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Hifn Delivers MeterFlow (TM) v7.0 for Enhanced Security Policy Enforcement
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SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA Conference, Feb. 14 / -- Network- and storage-security market leader Hifn(TM) (NASDAQ:HIFN) announced today the availability of MeterFlow version 7.0 flow classification software package with support for enhanced security policy enforcement. The new MeterFlow package recognizes and correlates applications and users to their corresponding data flows and network traffic providing customers a higher level of visibility into stateful flow processing service applications. MeterFlow solves emerging problems facing networking vendors, such as identifying hard-to-track applications, isolating exact users of network applications, and enhancing security.
End-customers use the new MeterFlow application information to enhance policy enforcement and increase security capabilities in appliances deployed throughout the network. MeterFlow's patented technology extensively analyzes application-specific data in real time, allowing it to determine the content and identify the application of each packet as well as the relationships between packets and network users. MeterFlow v7.0 also provides superior tracking of protocol connections over both IPv4 and IPv6, dynamically, as network sessions are created for complex protocols used in applications such as VoIP, IM, and P2P.
"MeterFlow is very important to our customers who use the information to offer a new breed of layer 7-aware network security appliances and LAN infrastructure equipment," said Robert Friend, director of product marketing at Hifn. "The deeper, more granular application visibility provided by MeterFlow is critical for enhanced policy enforcement. MeterFlow is the ideal solution for the new Unified Threat Management (UTM) network security and network access control appliances, as well as supporting the growing number of voice, multimedia and interactive applications."
In the emerging interactive networking applications like peer-to-peer (P2P), security appliances need to identify the P2P protocols in order to limit and control their use of network resources as well as block rogue content that permeates firewalls, such as malware, viruses, and worms. To assist firewalls, MeterFlow features heuristic flow classification capabilities in order to track peer to peer protocols that perform port hopping. Furthermore, MeterFlow helps identify HTTP-tunneled P2P protocols by leveraging MeterFlow's HTTP content classification capabilities.
In LAN Security applications, MeterFlow enhances layer 7 controls by providing direct control information to UTM appliance applications, allowing the security control system to recognize normal application behaviors in network traffic. For example, MeterFlow identifies the file transfer type and the associated data type of an IM session or the HTTP traffic type and precise network connections of a web application during the negotiation, and prior to the start of each session. This allows the UTM appliance to protect the LAN from malicious known and unknown malware by filtering potentially nefarious network traffic from innocuous flows by individual application sessions.
Hifn also provides MeterFlow Performance Metrics, a powerful software package, designed to collect precise statistics for each unique user-based application flow. While collecting each statistic, MeterFlow Performance Metrics also measures 29 metrics of flow performance such as, jitter, application response times, connection response times, routing metrics, and traffic metrics useful for SLA verification and RMON-2 agents.
Availability
MeterFlow v7.0 and MeterFlow Performance Metrics are available now. MeterFlow v7.0 is backwards compatible with previous versions of MeterFlow. Customers interested in evaluating MeterFlow's powerful application and protocol recognition capabilities can request an evaluation version from their local sales representative.
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: www.hifn.com/ .
Source: Hifn, Inc.
CONTACT: Hifn, Inc. Corporate Communications, +1-408-399-3500, or press@hifn.com
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