Security company Third Brigade, has unveiled today support for Windows Vista with its flagship product. Third Brigade Deep Security is a host intrusion prevention system designed to identify and stop known and zero-day attacks via a combination of deep packet inspection and firewall technology.

"Some host intrusion prevention vendors have platform compatibility issues with the kernel hooking approach they use," said Brian O'Higgins of Third Brigade. "However, Third Brigade Deep Security has been architected to protect multiple platforms, and primarily uses deep packet inspection to protect vulnerabilities. This allows us to quickly support new operating system versions, and ensures that our host intrusion prevention system is not a barrier to customer deployments of new platform versions."

Currently, Third Brigade Deep Security will only deliver support for the 32-bit editions of Vista, but support for 64-bit versions will be added in early 2007. Because Third Brigade has implemented published APIs to construct its technology, the host intrusion system will be fully compatible with 64-bit Windows Vista.

"Microsoft Windows Vista is the latest operating system version from Microsoft and will be followed in 2007 with Microsoft Windows Server "Longhorn". Significant security enhancements have been added to Windows Vista and complement the protection provided by Third Brigade Deep Security. Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" 64-bit versions include PatchGuard, a kernel protection mechanism that is problematic for some security vendor implementations," revealed Third Brigade in a press release.