As threats continue to increase in both magnitude and ‘mal-itude’, traditional reactive approaches are consuming the energy and resources of the enterprise security organization, without success. Weakened strategy, rising help desk calls, and lost productivity are tough to defend in the CEO’s office, particularly as the organization’s IT security budget creeps upward.

Join us to learn why the broad adoption of Web 2.0 technologies leads us to the need for proactive (trust-centric) vs. reactive (threat-centric) solutions. During this presentation, we will discuss:

• Effective security policy definition
• Reducing endpoint security complexity
• Prevention of unauthorized applications execution
• Integrating the best of both blacklisting and whitelisting
• Reducing operational costs associated with endpoint management

Join us to learn more about a key new security that has “turned a corner and is coming out of the “trough of disillusionment” on the Gartner hype cycle ‘’, according to Neil MacDonald, Gartner VP and Fellow - http://blogs.gartner.com/neil_macdonald/2010/05/11/application-control-whitelisting-interest-is-growing-rapidly/

Not only are web applications vulnerable to attack, they are attractive targets for hackers because they often have direct connectivity with one or more databases containing sensitive customer and company information. Protecting these applications with solutions that simply inspect application traffic to identify known attack signatures is insufficient. Threats against web applications are often devised specifically for a target application, making threat identification by network-level security devices (e.g., intrusion protection systems and network firewalls) impossible—leaving web applications exposed to a myriad of known and zero-day exploits. NetScaler Application Firewall comprehensively addresses the challenge of delivering centralized application- layer security for all web applications and web services.

Citrix NetScaler Application Firewall is a comprehensive ICSA certified web application security solution that blocks known and unknown attacks against web and web services applications. NetScaler Application Firewall enforces a positive security model that permits only correct application behavior, without relying on attack signatures. It analyzes all bi-directional traffic, including SSL-encrypted communication, to protect against a broad range of security threats without any modification to applications. It is also a leading ADC solution capable of providing over 12 Gbps of application security throughput to meet the needs of even the largest networks today.