Free HTTP(s) Load Balancer and Web Application Firewall From Danish Armorlogic

rsholm, Denmark) October 30, 2007 Armorlogic, the Danish web applicationfirewall provider, announces free version of Profense an automated webapplication firewall with built in http(s) load balancing. And there is no catch. Free means free for commercial as well as non-commercial use,without time limitation. Profense Base offers the same filtering, load balancingand compression features as the paid version Profense Professional. The onlydifferences are the added features and the support options available.Both versions offer an HTTP & HTTPS Load balancer with session persistence and awhite-list based web application firewall. They protect the web site by determiningallowable requests and inputs and disallowing everything else. This approachprovides protection against zero day attacks, simply because they are not in thewhite-list and thus are disallowed. The access policy is automatically built bylearning from traffic to and from the web site. The resulting policy describesacceptable use of the web site and includes positive validation patterns for webapplication input parameters. Positive input validation effectively prevent attackstargeting web applications like SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting.Customers looking for features like active/active clustering ("self loadbalancing"), automated cluster synchronization and automated push backup mayconsider upgrading to the Professional version which is competitively priced at 5,000 for a cluster license including the first year of support.With the free version is included the Limited support package. Customers runningProfense Base with limited support have to download and re-install Profense whenan updated version is available. Also the Limited support package does not includeprioritized support.To get the reasurrance of prioritized incident response and the convenience of nothaving to re-install when updates are available customers can upgrade their supportpackage to get prioritized support and automated inline updates.Unlike most competing alternatives Profense is a software appliance. It includes ahardened OS and installs on most standard hardware, including virtual platforms. Amajor advantage of the software appliance model is that it offers lower cost ofdisaster preparedness and recovery. If disaster strikes all that is needed torestore Profense is a backup and a piece of general purpose server hardware. Forcompetitors appliance based solutions a new expensive specialized piece of hardwarehave to be procured or kept standby off-site.The free version of Profense enters a market where automated web applicationfirewalls are priced at 20,000 and up for one unit. To ensure uninterruptedavailability web application firewalls are typically run in clusters of two. Theprice of a Profense Base cluster is the price of the server hardware less than 2,000 per node. To run the run the cluster in automatically synchronizedactive/active mode a Profense Professional license is needed. Including hardwareand support the cost will be less than 10,000.The flipside of the coin is that Profense is not delivered as a shrink-wrappedappliance ready for deployment. Customers have to procure a piece of serverhardware, download an iso-image, burn a cd and install the software. With the serverhardware ready this process takes less than 1 hour.ISO images and software licenses are available from https://www.armorlogic.com.Mor e information about the free load balancer and web spplication firewall athttps://www.armorlogic.com/p rofense_profense_base.html.Pre ss release distribution by PressReleasePoint(http://www.p ressreleasepoint.com/)About Armorlogic:Armorlogic ApS is a Danish software development company focused entirely on webapplication security. The company is founded in early 2005 by Srebrenko Sehic andJakob Frydendal Gercke who prior to founding Armorlogic were both internet securityspecialists in Big 4 consulting.Contact:Jakob Frydendal Gercke, CEOArmorlogic,Agern Allé 3DK-2970 HørsholmDenmarke-mail: jgercke@armorlogic.comPhone:+4 5 6088 0500 /+45 7027 7732Website: http://www.armorlogic.com/

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