Intoto India R&D develops intrusion prevention systems
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 18 May 2004, 19:30 IST
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YDERABAD: Intoto Software., the R&D arm of Intoto Inc., a leading provider of integrated security, wireless and voice software platforms to networking equipment manufacturers, has announced that its team of engineers have created the next generation intrusion prevention systems based on Intoto’s patent pending application-aware Inline IPSTM technology. IntruPro provides greater intrusion detection accuracy for reduced false positives and higher performance than traditional IDS and IPS approaches. The IntruPro solution integrated in a security appliance from Infnis, Inc. was demonstrated at the Networld+Interop tradeshow in Las Vegas last week. IntruPro is truly a complete IPS solution, providing not only the integrated IPS sensor, but also a complete management application, signature updates and a certification service. “IntruPro enables fast time-to-market because it is a complete and easy to integrate solution,” said Sathyan Iyengar, president and CEO of Intoto, Inc. “The IntruPro solution brings a new level of protection to Intoto’s industry leading iGateway platform , a comprehensive communications gateway software suite that includes state-of-the-art VPN and Firewall functionality. The product was completely designed and developed by our team of engineers at Intoto Software India which has been playing very strategic and successful role in our new product roll-outs” The IntruPro solution can be integrated into almost any security appliance architecture because the embedded IPS sensor software is flexible. To speed time to market, the IntruPro sensor has been pre-integrated with leading embedded operating systems as well as many popular processors and SoCs, including Intel Architecture processors such as the Intel Pentium 4 processor for enterprise-class performance requirements, and the Intel IXP4XX network processor product line for SME level performance. "IntruPro solution with the sensor, manager and signature updates is a complete solution for the OEMs", said Mr. S N Murthy, President & COO of Intoto Software (I) Pvt. Ltd. "I am very proud of our engineers in Intoto India who have been consistently delivering high quality products in key focus technology areas" The IntruPro Solution The IntruPro solution includes both platform software and value-added services. The platform software includes both the IntruPro integrated sensor that runs embedded in a network security appliance and the IntruPro manager package which is a sophisticated configuration and forensic analysis tool. Real-time signature updates from a central server and system certification are two Intoto services that complete the IntruPro solution. "IPS is an essential element in enterprise security and Intoto is extending the networking OEM’s ability to roll out an advanced IPS solution," said Charles Kolodgy, research director at IDC. "Intoto's IntruPro IPS combines signature and anomaly (protocol and traffic) detection sensor components, but they also include management software and a signature update service that frees the OEM from that task." Page 1 of 2 The IntruPro services provide value in the form of added confidence. The IntruPro signature update service does not rely solely on publicly available open source signatures as many SNORT-based IDS/IPS systems do. Intoto’s team of dedicated engineers continually develop signatures for new attacks by combining custom-developed signatures with hand-optimized open-source signatures. As OEMs complete the integration of IntruPro, Intoto thoroughly tests each new system for quality and robustness to ensure the integrity of the IntruPro marque. Patent-pending IPS Technology The IntruPro solution is powered by Intoto’s Inline IPSTM technology, which is based on a unique application-aware architecture. Stateful application engines and a combination of advanced detection techniques enable a high level of accuracy while simultaneously boosting performance. The Inline IPS architecture leverages the benefits of both signature based techniques and anomaly based detection to provide both intrusion detection and intrusion protection. The Inline IPS technology uses sophisticated transport and application intelligence to classify traffic based on protocol/application state, service type and traffic direction. The architecture tracks the state of the session by employing network, transport and application protocol engines. Application intelligence minimizes packet processing because only relevant rules need to be checked. This dramatically boosts the performance over traditional pattern matching and anomaly correlation techniques. The result is high detection accuracy with a minimum to zero false positives. Product Availability IntruPro is available now to OEMs. Intoto recently conducted demonstrations of the IntruPro solution running on Infnis’ Soligate and a security appliance from Dlink India at the Networld+Interop conference in Las Vegas, May 11-13th, 2004. For more information on IntruPro, please go to www.intrupro.com.

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