New Challenges in
the Network Security Market
As security has become a serious concern for
IT equipment suppliers, a wide range of dedicated security products
have appeared in the market to counter potential threats from different
sources:
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Firewalls to
protect LANs from outside attacks |
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IPsec Virtual
Private Networking (VPN) appliances to secure communications
over insecure networks (e.g. the Internet) |
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Intrusion Prevention & Detection Systems (IPS / IDS)
to monitor network communications and identify suspicious
traffic
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Anti-virus, anti-spam… to protect
Internet applications |
A new class of network security equipment has
appeared under the name of Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances.
Embedding several security functions in a single appliance, UTM
appliances bring valuable benefits to end customers, including:
a coherent multi-layered security architecture (as opposed to earlier
collections of disparate point-products); CAPEX and OPEX reductions;
flexible deployment strategies resulting from the installation of
new security features on existing hardware.
This new generation of equipment requires integrating
UTM functions with networking features and managing increasing networking
bandwidth.
6WIND Value-Proposition
for Security Market
6WINDGate™ is an ideal solution
for simplifying the integration of security and networking features
for a new generation of high performance security gateways based
on multicore architectures:
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The 6WINDGate
networking software provides a comprehensive and ready to
use set of Layer 2 through / Layer 4 networking features, including
NAT, IPsec, IKE and firewall, each one optimally partitioned
between the Fast Path and the Slow Path. |
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6WINDGate maximizes
the performance of the networking layer for multicore platforms
via the Fast Path architecture. It delivers the maximum throughput
for the security applications. |
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The 6WINDGate high-level APIs support the use of multicore
hardware crypto-engines for maximum performance.
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6WINDGate simplifies
the integration of application software because standard
Linux APIs such as netlink, netfilter and PF_KEY are preserved,
making Fast Path-based architectures fully transparent to the
applications. This maximizes customers' software reuse and minimizes
their time-to-market. |
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The 6WINDGate
XML-based management system simplifies the integration with
the management system of the UTM appliance. |
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For critical
applications, 6WINDGate provides High Availability capabilities
to minimize service interruption. |
6WINDGate is available on market-leading multicore
platforms (Cavium, Freescale, Intel and Netlogic).
6WINDGate networking framework for UTM Appliance
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