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Profense Automated Web Application Firewall

Web application firewall and HTTP(S) load balancer with acceleration and learning - Free version available

Description

Profense™ is available in two versions: Profense™ Base and Profense™ Professional.

Profense Base features include:
• Positive filtering
• Load balancing with session persistence
• Web acceleration with caching and compression
• Automated learning.

Profense Professional features include:
• Auto mode with instant protection and adaptive learning
• Positive and negative filtering
• Load balancing with session persistence
• Web acceleration with caching and compression
• Automated learning
• Active/active clustering with policy synchronization.

Profense™ Base is free for commercial as well as non-commercial use, without time limitation. Profense™ Base offers the same filtering, load balancing and compression features as the paid version Profense™ Professional. The only differences are the added features and the support options available.

Both versions offer an HTTP & HTTPS Load balancer with session persistence and a white-list based web application firewall. They protect the web site by determining allowable requests and inputs and disallowing everything else. This approach provides protection against zero day attacks, simply because they are not in the white-list and thus are disallowed.

The access policy is automatically built by learning from traffic to and from the web site. The resulting policy describes acceptable use of the web site and includes positive validation patterns for web application input parameters. Positive input validation effectively prevent attacks targeting web applications like SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting.

Customers looking for features like adaptive learning, active/active clustering ("self load balancing"), automated cluster synchronization and automated push backup may consider upgrading to Profense™ Professional.

With the free version is included the Limited support package. Customers running Profense™ Base with limited support have to download and re-install Profense™ when an updated version is available. Also the Limited support package does not include prioritized support.

To get the reasurrance of prioritized incident response and the convenience of not having to re-install when updates are available customers can upgrade their support package to get prioritized support and automated inline updates.

Current version: 2.2.13

Last updated: 03/06/2008

Operating system: OpenBSD 4.1

Applications installed:
Profense Web Application Firewall

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 111 MB
Torrent available: No
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Primary account
Username: admin
Password: admin123

Memory allocated: 256 MB

License: Free and commercial licenses available - http://www.armorlogic.com/profense_feature_availability.html

Submitted by: jgercke


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