Radware DefensePro Delivers Intrusion Prevention to Continental
Airline's Business Partners
Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR) the leading provider of Intelligent
Application Switching (IAS) solutions ensuring the availability,
performance and security of networked applications across the
enterprise announced that Continental Airlines uses Radware's Intrusion Prevention Switch to protect applications
running on the airline's B2B web servers.
Continental offers an array of Web services that provide
operational information such as flight schedules, flight status,
departure and arrival details, and frequent flyer special
services to Continental partners, distributors and other
businesses that rely on real-time information. Continental
Airlines' B2B presence increasingly relies on web-based and
mission critical distributed applications. These are accessed
remotely from partner sites and hosting facilities over wide
area networks. Radware DefensePro protects these applications
from viruses, intrusions, worms, and DoS attacks.
"Radware's Intrusion Prevention solution has been protecting our
B2B sites for over a year, with bi-directional, deep packet
inspection and accelerated signature matching to block hidden
worms, viruses, Trojans and intrusions," said Andrew N. Dana,
Senior Manager of Information Technology at Continental Airlines.
Securing the networked applications running Web services
requires the ability to perform deep packet inspection of
traffic to block attacks in real-time and prevent attacks from
entering the network. By deploying Radware's DefensePro in front
of Continental's B2B sites, it intercepts malicious signatures
and viruses, blocking application attacks at multi-Gigabit
speeds. Identifying and mitigating protocol and traffic
anomalies in real-time, DefensePro prevents DoS/DDoS and SYN
floods, safeguarding against all illicit traffic patterns and
hacking.
"Continental's deployment of DefensePro demonstrates an industry
wide progression towards solutions that provide end-to-end
application delivery and security," said Bob Simpson, VP sales
at Radware. "Continental is a long-standing Radware customer,
and their implementation of our Intrusion Prevention solution
ensures site wide availability and security to their B2B web
servers."
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) is the Global Leader in Intelligent
Application Switching, enabling the full availability, maximum
performance and complete security of all mission critical
networked applications while dramatically cutting operating and
scaling costs.
Radware's integrated Application Security , Application
Infrastructure and End-to-End Connectivity solutions are
deployed by over 2,500 enterprises and carriers worldwide.
Radware offers the broadest product line in the industry meeting
application needs at every critical point across the network
including Web and Application Servers, Firewalls, VPNs, ISP
links, Anti-Virus Gateways and Cache.
Continental Airlines is the world's sixth-largest airline with
more than 3,000 daily departures throughout the Americas, Europe
and Asia. Continental serves 151 domestic and 120 international
destinations -- more than any other airline in the world -- and
nearly 400 additional points are served via SkyTeam alliance
airlines. With 41,000 employees, the airline has hubs serving
New York, Houston, Cleveland and Guam, and carries approximately
51 million passengers per year. In 2004, Continental has earned
awards and critical acclaim for both its operation and its
corporate culture. FORTUNE ranks Continental one of the 100 Best
Companies to Work For in America, an honor it has earned for six
consecutive years, and also ranks Continental as the top airline
in its Most Admired Global Companies in 2004. The carrier won
major awards at the 2004 OAG Airline of the Year Awards
including "Airline of the Year," "Best Airline Based in North
America" and "Best Executive/Business Class."