An innovative provider of web application security, intrusion prevention and security data analytics software, Privacyware, announced that a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, Network Products Guide, has named ThreatSentry a winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award in the Web Application Firewall category. Vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology are recognized and honored by this annually venerated award.

Protecting Microsoft IIS Web servers, web applications and related systems from known and new internal or external attacks such as Parameter Manipulation, Cross-site scripting, SQL Injection, Denial of Service, and other threats, ThreatSentry is a web application firewall and intrusion prevention solution. ThreatSentry combines a knowledge-base of documented exploits, machine and mentored learning, and an AI-based analytic engine specifically designed for Windows web servers that continuously collects, analyzes and organizes server requests into an evolving baseline of acceptable activity. To identify and take action against any activity falling outside of trusted parameters, each server connection is compared against the web application firewall rules and knowledgebase and the evolving system profile.

Editor-n-chief, Network Products Guide, Rake Narang, declared: "The goal of any product innovation must always remain a positive change, making or improving solutions better than before". He added: "ThreatSentry's innovative neural technologies advance web application security and enable customers to be proactive against the rising volume and sophistication of threats facing a company's web applications and related systems."