 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, Threat X 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 Threat X, 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 Threat X
Threat X 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, Threat X 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. Threat X eliminates the false positives and maintenance
burdens associated with 1st generation WAFs and static, rule-based
solutions.
