Nov 10, 2004 : Security Firms Team for Secure Web
📅 - Application security firm Teros (teros.com) announced on Wednesday that it had teamed with a group of security providers at the Computer Security Institute's 31st Annual Security Conference and Exhibition have joined forces to help set more consistent and reliable standards for customers.
Jeff Pancottine, Senior Vice President and GM of the security business unit for F5 Networks, Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, Gene Banman, CEO of NetContinuum and Bob Walters, CEO of Teros have invited Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, McAfee and Symantec to join them in submitting their products to an independent application security evaluation conducted by ICSA Labs, a provider of security product certification.
"With a wide array of security technologies to choose from and a lack of criteria for what constitutes adequate application protection, selecting appropriate solutions to protect the Web-enabled enterprise is daunting," says Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer for Oracle Corp. "Objective, independent standards for evaluating Web application security solutions will make it easier for IT security executives to make better informed purchasing decisions."
"Each of our companies offers architecturally different solutions," said a joint announcement released by the companies, "and we compete with each other in the marketplace. At the same time, we are united regarding the minimum criteria that any security product must meet to provide acceptable protection for mission-critical Web applications. We believe these minimums are not being met by many vendors, despite marketing claims that strongly imply such protection. The result is a false sense of security that exposes consumers and corporations to a higher risk of identity theft and other similar data loss threats. Our goal is to pave the way for minimum standards that will ensure the safety of consumers as well as corporate and government environments on the Web."
Jeff Pancottine, Senior Vice President and GM of the security business unit for F5 Networks, Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, Gene Banman, CEO of NetContinuum and Bob Walters, CEO of Teros have invited Check Point Software Technologies, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, McAfee and Symantec to join them in submitting their products to an independent application security evaluation conducted by ICSA Labs, a provider of security product certification.
"With a wide array of security technologies to choose from and a lack of criteria for what constitutes adequate application protection, selecting appropriate solutions to protect the Web-enabled enterprise is daunting," says Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer for Oracle Corp. "Objective, independent standards for evaluating Web application security solutions will make it easier for IT security executives to make better informed purchasing decisions."
"Each of our companies offers architecturally different solutions," said a joint announcement released by the companies, "and we compete with each other in the marketplace. At the same time, we are united regarding the minimum criteria that any security product must meet to provide acceptable protection for mission-critical Web applications. We believe these minimums are not being met by many vendors, despite marketing claims that strongly imply such protection. The result is a false sense of security that exposes consumers and corporations to a higher risk of identity theft and other similar data loss threats. Our goal is to pave the way for minimum standards that will ensure the safety of consumers as well as corporate and government environments on the Web."
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