10.20.11 - Waltham, Mass. - Bit9, Inc., the market leader in adaptive application whitelisting, today announced Bit9 Parity for Servers, a comprehensive server security and compliance solution that protects mission-critical data and intellectual property stored on servers.

The Bit9 Parity for Servers solution provides the visibility, compliance and control needed to ensure configuration integrity, information protection and service continuity in all servers and virtual environments. The Bit9 solution maintains server uptime and availability while proactively defending against known and unknown zero-day attacks, such as Conficker, Operation Aurora, and Poison Ivy variants.

Due to the performance and availability requirements of business and mission-critical servers, many organizations forgo server security and assume they are protected because they are behind the firewall. However, as recent attacks have become more sophisticated and targeted, malicious hackers have found that there is real profit to be made by accessing the valuable data stored on business servers. To protect that data, the Bit9 application whitelisting solution allows only trusted software and approved changes to take place on servers.

“Bit9 has recognized that for many organizations servers are critical components of their IT infrastructure,” said Patrick Morley, CEO of Bit9. “Given the significance of these servers and the information organizations store, it is no surprise that they have become more of a target for cybercriminals, hacktivists and state sponsored attacks. Bit9 Parity for Servers provides the application control, change management and compliance needed to prevent zero-day attacks while preserving application, server uptime and performance.”

Bit9 Parity for Servers includes application whitelisting, file integrity monitoring and control, change control and attack prevention, ensuring only authorized applications and processes can run. Using Bit9’s real-time visibility and change management control mitigates the risk of targeted attacks and data breaches while reducing the time it takes to manage server processes.

Organizations will now be able to secure their physical and virtual server environments, as well as their business critical applications, databases, directories and file stores. Also equipped with critical security sensors, Bit9 Parity for Server Security will monitor, control and provide alerts on unauthorized changes that may represent an attack on a server. The solution works with a variety of different physical and virtual server environments, including domain controllers, Citrix, SQL, Sharepoint, Exchange, and more.

Some of the core features of Bit9 Parity for Servers include:

• File integrity monitoring/control: Continuously monitors, controls and reports on all changes; audits to prevent unauthorized change to configuration files; prevents the editing of a security log file to remove evidence.

• Adaptive application whitelisting: The default-deny, proactive posture provided by application whitelisting ensures that only explicitly trusted applications can run; stops advanced threats and zero-day attacks.

• Threat prevention: Only trusted software is allowed to run, preventing rootkits, key loggers, botnets and any other form of malware, including zero-day attacks for which no anti-virus signatures exist.

• Registry protection: Bit9 for Servers reports on and blocks any unauthorized change to critical files and registry keys.

• Device control: Bit9 for Servers provides device control protection to control port usage and prevent intentional or unintentional data leakage.

Availability

The Bit9 Parity for Servers is available immediately. For more information, please visit http://www.bit9.com or call +1 617.393.7400.

About Bit9

Bit9 is the market leader in adaptive application whitelisting. The company's award-winning endpoint protection and server security solutions provide total visibility and control over all software on endpoints, eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and unauthorized software. Bit9 specializes in protecting organizations against Advanced Persistent Threat attacks.

Bit9 leverages the Bit9 Global Software Registry™ – the world's largest database of software intelligence – to identify and classify software, delivering the highest levels of endpoint security, compliance, and manageability. Bit9's dynamic application whitelisting technology makes it simple to deploy application whitelisting in the largest of organizations. The company's global customers come from a wide variety of industries, such as government, financial services, retail, healthcare, e-commerce and education.

Bit9 is privately held and based in Waltham, Mass. For more information, visit http://www.bit9.com, follow on Twitter: @Bit9 and read the Bit9 Blog.

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