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News - January 2006

Webscreen adds new products to its portfolio to bolster company security

Building on the success of its UK re-launch, leading IT security provider Webscreen Technology has added two new products to its portfolio, the WS3000 and WS5000. Webscreen already protects over 5 million web sites, and is now being adopted across many diverse verticle sectors. From government to online gaming Webscreen is proving its worth every minute of every day

The WS3000 has been designed to provide improved speed and redundancy. Within a 2U Intel appliance, it includes dual Xeon 3.8GHz processors, dual power, RAID array and 8GB of memory. Designed to improve speed and monitoring capacity it is ideal for the larger enterprises or mid-tier ISPs, and can monitor up to 55 million client IP addresses.

The WS5000 is specifically designed for the carrier network and comes with 10Gb/s optical network presentation.  It has all of the redundancy features available in the WS3000, but has the ability to monitor significantly more users and servers.  It can monitor up to 88 million IP addresses.

Robin Hill, Vice President Sales, Webscreen Technology comments: "Webscreen is further demonstrating its commitment to the ISP and data centre market. The improved speed and monitoring capability offered by the new WS3000 and WS5000 is testament to this. Without question, organisations that have to guarantee the integrity of service, like ISP's and system integrators, are our target market and we are 100% committed to growing our market share in these sectors through innovation and strong partnerships."

Subscription Pricing

To coincide with the new product launch Webscreen have also released a new subscription based pricing model. The new pricing strategy is designed to make it easier for organisations to adopt the technology, by reducing the initial capital outlay. Organisations can now start by only protecting one critical server for example and then grow the license inline with business demand.

Deborah Collins, Sales & Marketing Director DXI Networks comments: "The new subscription pricing has helped DXI adopt Webscreen which has in turn enabled the business to truly differentiate its value proposition. DXI is aggressively growing its own market share through innovative services and Webscreen is playing a major role"

The Webscreen suite of products protects the integrity of an online infrastructure by monitoring all incoming traffic and scoring each user with its multiphase packet inspection engine, known as CHARM. This makes use of an anomaly based heuristic algorithm to prevent outages and reduced service due to network layer events.

The patented CHARM technology creates a measure of how much Webscreen trusts a packet. If a packet has a high CHARM score, Webscreen is more likely to let it pass through. The moment site performance drops below a pre-defined threshold, Webscreen drops the malicious traffic while allowing the legitimate traffic to pass unabated.

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.