That fact that it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Tech Vendor for ThreatSentry, its IIS Web Application Firewall and Intrusion Prevention solution has been announced by an innovative provider of web application security, intrusion prevention and security data analytics software, Privacyware.

For up-and-coming companies to solution providers who realize the importance of adding fresh and innovative technologies to their portfolios, CRN's list of emerging technology vendors provides exposure. As part of their product offerings this year, as many as 60 percent of solution providers plan to add an emerging vendor's solutions. ThreatSentry, Privacyware's award-winning IIS Web Application Firewall and Host Intrusion Prevention solution, addresses the rising frequency and severity of SQL Injection, cross-site scripting other web-based threats and helps clients achieve compliance with section 6.6 of the Data Security Standard (DSS).

The top reasons channel partners add emerging technologies, according to CRN's Emerging Tech Survey, include: the technology is superior to other products in the market segment; emerging vendors pay better attention to partners; emerging vendors provide better services opportunities; the technology complements a channel partner's existing practice areas; emerging vendors offer higher margins, customers want alternative product choices; and emerging vendors have better joint marketing programs. In addition, 61 percent of channel partners surveyed plan to increase the number of emerging technology vendors they partner with in the next 12 months.

Specifically designed to address internal and external unauthorized system access and cyber-criminal threats on Web servers utilizing Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), an ISAPI filter hosted in MMC, ThreatSentry is comprised of a Web Application Firewall and behavior-based Intrusion prevention component founded on specialized artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

ThreatSentry detects and blocks known and new attacks and unwanted web application traffic and also helps customers comply with section 6.6 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Other key ThreatSentry features include email alert notification, compliance and security reporting, centralized management for multiple servers and protection from an array of documented exploitive techniques including SQL Injection, Directory Traversal, Buffer Overflow, Parameter Manipulation, Cross-site scripting, Denial of Service, and other exploitive techniques.