New Software Extends Hifn's Security Processing Leadership
SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA Conference, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Network- and storage-security market leader Hifn(TM) (Nasdaq: HIFN) announced
today Hifn Pattern Matching (HPM), a new high-performance content processing
software. HPM accelerates compute-intensive pattern and signature recognition
tasks for Enterprise and Carrier-class networks, as well as content inspection
of packets traveling through the network.
HPM contains "rule compression" technology that creates a highly compact
rules database format. The database, along with HPM's small code footprint,
resides in a microprocessor cache enabling unprecedented runtime performance.
Network edge security devices and Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances
all have the same fundamental limitation: they can only process packets at
the speed they can detect signatures. HPM's performance advantages
dramatically improve the overall throughput of these security systems.
"Hifn's HPM product offers a revolutionary new technology at a disruptive
performance level enabling our OEM customers to enhance their existing
products and position themselves well for the next-generation security
products," said Robert Friend, director of product marketing at Hifn. "Memory
speed is the primary bottleneck to Regular Expression content processing
performance. As a result, HPM enables content inspection software to
out-perform hardware."
The market for network security is expected to be one of the fastest
growing segments within the technology sector over the next decade, as service
providers, enterprises, consumers and government agencies increase their
deployment of security systems. In fact, market research firm Infonetics
predicts, in their 3Q CY2005 report, worldwide network security appliances and
software revenue will hit $6.0 billion by 2008.
The ability to perform content inspection at line rate and across multiple
packets and flows is essential to enabling the next generation of application-
layer switches, routers, and network security equipment. Typical applications
for HPM content processor software include unified threat management (UTM)
appliances, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), anti-virus
(AV) gateways, anti-spam appliances, and deep packet inspection (DPI)
firewalls.
HPM scans payload content of selected packets for worms, viruses, and
other malware and operates at gigabit speeds on GHz CPUs. HPM content
processing software is compatible with and optimized for all general-purpose
CPUs (Intel and AMD) and embedded processors (MIPS and PowerPC). The
software's simplified interface makes it easy to integrate into networking and
security systems, which enables customers to accelerate their time to market
and lower engineering costs.
Availability
HPM v2.0 will be available in the second quarter of CY 2006. To
demonstrate the power of HPM content security acceleration capabilities, an
evaluation version is available to prospective customers.
About Hifn
Hifn combines network processing, security, compression, content search,
and flow classification technology into solutions for networking, security and
storage suppliers. Hifn's solutions are deployed in virtually all
market-leading networking and security products. Founded in 1996, Hifn is
headquartered in Los Gatos, California. For more information on Hifn
solutions, please visit: http://www.hifn.com .
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SOURCE Hifn, Inc.
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