Ixia strengthens its Network Security and Visibility with Active SSL
Ixia has announced the addition of its Active SSL technology to its SecureStack feature set, a key component of the company’s Security and Visibility Intelligence Framework. Active SSL enables organizations to see inside traffic encrypted with ephemeral key to ensure the security of their networks.
Ixia has expanded the company’s SecureStack feature with its Active SSL technology, which interoperates with all other stack features including identification and filtering, deduplication, and time stamping. The solution, which can be used for inline or out-of-band deployments, has a dedicated cryptographic processor, as well as built-in reporting and policies that provide leading cipher support, real-time insights, and SSL inspection.
Active SSL also provides forward secrecy to protect past and future data exchanges with ephemeral keys. With Ixia’s Active SSL, ephemeral key traffic is unencrypted, inspected, and then re-encrypted through an intuitive, easy-to-use platform, before being returned to the network.
Key customer benefits of Ixia’s new Active SSL capability include:
Purpose-built to offload the encryption overhead from security tools, improving overall performance
• Offers 1, 2, 4, and 10G capacity options
• Includes a dedicated cryptographic processor
• Provides inline and out-of-band capabilities
• Compatible with all Ixia visibility intelligence filtering capabilities
“Encryption is a double-edged sword for networks. While it allows for the protection of data from nefarious actors, it also enables the same nefarious actors to hide their activity from monitoring tools and the IT professionals deploying them. Ixia’s Active SSL can be used to decrypt data once, and then allow processing by as many tools as needed, improving speed and latency of security solutions,” said Scott Register, Vice-President of Product Management, Ixia.
Ixia’s Active SSL will be available via a high-performance application module that is compatible with the company’s Vision ONE network packet broker, a turnkey device that provides high-performance, lossless visibility.
Ixia’s Vision ONE network packet broker enables organizations to maintain security as well as identify and resolve performance problems across physical and virtual infrastructures from a single platform. Whether fighting against threats hidden in encrypted traffic, or feeding the right data to the right forensic solution, Vision ONE boosts network protection without negatively impacting performance.
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