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Originally published at Internet.comDetermina VPS (Vulnerability Protection Suite) consists of the vendor's two primary product offerings: Memory Firewall, which seeks to prevent the exploitation of known and unknown memory-based system vulnerabilities, and LiveShield, which uses in-memory technology to target specific vulnerabilities in running applications without requiring the immediate patching of the application.
Determina Memory Firewall is an intrusion prevention platform that prevents attacks by watching for and preventing the exploitation of memory-based system vulnerabilities (any type of attack methodology wherein the intruder gains access to a system by somehow injecting their own code into running applications on a server and tricking the application into running this new code on their behalf). Examples of memory vulnerabilities include buffer overflows, heap manipulation, etc.
Fueled by technology developed at M.I.T., Determina Memory Firewall requires no signature updates or regular ongoing maintenance for proper operation. Rather, the technology utilizes an "inline virtualization" method, creating a "secure code cache" that operates between launched applications and their execution environments. As each code portion of the application is run for the first time, Determina augments the code as necessary with specialized security checks (see below), which then allow it to monitor key code instructions as the then cached native code of the application continues to execute. The result of the code security checking and caching is that malicious activities can be blocked in real-time before they are actually executed in the environment.
As a result of its scan of the initial application, the Determina technology is able to apply multiple, dynamic types of security checks to the running code. These include verifying that the instructions to be executed are actually a part of the original program loaded at startup; verifying that the original program was actually designed to go to these instructions from the previous intructions; and verifying that the instructions are legitimate instructions as being used in the current specific context. According to the vendor, the technology operates on the entire memory space of a protected program.
The LiveShield offering is available as an add-on to the Memory Firewall and seeks to address specific vulnerabilities in in-memory applications, without requiring that the applications be rebooted (and thereby allowing administrators to apply the necessary physical patches to the applications at their leisure). The vendor creates LiveShield updates in response to newly announced threats from Microsoft, ISVs, hackers, and the information security community; these updates can be downloaded by customers and deployed in real-time to their LiveShield protected systems.
Determina VPS utilizes a Management Console (on a dedicated Windows machine) which serves as a central deployment, configuration management, and event logging control point for the distributed Determina agents on the host machines. The agents communicate with the Console via HTTP/S communications, and the Console is Web-based, allowing for remote management of VPS functions via Web browser. The vendor additionally notes the product's "standards-based integrations" allowing the platform to be managed in conjunction with 3rd party tools.
Determina VPS is now available in two versions: A Server Edition and a Desktop Edition. The Server Edition runs only on server versions of Windows and is priced at $750/server; while the Desktop Edition is targeted to desktop or laptop Windows machines and is priced at $50/seat.
Contact Determina for further information.Author: EITPlanet Staff
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