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News - September 2005

Webscreen Technology under new ownership

Announcing their takeover of Webscreen Technology, the new board of directors today pledged to make Webscreen the most effective network integrity appliance on the market - and the world's most powerful defence against malicious DDoS attacks.

The experienced management team is led by Robin Hill who is responsible for taking the sales and marketing strategy forward. Webscreen currently protects some of the worlds most high profile mission critical web sites. Webscreen's reach transcends many market sectors but is more commonly found protecting online retailers, payment service providers, web hosting companies, internet service providers, and public sector organisations.

"It is exciting to be in control of the manufacture and distribution of such a critical network component. With a mature customer list already in place, we have an excellent platform to build on and we are confident that Webscreen is the most effective way for organisations to protect their online assets." Said Robin Hill, Vice President, Sales. "Since taking over the business, we have put significant resource into product development and the next version release is set to further strengthen our proposition to the enterprise and ISP sector.

Webscreen protects the integrity of an online infrastructure by monitoring all incoming traffic and scoring each user with its unique CHARM algorithm. CHARM concentrates on matching patterns of behaviour against its behaviour table. In an attack scenario, Webscreen will always prioritise the best-behaved users over the least well- behaved.

Unlike competitor products, Webscreen does not use signature technology making it incredibly effective at mitigating unknown 'Day Zero' exploits. Furthermore, due to Webscreen's architecture it is elegantly simple to install and provides a very low management overhead.

Customers including Circuit City, About.com and Tower Records are already benefiting from using Webscreen to protect their online revenues against DDoS attacks.

"Many of our customers use Webscreen as the first line of defence within a layered security architecture. It is widely recognised that a multi vendor, multi operating system approach is far more robust than a single device. T he Webscreen customer supports this philosophy over an all in one, 'wonder box' type approach," continued Hill.

Over the next twelve months Webscreen is looking to grow its market share via its relationships with systems integrators, resellers and other channel partners.

Ian McMullen (Technical Director Boxing Orange Ltd.) said: "We have witnessed Webscreen's effectiveness many times and it is clearly a proven technology. Based on the current market and with our managed service we hope to increase our Webscreen sales by 65% over the next fiscal year. Robin understands how important it is to be able to offer reliable and effective solutions to our customers and Webscreen delivers on all counts. We are confident that we will continue to work closely to take our Webscreen service to market."