Finjan SecureBrowsing Provides Safety Rating for Web Addresses Showing on
 Search Results and Selected Web Pages, Real-Time Content Analysis Delivers
                 Most Accurate Detection of Malicious Code
 Visit Finjan's RSA Exhibit for Demos of Finjan SecureBrowsing and Finjan's
  High-Performance Vital Security Web Appliances, Plus its New RUSafe Tool
                 for Scanning Web Content in "Sniffer" Mode
                                 Booth 2213

    SAN FRANCISCO, California, February 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Finjan Inc., the
global provider of best-of-breed proactive web security solutions for
businesses and organizations, today unveiled Finjan SecureBrowsing, an
intuitive security assistance tool for end-users. Finjan SecureBrowsing is
being demoed at Finjan's RSA exhibit, Booth 2213, along with the company's
other recently-introduced web security offerings -- including its upgraded
high-performance line of Vital Security(TM) Web Appliances and its RUSafe
tool for scanning web content in "sniffer" mode.
    Finjan SecureBrowsing is a new browser extension that proactively
alerts users to potential malicious content hiding behind links of search
results, ads and other selected web pages. Finjan SecureBrowsing accesses
each of the links in its current form on the web, and scans the relevant
pages in real time using Finjan's patented behavior-based technology. Each
link is then marked with a safety rating - either safe (green) or
potentially malicious (red). Finjan SecureBrowsing enables end-users to
experience the same best-in-class security technologies currently in use at
large enterprise customers.
    "Finjan SecureBrowsing utilizes our breakthrough web security approach,
as implemented through our patented behavior-based scanning technology. It
analyzes website code in real time to provide users with safety ratings of
URLs before they visit the sites. This approach helps to prevent
potentially malicious content from entering companies' networks or PCs,"
said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO, Finjan. "By its nature, the web is very dynamic
with website content changing continuously -- a URL that was safe yesterday
might contain malicious code today. What's more, malicious attacks are
frequently performed from short-lived web pages that appear and vanish
within days without ever being categorized. Therefore, URL categorization
solutions fail to provide a real time safety rating of the web content.
That level of protection can only be achieved by detecting the intention of
the code up front, in real time, before the user visits the site."
    Ben-Itzhak noted that Finjan SecureBrowsing runs as an Internet
Explorer and Firefox extension, and will be available for download from
Finjan's website in March.
    Latest Vital Security(TM) appliances provide unmatched protection
against malicious web content
    The latest Vital Security family of proactive web security appliances
being demoed at RSA Conference includes the new Vital Security Web
Appliance NG-6100, a gateway solution that utilizes a robust, high
availability platform to meet enterprises' stringent reliability and
performance requirements. Finjan is also demoing its new line of Vital
Security Web Appliances -- comprising the NG-8100, NG-5100 and NG-1100 -
which have been upgraded to Finjan's new SUPERFORMANCE platforms. The new
and upgraded Finjan offerings introduce significant performance
enhancements, in some cases doubling the performance of previous models, as
well as ensuring high availability to comply with enterprises' demanding
requirements. In terms of security, Finjan's offerings continue to provide
the highest level of protection against malicious web content, recognized
as the number one threat to enterprise networks.
    Finjan will also demo its innovative Finjan RUSafe tool, which runs on
the Vital Security Web Appliances and enables enterprises to sniff live
traffic, scan content using Finjan security engines, and generate traffic
logs and reports. With Finjan RUSafe sniffer mode, an organization can
deploy the Vital Security Web Appliance using a very simple configuration
and without changes to its existing network topology. Enterprises needing a
proof-of-concept for Finjan solutions, or a sniffer approach to security,
can now install Finjan RUSafe in parallel to their existing infrastructure,
and easily upgrade the appliance to "live" mode when needed.
    Notes to Editors:
    Q. How do I benefit from Finjan SecureBrowsing?
    A. While browsing the web, you visit numerous websites that use Active
Content to enhance your web experience and capabilities. Active Content
supports capabilities such as changing images when the mouse moves over
them, popping up windows, displaying advertisements and supporting advance
design elements. However, these capabilities are also used by hackers to
change your system settings or even install Spyware applications. Finjan
SecureBrowsing alerts you, before you visit these pages, to any potential
malicious Active Content enabling you to benefit from today's wealth of web
capabilities without jeopardizing your PC and your private information.
    Q. What types of threats are identified?
    A. Finjan SecureBrowsing identifies potentially malicious code such as
Spyware, hacking code viruses and code that tampers with your PC system
settings. Such malicious code can even try to steal your private user name
and passwords when you visit your on-line banking website. Finjan
SecureBrowsing identifies all of these threats, in real time, by analyzing
the behavior of active content that could be used maliciously (such as
JavaScript, VB Script, ActiveX and Java applets).
    Q. Frequently malicious web sites appear and vanish rapidly. What
happens if I encounter such a short lived dedicated malicious web site that
has just been publicized?
    A. Finjan SecureBrowsing analyzes the website's behavior in real time,
enabling the detection of these short-lived malicious sites without having
to rely on history, black lists, or reputation. Finjan SecureBrowsing
analyzes the current web content, thus any time the page you browse
contains any type of malicious code, it will be detected, regardless of the
time it appears on that page. Other tools, such as URL Filtering, rely on
black lists and historical rating and thus are unable to analyze website
content in real time.
    Q. How can a malicious site harm my computer?
    A. Malicious sites contain active content that may alter your PC
settings and install Spyware, Adware, Trojans or other types of malicious
code. The outcome of these attacks may compromise your private information,
such as your on-line banking user name and password, and damage or crash
your system.
    Q. How many websites are mapped by Finjan SecureBrowsing?
    A. Finjan SecureBrowsing uses a real time analysis method. This means
that Finjan SecureBrowsing scans each URL showing in your browser as it
currently exists on the web. Thus, there is no limit to the number of
websites supported, and you are always assured of receiving the safety
ratings. Currently, for practical reasons (in order to keep a reasonable
number of safe/unsafe indications on the screen), Finjan SecureBrowsing
provides safety indication for URLs showing in the most popular websites
and search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Digg, Wikipedia and Blogger.
    Q. What happens if a website contained malicious code in the past, but
now is ok?
    A. While website categorization based rating would indicate that the
site is malicious, Finjan SecureBrowsing's safety rating is based on real
time malicious content detection. Hence the correct - green - indication
would be displayed.
    Q. How accurate is the indication I get?
    A. Finjan SecureBrowsing is proven to be the most accurate dynamic
malware sensor available. A 'red' indication is provided only when
suspicious code is detected.
    Q: How is Finjan SecureBrowsing different than other available
solutions?
    A. Other solutions are based on URL filtering/categorization
technology. URL categorization entails mapping the huge number of existing
websites, and rating each site as ok or malicious. While this has obvious
value, it also has a few major deficiencies:
    - As there are hundreds of millions of websites and the number is
constantly growing, it is impossible to map the entire WWW
    - It typically takes days to weeks to map a new website. Some hacking
and Phishing sites are short lived and vanish before they are even
categorized.
    - By its nature, the web is very dynamic with website content changing
continuously - a URL that was safe when it was categorized might contain
malicious code two hours later. Hackers are now taking advantage of this
weak spot of URL categorization, trying to install malware on reputable
URLs, such as MySpace and Wikipedia.
    In contrast, Finjan SecureBrowsing scans the current content of each
URL rather than looking it up on a database. Thus, there is no limit to the
number of websites supported by Finjan and the rating provided by Finjan
SecureBrowsing is always accurate and up to date.
    About Finjan
    Finjan is a global provider of best-of-breed web security solutions for
businesses and organizations. Our proactive, appliance-based solutions
deliver the most effective shield against web-borne threats, freeing
enterprises to harness the web for maximum commercial results. Finjan's web
security solutions utilize patented behavior-based technology to
proactively repel all types of threats arriving via the web, such as
Spyware, Phishing, Trojans and other malicious code, securing businesses
against unknown and emerging threats, as well as known malware. Finjan's
security solutions have received industry awards and recognition from
leading analyst houses and publications, including IDC, Butler Group, SC
Magazine, CRN, PCPro, ITWeek, and Information Security. With Finjan's
award-winning and widely used solutions, businesses can focus on
implementing web strategies to realize their full organizational and
commercial potential. For more information about Finjan, please visit:
http://www.finjan.com.
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