RSA 2007: Netronome introduces highest-performance transparent SSL proxy

Netronome Systems announced the availability of the industry’s highest-performance transparent proxy for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) network communications. The Netronome SSL Inspector is designed for security and network appliance manufacturers, enterprise IT organizations and system integrators. The SSL Inspector allows network appliances to be deployed with the highest levels of flow analysis while still maintaining multi-gigabit, line-rate network performance for compliance, NAC and other security applications.

Managing SSL traffic has proven difficult, but with the Netronome SSL Inspector, users can take advantage of a unique combination of capabilities that removes the risks arising from lack of visibility into SSL traffic while increasing the performance of security and network appliances, including:

” Line-rate Network Performance: All non-SSL flows are cut-through in hardware in less than 10 microseconds, eliminating unnecessary delay for time-sensitive applications, such as VoIP.
” Network Transparency: Unlike existing SSL proxies, the SSL Inspector is deployed as a “bump in the wire” and is completely transparent to both end users and intermediate networking elements. It does not require network configuration, IP addressing or topology changes, or modification to client IP interface and web browser configurations.
” Scalable Flow-based Processing: At up to 4 gigabits per second, the SSL Inspector supports the analysis of 200,000 SSL and 1,000,000 total simultaneous flows.
” High Connection Rate: The SSL Inspector provides more than ten times the setup and teardown rate of SSL proxy solutions, at over 50,000 SSL and 250,000 total sessions per second.
” Application Preservation: All network and security applications and appliances, such as IDS, IPS, UTM and HTTP and WAN load balancing, can continue to work for SSL and non-SSL communications, extending their usability.
” Open Application Programming Interface: Netronome’s solution is the only probe with API programmability that provides network and security appliance manufacturers with a simple way to integrate SSL inspection into their new applications. The SSL Inspector can also be used with existing, unmodified applications.

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