Radware Offers Multichannel Retailers Best Practices for Cyber Monday
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Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:35:01 AM
Radware Offers Multichannel Retailers Best Practices for Cyber Monday
Preventing network downtime and cybercrime are keys for businesses to ensure a safe, profitable online shopping season
MAHWAH, N.J., Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- With Cyber Monday just three weeks away, multichannel retailers must prepare e-commerce channels for potential network strain and targeted cybercrime during the busiest online shopping day of the year. Radware(Nasdaq: RDWR), a leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, advises businesses to strengthen networks with advanced application delivery, load balancing and network security measures in order to ensure a profitable, safe online experience.
According to the National Retail Federation® (NRF) and Shop.org, 96.5 million Americans shopped online during Cyber Monday 2009. NRF also reported the 2010 holiday shopping season will see 45.0 percent of young adults (ages 18-24) using smartphones to research or make holiday purchases. These statistics represent unique opportunities for hackers to target the growing number of mobile device users and leverage new financial crimeware tools to unleash malicious botnet attacks on e-commerce websites. Similar to the July 2009 cyber attacks that devastated various sites in the U.S. and South Korea, these types of assaults on Cyber Monday could result in significant network downtime and revenue loss that businesses cannot afford.
"Businesses will encounter many network challenges throughout the holiday season that are sure to test both the capacity and security of their websites," said Amir Peles, Chief Technology Officer, Radware. "To deliver the highest quality of experience (QoE), retailers need to be cognizant of threats and be prepared ahead of time with additional load balancing and security measures in order to counter these potential risks."
To ensure network uptime and performance while keeping assets and customer information secure, Radware recommends businesses leverage the following tools:
-- Multi-layered Security Approaches - To ensure that mission-critical
applications perform under any circumstance, it's necessary for
e-retailers to deploy an all-in-one, multi-layered offering, which
provides a complete network security solution. This approach helps
safeguard the network with the use of an Intrusion Prevention System
(IPS), Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection and Network Behavioral
Analysis (NBA). In addition, multi-layered approaches should include
reputation engines that offer real-time anti-Trojan and anti-Phishing
services that fight against financial fraud, information theft and
malware spread. The full result is real-time attack prevention that
defends the network against known, emerging and zero-minute threats.
-- Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with Acceleration and Performance
Features - ADCs must be able to intelligently redirect traffic to
designated servers that spread traffic load throughout the data center
application or Web server while addressing network capacity growth. It
should also offer SSL offloading, TCP multiplexing, TCP optimization,
caching, compression and more to increase response time and deliver
better QoE.
-- Scalable application infrastructure - having a solution that can scale
on demand without any downtime is especially key for businesses
throughout the holiday season. This tool allows e-retailers to scale
performance levels based on real traffic growth and business needs, all
without replacing the supporting hardware platform, while providing the
service.
-- Monitoring and Tracking of traffic and operations - One of the most
important features of safeguarding a network is by leveraging devices
that continuously offer traffic monitoring, detection, risk assessment
and attack signature creation for threat mitigation. These features aid
the network in blocking cyber attacks and insider threats without
stopping legitimate user traffic.
For more information on Radware's application delivery and security solutions, please visit:
AppDirector:http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/AppDirector/default.aspx
DefensePro:http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/DefensePro.aspx
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), a global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute®, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of application delivery and network security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart". For more information, please visit http://www.radware.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching or Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or Network Security products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.
Press Relations:
Joyce Anne Shulman
+1 201 785 3209
joyceannes@radware.com
SOURCE Radware Ltd
Radware Ltd
CONTACT: Joyce Anne Shulman, +1-201-785-3209, or joyceannes@radware.com
Web Site: http://www.radware.com
Preventing network downtime and cybercrime are keys for businesses to ensure a safe, profitable online shopping season
MAHWAH, N.J., Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- With Cyber Monday just three weeks away, multichannel retailers must prepare e-commerce channels for potential network strain and targeted cybercrime during the busiest online shopping day of the year. Radware(Nasdaq: RDWR), a leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, advises businesses to strengthen networks with advanced application delivery, load balancing and network security measures in order to ensure a profitable, safe online experience.
According to the National Retail Federation® (NRF) and Shop.org, 96.5 million Americans shopped online during Cyber Monday 2009. NRF also reported the 2010 holiday shopping season will see 45.0 percent of young adults (ages 18-24) using smartphones to research or make holiday purchases. These statistics represent unique opportunities for hackers to target the growing number of mobile device users and leverage new financial crimeware tools to unleash malicious botnet attacks on e-commerce websites. Similar to the July 2009 cyber attacks that devastated various sites in the U.S. and South Korea, these types of assaults on Cyber Monday could result in significant network downtime and revenue loss that businesses cannot afford.
"Businesses will encounter many network challenges throughout the holiday season that are sure to test both the capacity and security of their websites," said Amir Peles, Chief Technology Officer, Radware. "To deliver the highest quality of experience (QoE), retailers need to be cognizant of threats and be prepared ahead of time with additional load balancing and security measures in order to counter these potential risks."
To ensure network uptime and performance while keeping assets and customer information secure, Radware recommends businesses leverage the following tools:
-- Multi-layered Security Approaches - To ensure that mission-critical
applications perform under any circumstance, it's necessary for
e-retailers to deploy an all-in-one, multi-layered offering, which
provides a complete network security solution. This approach helps
safeguard the network with the use of an Intrusion Prevention System
(IPS), Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection and Network Behavioral
Analysis (NBA). In addition, multi-layered approaches should include
reputation engines that offer real-time anti-Trojan and anti-Phishing
services that fight against financial fraud, information theft and
malware spread. The full result is real-time attack prevention that
defends the network against known, emerging and zero-minute threats.
-- Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with Acceleration and Performance
Features - ADCs must be able to intelligently redirect traffic to
designated servers that spread traffic load throughout the data center
application or Web server while addressing network capacity growth. It
should also offer SSL offloading, TCP multiplexing, TCP optimization,
caching, compression and more to increase response time and deliver
better QoE.
-- Scalable application infrastructure - having a solution that can scale
on demand without any downtime is especially key for businesses
throughout the holiday season. This tool allows e-retailers to scale
performance levels based on real traffic growth and business needs, all
without replacing the supporting hardware platform, while providing the
service.
-- Monitoring and Tracking of traffic and operations - One of the most
important features of safeguarding a network is by leveraging devices
that continuously offer traffic monitoring, detection, risk assessment
and attack signature creation for threat mitigation. These features aid
the network in blocking cyber attacks and insider threats without
stopping legitimate user traffic.
For more information on Radware's application delivery and security solutions, please visit:
AppDirector:http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationDelivery/AppDirector/default.aspx
DefensePro:http://www.radware.com/Products/ApplicationNetworkSecurity/DefensePro.aspx
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), a global leader in integrated application delivery solutions, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute®, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of application delivery and network security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart". For more information, please visit http://www.radware.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Application Switching or Network Security industry, changes in demand for Application Switching or Network Security products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware's Form 20-F.
Press Relations:
Joyce Anne Shulman
+1 201 785 3209
joyceannes@radware.com
SOURCE Radware Ltd
Radware Ltd
CONTACT: Joyce Anne Shulman, +1-201-785-3209, or joyceannes@radware.com
Web Site: http://www.radware.com