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As the fourth-largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S., Guardian supplies employee benefit programs to more than 5 million participants. With more than 5,000 employees, approximately 3,000 financial representatives, and nearly 100 agencies nationwide, Guardian requires a security technology strategy that scales across the entire enterprise while providing real-time protection for mission-critical servers and PCs to defend against known and unknown threats including viruses, worms, and zero-day attacks. Sana Security's suite of intrusion prevention products provides Guardian the combination of advanced out-of-the-box and adaptive protection required to defend against these attacks.

"At Guardian, we believe that effective security strategy aligns with business goals and objectives, taking a measured approach to reliability, availability, confidentiality, asset protection, and compliance. We selected Sana Security's products because we believe they provide scalable proactive prevention and response capabilities for our enterprise, while meeting our operational business, cost, and efficiency requirements," said Marc S. Sokol, CISM, CHS-III, Chief Security Officer, Guardian. "Our relationship with Sana Security advances our protection strategy by deploying what we believe to be the most functionally and cost effective security technologies, avoiding excess administrative costs often associated with traditional rule, policy or signature-based security products."

"Intrusion prevention technologies have changed the security market. Intrusion prevention products have been seen rapid and broad adoption in the enterprise," said Greg Young, director, Gartner, Inc. "Security has become an operational function within the enterprise, and products which have an exploit rather than vulnerability focus are superior. Careful product selection protects server applications and PCs without driving IT costs and resources higher."

The combination of out-of-the box protection and adaptive profiling technology continues to address the enterprise need for a high performance, scalable product, and the ability for IT to easily manage the security of its assets.

"In order to attain an effective, in-depth security strategy across the enterprise on a global scale, corporations need to strategically align innovative and proven technologies with the value of their information assets," said Timothy Eades, senior vice president of marketing, Sana Security. "Primary Response(R) and our newest product, Attack Shield WS, are examples of the rapid adoption of host-based intrusion prevention and client protection software designed to meet HIPAA and SEC regulations and provide our customers with the online freedom to conduct their business more productively."

With Sana Adaptive Profiling Technology (SanAPT), Primary Response not only detects and prevents unexpected file and process executions that are determined to be a threat, but also provides granular, out-of-the-box protection against destructive worms. As a single solution across all mission-critical applications, Primary Response protects standard applications such as IIS, Apache and iPlanet web servers, complex applications such as Microsoft Exchange(C), PeopleSoft, SAP and Oracle, and, of greater importance, custom developed applications against known and unknown attacks across the enterprise. Primary Response is centrally managed, designed to operate almost completely independent of IT administration, enabling it to be quickly deployed and configured to effectively scale across hundreds of enterprise servers with unmatched manageability and performance.

The introduction of the Attack Shield family of innate defense modules significantly expands Sana's security portfolio to include built-in client endpoint security, while leveraging core technology components that Primary Response server customers rely on today. With Attack Shield products real-time, out-of-the-box protection from targeted attacks is a reality -- no signatures are required and updates are a thing of the past. Instantly upon software installation, Attack Shield Worm Suppression (WS) protects systems from known and unknown network worm attacks that target core Windows services. Not only is the product easy to use, but it also complements existing antivirus solutions by protecting systems against worms that bypass traditional processes. Providing this additional layer of security delivers immediate value to organizations by ensuring business continuity and reduced operational costs, while enabling simple, secure computing in Internet-connected businesses and government entities worldwide.