NetLogic Microsystems and Endeavor Security Collaborate to Accelerate Intrusion Prevention Systems

NetLogic (News - Alert) Microsystems, Inc. and Endeavor Security, Inc., have announced a broad collaboration between the companies to facilitate intrusion prevention capabilities for a wide range of performance levels. This varies from high-end carrier and enterprise networks to small and mid-sized businesses (SMB).

 

To accelerate detection of signatures in Endeavor’s FirstLight signature knowledgebase to wire-speed 10Gbps rates, this new solution leverages NetLogic Microsystems’ (News - Alert) NLS210HAP knowledge-based processing solution. To enable lower power consumption and memory requirements, the NLS210HAP knowledge-based processing solution features NetLogic Microsystems’ revolutionary Intelligent Finite Automaton (IFA) architecture, which uses a multi-threaded hybrid of finite automaton algorithms.

 

To effectively accelerate complex and iterative content inspection, the IFA offers more than 100 Terabits per second (Tbps) of ultra-low latency access bandwidth to on-chip rule databases. This also gets rid of the need to provision for the high-latency and costly off-chip memory which competing solutions may use. Allowing its 8-lane PCI-Express interface to take full advantage of the bandwidth supported by the newest general purpose CPUs, the high performance of the NLS210HAP knowledge-based processing solution is enabled by the 8-lane PCI-Express interface.

 

As part of the agreement, both the companies have demonstrated the industry’s broadest reference implementation of 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) signature detection. They have done this by using a combination of Endeavor Security’s market-leading FirstLight signature knowledgebase and NetLogic Microsystems’ NETL7 Layer 7 knowledge-based processors. Customers can deploy next generation secure web, unified threat management (UTM), IPS and policy gateway devices with improved performance and uncompromised security protection against complex and mutated threats.

 

Endeavor Security’s FirstLight signature knowledgebase is the industry’s largest multi-vendor commercially-available IPS and malware database and it consists of more than 16,000 highly-accurate component-based signatures. Now, security OEMs, networking vendors, government agencies and Telco/ISPs can protect their networks against intrusions, viruses, vulnerabilities, compliance violations, blacklist address accesses, policy violations, web attacks and blended threats.

 

“We are raising the bar by partnering with a respected security leader to deliver a real-world solution incorporating a best-of-breed intrusion protection signature knowledgebase,” said Chris O’Reilly, vice president of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems. “Endeavor’s FirstLight signature knowledgebase has achieved broad customer adoption, and the combination of these two solutions creates a proven solution for OEMs to add security for high-speed security appliances and networking equipment, such as switches and routers.”