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Security
is one of the fastest growing
industries, with the demand for
movies, music and high-quality
conferencing dramatically on the
increase, this problem is not going to
go away. The headache associated
with all this data doesn’t just lie with
the services providers, but also with
the organisations trying to monitor
and manage all of this new content.
What is clear is the fact that it offers a
great opportunity for hackers to
implement viruses, service attacks
and worms into enterprise systems
and wreak havoc. To sum it up, no Deep Packet Inspection or Content continue to increase in tandem with
packet should be allowed to enter a Inspection. the increasingly complex nature of
network cable without first being network traffic. At the same time,
assessed by a content inspection Viruses, another threat to the footprint and energy-efficiency are
system. protective vanguard, must be critical concerns. However, an answer
identified and managed out of the to this challenge is now available; a
What’s the answer? enterprise network efficiently and low-cost, fully converged content
To protect the network against attack, effectively - but without placing undue inspection solution that satisfies all
it is critical to first identify the nature overhead on the network itself. This is requirements including broad
and intent of the attacks themselves. done through frequently conducted spectrum security and intrusion
A front line of defence against virus profile updates, rapid and detection and protection in real time,
intrusion, which includes software accurate identification of threat network QoS and compliance with IT-
exploits, vulnerability probing and profiles, and efficient quarantine, sensitive performance requirements.
denial-of-service attacks, can inoculation and elimination practices.
eliminate a high percentage of would- LSI’s T1000 Tarari Content Processing
be disruptive events up-front by From a user’s perspective, systems or family of silicon devices facilitate the
reducing harmful traffic, carefully applications that perform these tasks creation of multifaceted security
discriminating between intrusive and are worth their weight in gold. To an IT procedures in the form of a unified
valid packets, and putting into place a administrator, however, they can be threat management application that
management and monitoring regime technologically complex, expensive, takes care of information security,
that does not have a negative impact and highly demanding of management intrusion detection, and virus control.
on enterprise productivity. and administrative time. New These devices have been designed to
techniques for increasing the overall support cross-packet inspection in
However, it is no secret that if the efficiency of these systems have been hardware situations in which a threat
protection process becomes overly in demand for some time. One spans multiple packets and can
onerous to execute, employees will response to the demand has been the handle over one million streams of
find ways around it, regardless of the move to a Unified Threat Management data at the same time. LSI now
potential impact of the threat it model, but this puts further strain on makes it possible to deliver security,
protects against. already overloaded systems because energy efficiency, cost-and space-
they must now look for intrusions and consciousness in a device that can be
The best way to prevent intrusions is viruses at the same time. installed universally - and well within
to monitor the flow and type of traffic. the cost constraints of even the most
Also, rather than just inspecting the Summary budget-conscious IT departments. So
headers of each network packet, Of course, as time goes on threat even if the data on your network
gateways should inspect all of the profiles evolve and market demands grows year-on-year you will be
content of every packet for threats. shift. Demands for a cost- and protected and your business critical
This method is often referred to as performance-effective solution data will be safe.
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