CARLSBAD, California, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- WebDefend Deployed At PopCap.com To Help Safeguard Customers

Breach Security, Inc., the leader in web application security, today announced that PopCap Games, a leading multiplatform developer and publisher of casual games, has chosen Breach Security's WebDefend web application security appliance to secure http://www.popcap.com in line with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance. WebDefend protects all PopCap's online properties, web applications and transactions while preventing leakage of user data. It also reveals application coding defects that can compromise the availability and security of PopCap's website, allowing security teams to bridge the software lifecycle gap by generating help tickets for defect remediation.

"PopCap games are about fun. But there's nothing fun about web security breaches so we, at PopCap, are committed to having the best online security available. We chose WebDefend to be compliant with PCI DSS requirements," said Neil Quiogue, Information Security Specialist at PopCap Games. "Breach Security monitors all in-bound and out-bound web traffic, decrypts SSL data to ensure secure online credit card transactions, and offers our customers complete protection from known and unknown web application threats."

PopCap games, available for platforms including Web, PC, Mac, mobile, Xbox, PS2 and iPod, have been downloaded more than one billion times by consumers worldwide. Flagship title, Bejeweled, has sold more than 10 million units across all platforms and PopCap estimates the Bejeweled franchise has consumed roughly six billion hours of consumers' leisure time since 2001. Breach Security monitors both inbound and outbound traffic and offers flexible remediation options including TCP resets and web server logouts. Highly dynamic applications like PopCap's games change frequently at the code level and require the continuous, real-time protection that WebDefend delivers through its combined positive and negative security models. PopCap has deployed WebDefend security across its global datacenters to support its entire user base.

"We are pleased to work with PopCap to secure their online applications and make casual gaming a worry-free pastime for their customers," said Sanjay Mehta, Senior Vice President at Breach Security. "PopCap's selection of Breach Security after a meticulous competitive analysis is a testament to WebDefend's ability to accurately detect and prevent web application attacks, and guard against inadvertent web data leakage resulting from insecurely coded applications."

According to a recent Information Security magazine product review of Web applications firewalls, WebDefend was designated as "an excellent choice for data protection as well as application security." The product review also gave WebDefend the highest praise for addressing compliance requirements for PCI DSS.

Breach Security's award-winning WebDefend(TM) web application firewall appliance offers organizations out-of-the-box PCI compliance. WebDefend not only provides immediate compliance with Section 6.6 of the PCI DSS, but also helps organizations comply with many other PCI DSS requirements.

WebDefend includes a pre-packaged PCI policy and reports. The PCI policy ensures the proper security configuration for attack prevention and the logging of all payment card use. PCI-specific reports provide an immediate view of the system's overall level of compliance and details of sensitive information use for audit purposes.

About WebDefend

WebDefend is an advanced web application firewall that offers customized, behavior-based security for each protected application. Only WebDefend uses a patented profiling system and multiple, collaborative detection engines to ensure the flow of business-critical traffic while supplying complete protection for applications to keep the organizations' confidential information safe from targeted attacks. Deployed out-of-line, WebDefend uniquely provides non-intrusive, effective security for multi-application environments while continuing to provide full blocking capabilities. In 2008, WebDefend has been praised for its accurate attack detection and prevention, ease-of-use, performance and targeted Payment Card Industry features in reviews by major industry publications including SC Magazine and Information Security magazine, a TechTarget publication.

About Breach Security, Inc.

Breach Security, Inc. is the leading provider of real-time, continuous web application security that protects sensitive web-based information. Breach Security's products protect web applications from hacking attacks and data leakage, and ensure applications operate as intended. The company's products are trusted by thousands of organizations around the world, including leaders in finance, healthcare, ecommerce, travel, and government. For more information, please visit http://www.breach.com.

About PopCap

PopCap Games (http://www.popcap.com) is the leading multi-platform provider of "casual games" -- fun, easy-to-learn, captivating computer games that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106. Based in Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of over 180 people in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C. and Dublin. Its games have been downloaded more than 1 billion times by consumers worldwide, and its flagship title, Bejeweled(R), has sold more than 10 million units across all platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics, PopCap's games are played on the Web, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices (cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod and more), popular game consoles (such as Xbox), and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap is the only casual games developer with leading market share across all major sales channels, including Web portals, retail stores, mobile operators and developers, and game device manufacturers.

The PopCap logo and all other trademarks used herein that are listed at http://www.popcap.com/trademarks are owned by PopCap Games, Inc. or its licensors and may be registered in some countries. Other company and product names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners and are used for the benefit of those owners.

Web site: http://www.breach.com http://www.popcap.com

Jill Reed of Schwartz Communications, +1-415-512-0770, breachsecurity@schwartz-pr.com, for Breach Security, Inc.; or Cathy Orr of PopCap Games, +353-87-225-6488, corr@popcap.com