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:
- Firewalls to protect LANs from outside attacks
- IPsec Virtual Private Networking (VPN) appliances to secure communications over insecure networks (e.g. the Internet)
- Intrusion Prevention & Detection Systems (IPS / IDS) to monitor network communications and identify suspicious traffic
- 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.
6WINDGate Benefits
Multicore technology is an ideal platform for security applications. It provides the needed processing capabilities, simplifies the integration of security with networking features and integrates built-in security hardware accelerators (crypto and regex engines).
6WINDGate is the only packet processing software product that gives security OEMs the power to develop the most cost-effective systems with the highest networking performance while minimizing time-to-revenue.
| 6WINDGate Solution | Benefits |
| High-performance packet processing software that extracts the highest performance from multicore platforms.
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Offload the appliance from resource-consuming networking processing.Support security accelerators for maximum performance.Reduce the number of cores necessary for networking functions to optimize performance or reduce system cost and power consumption. |
| A drop-in replacement for standard networking stacks. | Reduce engineering costs, software investment and Time-To-Market by simplifying software development, integration and migration. |
| A transparent architecture for security integration. | Reduce development time and costs to integrate networking and security features.
Focus development teams on system added value.
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| A validated solution on market-leading multicore platforms. | Provide architectural flexibility and a scalable technology portfolio to develop a complete range a products. |
Use Case
6WINDGate has been selected by major security appliance providers to develop a range of products.
