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For online organizations Profense™ reduces traffic cost by 30-60%, improving efficiency of content delivery and reducing business risk.

Profense offers uninterrupted availability and assurance of integrity and confidentiality through:

  • Distributing and balancing load between available servers, avoiding overburdened or unavailable servers.
  • Proactively protecting against attacks from hackers and worms by employing a positive security model. This even protects against attacks targeting unpublished or unpatched vulnerabilities.

Profense reduces cost through:

  • 30-60% savings on bandwidth usage through traffic compression.
  • Off-loading and balancing load between web servers, thus reducing the need for extra web servers.
  • Freeing administrative resources by releasing the constant burden of web server patch management.
  • Providing a cost efficient alternative to securing legacy web applications.

Profense improves system efficiency through:

  • Speeding up content delivery.
  • Utilizing system resources and bandwidth more efficiently.

Profense can be scaled with your organization by:

  • Improving performance of a single node Profense™ by upgrading hardware.
  • Improving performance of a Profense™ cluster by adding nodes or upgrading hardware.

Profense lowers costs of disaster preparedness and recovery:

  • If disaster strikes all that is needed to restore Profense™ is a backup and a piece of general purpose server hardware.
  • Unlike with most web application firewalls, Profense runs on off the shelve servers, removing the need to procure expensive hardware for recovery.