| NSS Labs Extends Third Brigade's PCI Suitability Rating |
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NSS
Labs Extends Third Brigade’s PCI Suitability Rating to Include Linux, Solaris
and Windows Servers
Third
Brigade Deep Security Strengthens Server Security For Retail Storefronts
Ottawa, ON and
Reston, VA – September 2, 2008 – Third
Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com), a
security software company specializing in host intrusion detection and
prevention systems (IDS/IPS),
today announced that NSS Labs, a world
leader in independent security product testing and certification, has extended its
PCI Suitability validation of Third Brigade Deep Security to include protection
of Linux, Solaris and Windows-based servers. The evaluations concluded that
Third Brigade Deep Security delivers an excellent level of protection, blocking
100% of live attacker initiated exploits attempted on numerous operating
systems and applications across these three server platforms.
“Deep
Security should be on any short list as a candidate for deployment in the corporate
perimeter, e-commerce datacenter, internal datacenter, or on back-end servers
in large retail storefront environments,” said Rick Moy, President of NSS Labs.
“This powerful and flexible tool excelled throughout our comprehensive testing
in our real-world test lab.”
“Large
retailers are looking for ways to simplify their security requirements,
particularly at the storefront where hardware solutions are just too costly to
deploy,” said Wael Mohamed, President and CEO, Third Brigade. “NSS Labs has
validated that Deep Security delivers unmatched security to payment card
environments, across more server platforms,
making Third Brigade an even more attractive and cost-effective alternative for
storefront server protection.”
The
NSS Labs PCI Suitability reports provide empirically validated evidence about a
product’s suitability for use in a payment card network. NSS Labs performed
rigorous and comprehensive testing of Third Brigade Deep Security to verify the ability of the software
to mitigate unauthorized system activities including: network exploits
targeting vulnerable services, localized privilege escalation / “root kits”,
unauthorized access to internal operating system resources, and modifications
to key operating system files and configuration data; while processing
legitimate applications and servicing legitimate network requests.
Third
Brigade is the first host intrusion prevention system to complete NSS Labs’ suitability
testing for use in merchant environments across the following server platforms:
·
Sun
Microsystems Solaris™ v8, v9 (Sparc) and Solaris™ 10 (x86)
·
Red
Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server v3, v4, and v5, (32-bit)
·
SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server v9 and v10
·
Microsoft®
Windows® Server 2003
The
final reports (one per platform) are available at: http://nsslabs.com/pci-suitability/index.php |
