Pure Hacking wins iAward for its PureWAF security application

Pure Hacking, Australia's leading specialist information security consultancy, has won the NSW Finalist iAward for its PureWAF managed web application firewall service. The 2011 iAwards recognises companies at the cutting edge of technology research and honours the achievements of home-grown Australian innovators.

PureWAF is an alternative web application firewall solution to better manage the mitigation and monitoring of security breaches. PureWAF can be implemented as a virtual appliance or embedded within the web server on an internal network or externally in the cloud. The cloud-based PureWAF implementation allows customers to take advantage of the scalability and cost benefits of a flexible computing environment without compromising the security of their web application.

PureWAF detects and blocks attacks targeting web applications, inspecting all inbound and outbound application traffic including encrypted traffic. Deployment of PureWAF ensures an organisation's security and compliance needs are so then managed. It has been developed to replace traditional appliance-based WAFs with a tailored solution that can handle business logic attacks, distributed denial of service, zero-day vulnerabilities, brute force and other malicious attacks.

The IQ Business Group

The IQ Business Group, Australia today confirmed the appointment of Avron Welgemoed in the newly created role of Microsoft Solutions Sales Manager. Avron will be responsible for the sales and delivery of Microsoft Solutions to the company's financial services client base.