ROCKVILLE, Md. -- NFR Security, Inc., the leader in Real-Time Threat Protection™, today announced the industry’s first Dynamic Shielding Architecture™ (DSA) to protect and secure networks in real-time against a range of dynamic threats, including intrusions, vulnerabilities and changing network environments. By combining the prevention capabilities of NFR Security’s Sentivist, with network vulnerability intelligence and new automated protection features, the Dynamic Shielding Architecture can intelligently and automatically adjust to shield the network against real-time threats.

“NFR Security’s Sentivist intrusion prevention technology was clean and quick to set up right out of the box and its customization capabilities were key to meeting the diverse needs of our customers,” said Peter Anderson, Chief Information Officer at Computer Systems Center Incorporated (CSCI). “Dynamic Shielding Architecture will give our customers an added level of protection and peace of mind by offering real-time information and tools to monitor, tune and address network security threats immediately.”

Specifically, the Sentivist Dynamic Shielding Architecture incorporates the following new technologies and features:

• Correlation and Prioritization of Network Vulnerabilities: Assesses enterprise networks to detect any changes and vulnerabilities by using Nessus, an open-source scanner. The Sentivist Protection Center graphically and textually presents correlated and prioritized asset vulnerability profiles for the Security Manager to act upon.

• Dynamic Vulnerability Shielding: Based on vulnerability CVE information, Sentivist will automatically deploy default signatures to protect key services against these discovered vulnerabilities.

• Detection and Protection for New Network Changes/Rogue Servers: Utilizes Nessus data to automatically detect network changes, alerts the Security Manager to the new service and dynamically deploys the proper signature sets to protect those new services and IP addresses.

The result is a security environment that is aware of network vulnerabilities and changes, and can adapt to those changes to ensure continuous protection. For example, the DSA can provide security managers with dynamic network protection for newly discovered vulnerabilities during the waiting period when security and software patches are still being developed and deployed.