London, UK: AppRiver, LLC has announced its latest version of SecureSurf™, a multi-layered adaptive solution to defend against existing and emerging Web-based threats. This version of SecureSurf also features a new Critical Threat Notification capability that serves as an early warning system for network administrators.
SecureSurf’s multi-layered cloud solution combines proactive features such as firewalls, intrusion detection, anomaly alerting, log analysis, malware forensics and virus intelligence data. Recently, only large companies could afford to implement and maintain comprehensive solutions, but SecureSurf delivers advanced Web security to businesses of all sizes.
“Unfortunately for online users today, it’s no longer a question of if you will encounter Web-based malware, but when,” explained Joel Smith, CTO, AppRiver. “Our SecureSurf solution was built to put businesses at ease. It’s secure, reliable and delivers the protection a business needs without the complexity and costs often associated with enterprise-grade IT security.”
As a cloud service, SecureSurf can stand alone or work in tandem with AppRiver secure messaging products. Either way, every customer benefits from the company’s global threat intelligence.
“By combining our own file, message, Web and network threat intelligence with industry data we are effectively identifying network threats and vulnerabilities in order to minimize the threat attack window, or the amount of time an adversary is in the network before they are discovered,” said Smith.
Timely notification and information about cyber intrusion is critical for IT administrators, he adds. “As cyber-attacks increase in sophistication, many organizations react too late after an attack is underway.”
SecureSurf’s new Critical Threat Notifications are instantly delivered to administrators, detecting and flagging traffic that could indicate a network has been compromised. This new functionality helps ensure threats are mitigated immediately.
“It’s easy to register the IP addresses and domains we wish to monitor,” said Jessica Johnson, technical support engineer, Zumasys. “Once registration is complete, I trust AppRiver to send alert notifications if and when it detects a clear indication of a system compromise.”
