So, in an attempt to overcome coffee deprivation, I am trying to read some trade rags. Here's what I dug up similar to what my colleague, Sharon, posted recently: "This Year's Data Breaches Surpass 2007 Totals". We are now "ahead" of 2007 numbers now. So, sort of like the opposite of "tax freedom day," we are now moving the date back for how quickly we hit last year's numbers. Despite that, I take that as a good sign as I expect that while the number of breaches is increasing, people are becoming more aware and are starting to report it as well (voluntarily or involuntarily). There is definitely light at the end of the tunnel, and, no, it is not that of an oncoming train :-)
Rohit Gupta: August 2008 Archives
Imperva launched its technology
partner ecosystem called OpenSphere almost
a year ago and one of the founding members is Crossbeam Systems. What follows is
a blog posting from Sanjay Raja, Sr. Product Line Manager at Crossbeam. This is
the first such posting from our partners and I hope to follow-up with many more
value additions that are being developed as a part of
OpenSphere.
-Rohit Gupta, VP Business
Development, Imperva.
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The reality of most large enterprises is that they need to support specialized classes of security applications on their networks to comply with regulations and protect against evolving threats. Often these security apps must be integrated within a layered security architecture. Imperva's SecureSphere's application data security products are a perfect complement to existing Firewall and IPS technologies as they protect enterprise business data from the database, through the application.
The problem today is that companies
are challenged to manage this growing sprawl of mission-critical security apps
and associated security infrastructure without sacrificing the performance to
ensure non-stop availability.
In the real-world - enterprises have
to do extensive testing to make sure the mix of security applications they want
to run are going to interoperate and work at the performance levels they
demand.
This is where Crossbeam's iBeam program has become so critical - because it is
extremely time-consuming and manual for customers to properly deploy, test or
add new applications to their networks. They have to get these deployments
staged and qualified, while addressing the complex and unpredictable scenarios
that can arise during testing.
The iBeam program essentially takes
Crossbeam's years of experience deploying best-of-breed security applications
deep within carrier-class networks - and automates it. The result is that
customers can leverage the network-virtualization and application-consolidation
benefits of Crossbeam's Next Generation Security Platform to deploy the
applications of their choice (such as SecureSphere) and scale them as
needed.
iBeam mimics the complexity of these
networks and runs a battery of interoperability tests and performance traffic
through various permutations to ensure the success of security apps in every
possible scenario. Ultimately, the goal is to let leaders like Imperva excel at
delivering the best in security, while Crossbeam delivers the high-performance
platform that enables enterprises to deploy and intelligently virtualize the
security apps of their choice to meet the growing demands of
business.
We give our ISV partners the tools to integrate, test and self-certify their apps on Crossbeam so they can control to anticipate the unpredictability of customer environments. The result is a frictionless partnering environment with ISV partners so that customers can deploy the combined solution with a high degree of confidence.
- Sanjay
Raja, Sr. Product Line Manager at Crossbeam
