As the popular saying goes; the best defense is a good offense, so too can it be applied to computer security. To safely secure a computer network a passive firewall is no longer enough. Hackers have learned and adapted their tactics to bypass firewalls and antivirus software. What is needed to defend your computer network is an active and intelligent monitor and defender. Closing off a network to internet can cause companies to lose sales and lead generation on top of which can hamper office productivity.

Before 1999 hackers would work in groups to attack specific targets with flood attacks and shut them down by overwhelming their computers and servers with garbage data. To perform attacks like this required sophisticated coordination and communication, which was difficult because hackers strongly protect their privacy. In 1999, that all changed because a single hacker was able to write software which allowed him to control a flood attack all by himself.

Defense Pro by Radware is the essential piece of hardware to protect against flood and denial of service attacks. Defense Pro is an intelligent tool that constantly monitors and analyzes data packets before they reach your network and servers. Defense Pro's ability to analyze data assures that networks will continue to function even when under attack. Intelligent analysis means that Defense Pro can tell which data entering is important and which data is garbage data. Defense Pro also acts a switch controlling your bandwidth for maximum optimization. By dynamically controlling bandwidth, Defense Pro proactively isolates attack impact to prevent spread to users and applications, while ensuring wire speed forwarding of all secure traffic.

Defense Pro is so much more than a defender of networks. Defense Pro takes an active role in network security and optimization. Defense Pro does all of this with out slowing down the network, in fact Defense Pro built in switch will speed up and optimize your network usage. Do not sit on the sidelines waiting for an attack to happen, go get in the game.

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