Automated blocking at the network level: New automated blocking at the network level makes it harder for attackers to identify vulnerabilities at the application level. The new network blocking features extends protection beyond the standard denial of service (DoS) mitigation blocking of IP addresses exceeding request numbers and frequency thresholds. Profense now includes the ability to automatically block IP addresses from which hostile requests have been logged. This new form of blocking will be triggered by hostile requests across listed websites based on risk levels of request or number of requests with predetermined risk levels.

Improved health checking of backend servers: Improved health checking of web servers improves website and web application availability ensuring a safe, consistent and uninterrupted experience for website visitors. Profense proactively checks webserver availability and allows programmed event based disabling of failed or overburdened web servers with immediate alerting of the event via email or Syslog. Both HTTP  response code and response body checksum methods are supported.

Improved support for web 2.0: Expanded support for web 2.0 applications by adding support for JSON and SOAP web services request format

A dashboard providing a much better overview of what is going on in the website proxies: Improved reporting features and functionality that give greater visibility to threatening activity and allows for aggregate and individual website deny log viewing, highly specific policy building and highly onfigurable event reporting. The new Profense Dashboard allows for individual and cross website analysis.

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Yigal Behar