Radware (NASDAQ; RDWR) the leading provider of Intelligent Application Switching (IAS), ensuring control, performance and the integrity of networked applications across the enterprise, announced the release of its new product Content Inspection Director. The solution addresses the challenge of providing complete content security by delivering fault tolerant, accelerated and optimized anti-virus scanning and content inspection.
“The ability to scan and ensure security of all content across networks has been nearly impossible due to capacity requirements. Inspection for malicious and untrusted traffic often slows traffic as anti virus tools have to inspect all traffic, with no possibility of differentiating between trusted and non-trusted content,” said Zeus Kerravala, Vice President, Yankee Group. “The ability to direct only the applicable traffic to the anti-virus scanners in a redundant and scalable anti-virus environment could significantly help overcome the challenge.”
Since content security devices are processing heavy, bottlenecks occur during inspection for malicious content. Radware’s Content Inspection Director contains a pre-screening algorithm that allows for the differentiation between trusted and non-trusted content. The suspect content is directed to inspection devices such as anti-virus gateways and content filters, while trusted content bypasses the inspection devices and proceeds normally. Since a high percentage of Internet traffic is trusted content - such as streaming, audio files and image files - offloading the trusted content results in up to a 500 percent increase in performance.
Content Inspection Director achieves finer security granularity by defining inspection policies according to customer requirements. CID’s flow management allows users to sequentially load balance several server clusters, whereby each one provides a different service based on source, destination, traffic type and physical port.
“Radware’s Content Inspection Director is the first product in the market to provide high availability and maximum performance anti-virus protection. Gigabit speed security switching and traffic redirection streamline content inspection services for the fastest and most economical content protection available,” said Sharon Trachtman, VP Marketing, Radware. “Enterprises continue to increase their usage of content and anti-virus gateway tools, and we are providing our customers a competitive advantage with a solution that can pre-screen content and differentiate between trusted and suspect traffic.”
Radware’s Content Inspection Director has been tested and verified compatible with industry leading anti-virus and URL filtering appliances.
Key Features of Radware’s Content Inspection Director
Content Inspection Director focuses on the needs of enterprises that demand high capacity Internet content security.
- Maximum Performance Content Inspection - Gigabit Speed Security Switching for maximum performance of anti-virus and URL filtering operations.
- High Availability Protection - Health monitoring and traffic redirection for full availability of anti-virus gateways and URL appliances, for the continuous scanning and blocking of malicious content.
- Content Inspection Acceleration – Pre-screening and load balancing of anti-virus gateways and URL filtering for accelerated high performance content inspection.
- Anti-virus Service Scaling -Seamless scaling of anti-virus services by aggregating inspection capacity to Gigabit speeds through the use of anti-virus gateway farms
- Transparent Multi Vendor Compatibility – Maximum security and ease of integration is ensured with the implementation of various inspection tools from different vendors
- Anti-virus Service Visibility- Radware’s application management tool, Configware Insite, provides end-to-end monitoring of anti-virus services
About Radware
Radware is dedicated to providing Intelligent Application Switching, guaranteeing the best operation and servicing of IP applications and enterprise traffic across the Internet. Radware aligns application needs with the network infrastructure to seamlessly allocate resources, optimize application operations and extend security, ensuring the integrity of critical business processes.
Radware’s solutions address the needs of corporate enterprises, service providers, and e-commerce business through one or more of our award winning products including: Web Server Director (WSD), Cache Server Director (CSD), Content Inspection Director (CID), FireProof, LinkProof, Peer Director, CertainT 100. Our comprehensive suite of products service end-to-end application operations, providing robust and scalable network traffic assurance. Get certain, from click to content, across your network -- with Radware. For more information, please visit us at www.radware.com
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the Internet traffic management industry, changes in demand for Internet traffic management products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in Radware’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Radware’s Form 20-F.