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StoneGate IPS can inspect encrypted web traffic to protect hosts and servers against hidden web attacks
Traditionally, organisations’ network security relies mainly on the perimeter security enforcement, while encrypted web channels have acted as a means to bypass the security functions.
Stonesoft has introduced the new StoneGate IPS-1030 appliance with the unique capability of inspecting encrypted web traffic. This eliminates the traditional blind spot in network protection. The new appliance provides protection for both corporate network users and public web services against attacks hidden inside the encrypted web connection.
StoneGate IPS provides a controlled way to open the encryption in the network and to submit the encrypted web traffic for the same inspection as the clear-text data, thus eliminating the blind spot in the network protection.
The new, unique SSL inspection feature provided by StoneGate IPS 5.0 and IPS-1030 appliance gives the network security administrators an efficient tool to monitor the traffic inside of the TLS/SSL encryption and to protect against u... [ more ]
FalconStor Software Virtual Tape Library delivers the fastest backup and deduplication time
FalconStor Software, Inc. has announced that it now delivers the fastest backup and deduplication time in the industry with the FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with deduplication solution. In addition to reducing backup, deduplication and restore time through optimization, the FalconStor VTL solution's ability to leverage Fibre Channel for replicating deduplicated data further reduces the total time to DR.
A critical metric for assessing enterprise readiness for full recovery from data center failure, total time to DR is measured by the time required to back up a given amount of data, write it to tape, deduplicate it, replicate it to a remote DR site, and restore the data to full availability.
FalconStor staged a test of its latest version of FalconStor VTL with deduplication in order to validate the performance of FalconStor VTL in a real data center configuration and to demonstrate a best-practice scenario. Measured were key performance criteria, including ingest rate, ... [ more ]
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