Closest Thing to a Silver Bullet for Security Managers

SecureSphere Wins another WAF shoot out

What a great start for my first blog post with our new blogging system. Information security magazine published a review of six (6) web application firewall products. Beside winning this shoot-out review and scoring top marks in each category: ease of installation and configuration; administration; depth of security policy control; monitoring, alerting, auditing and reporting; and overall security effectiveness. SecureSphere received a rare compliment. The magazine names it "The closet thing to a silver bullet". Anyone in the security industry will tell you that "there is no silver bullet". I tend to agree. No product is perfect and its effectiveness is based on the defined policies and how well it's being integrated into the network, and more important the business process. SecureSphere is not different in that sense, however, its administrative interface, security capabilities, multiple deployment options and depth of policy control makes it unique and different. The metaphor of the silver bullet applies to any straightforward solution perceived to have extreme effectiveness, and when we're thinking about it, SecureSphere is indeed the closest thing to a silver bullet for application security and compliance: it was designed, engineered and built to solve application security problems.

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