Saying that they're fed up with some security vendors claiming that their products protect against application-level attacks, a group of application-firewall vendors on Tuesday will issue a challenge to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Symantec Corp. and others to prove that their offerings are truly capable of stopping such attacks. . . .
Things are getting a bit testy in the application-security market.

Saying that they're fed up with some security vendors claiming that their products protect against application-level attacks, a group of application-firewall vendors on Tuesday will issue a challenge to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Symantec Corp. and others to prove that their offerings are truly capable of stopping such attacks.

Executives from Teros Inc., NetContinuum Inc. and Imperva Inc. said the reasoning behind the challenge is simple: to give customers a clearer picture of which products do in fact stop application-layer attacks.

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