Cloud & Telecom Security

By this acquisition, HP enters enterprise networking market with strong threat management product line from Tippingpoint.

The vulnerability and threats research of DVLabs will greatly improve HP’s capability and image at these areas, so that HP’s competition against IBM will become more effective.  X-Force of ISS is one of the critical advantages of IBM over HP, at overall one-stop IT arena.

Historically, after the acquisition of an independent security company, their selling model and focus will change to more aligned with major businesses.  As for HP’s scenario, their security product lines, including the IPS/UTM, focuses on their global enterprise customers and outsourcing partners.  The security department, mostly, will lose some momentum to find and obtain new customers, instead, they will be more interested at existing customers, bundled within other bigger IT/service orders. Read more…

The traditional security products, including firewall, IDS, and anti-virus are very familiar to us. They are occupying most of security market share. And we know the UTM, IPS, and SOC are the ongoing stars. However, what’s about the future? From the view of ISO/OSI model, we know we have done too much on the network layer; we had focused on this layer and developed lots of products based on it.

Maybe the reason is like this: in the past, we implement the IT infrastructure without security built in it. Internet spread widely in few years as security just can’t keep up with it. This has brought a lot of breaches or exposure at the networking layer. Read more…

坦白说，这个帖子是很久很久以前的冷饭，在记事帖中放了很长时间。2008年很快就要过去了，于是就想把他们先贴上来，因为也不知后面什么时间能够把他们补齐完成。

艰难的2008

2008年8月11日，应该说是中国安全业界的一个大日子，国内第一家安全公司IPO – 卫士通信息产业股份有限公司在深圳证券交易所挂牌交易。首先祝贺一下！ Read more…

看完皓月所写的“防火墙、UTM产品OEM第三方产品或嵌入第三方反病毒引擎的利弊分析”，掩卷而思，这些观点印证了前些天和朋友们探讨的若干观点。近几年，防火墙和入侵检测系统IDS演变到防火墙FW、入侵防御系统IPS和统一威胁管理UTM系统的三国争霸，UTM将会代替防火墙的声音获得了不少关注。从皓月的这篇文章中，你能发现很多更深层次的思索。

皓月认为：基本上第一阵营、第二阵营传统信息安全厂商中的一半以上OEM飞塔的防毒墙，而采用嵌入引擎的方式则种类繁多，包括国外的卡巴斯基、赛门铁克、 Sophos、F-Prot以及国内的金山、安天等在内，而三线厂商则更有采用廉价但粗糙的开源的反病毒引擎ClamAV的解决方案。 Read more…

Force10 is getting into a new territory by the release of its P-series 10GE/GE IDS/IDP yesterday. Basically speaking, it's the first 10G IDS/IDP products in the market. Force10 P-series products includes P-10, which has two 10GE ports, and P-1, which has two 1GE ports. They can work like with SPAN from switches lieke IDS's , and in-line like IPS's. Force10 will compete against Juniper, Cisco, Fortinet, 3Com and other high-end IDS/IPS/UTM vendors.

It's a bit astonishing that 2x10GE port P-10 is condensed into a 1U rack mountable box. Based on its patented DPI (deep packet inspection) technology, P-series engines run at full line-rate for GbE or 10 GbE network links with full deep-packet inspection and stateful signatures/policies enabled.

While they're at it, Force10 officials are taking a swipe at the mainstream security market with the P-1, a similar two-port box for Gigabit Ethernet lines.

MetaNetworks was shipping its own products, but those are subsumed by the P-series, which Force10 believes is more suitable for volume shipments. Force10 officials have said they'll eventually turn MetaNetworks's FPGA-based technology into a series of blades.

Any lead Force10 has in 10-Gbit/s security might not last long. Fortinet Inc. admits it doesn't have a 10-Gbit/s intrusion detection and prevention box, but the company pledges it will "announce something, probably within the next couple of months," a spokeswoman says.

Both of the P-series systems are shipping in production, with the P-10 listed at $95,000 and the P-1 at $38,000.

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