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Fidelis Security Systems and CloudShield Technologies have announced the two companies have signed a marketing agreement to offer customers Fidelis’ data breach prevention applications running today on CloudShield’s high performance BladeCenter solution, with expansion to next generation cyber platforms over time. The combination of CloudShield’s Deep Packet Inspection platform and Fidelis’ Deep Session Inspection technology gives commercial enterprises, government agencies and Internet service providers the power to defend against today’s advanced threats and helps prevent data breaches with real-time network analysis, visibility, and control at network speeds up to tens of Gigabits per second.

“Every day commercial enterprises and government agencies are being targeted by financially and politically motivated adversaries using attacks of ever increasing sophistication whose goal is to steal valuable, sensitive, or classified information,” said John Pescatore, Vice President, Gartner. “Network security professionals need to evolve their protections to provide better visibility and control over applications and content that is traversing their networks. Today’s threats require more proactive “lean forward” network security monitoring and control.”

The Fidelis-CloudShield solution is a network based security solution designed to give network security administrators comprehensive visibility and control over network applications, content, and threats. Deployed at the network perimeter or at boundary points between zones of control or different levels of trust in the core of the network, the solution assists network security professionals to visualize, analyze, and contain advanced persistent threats and detect or prevent the unauthorized transfer of sensitive or classified information. The solution leverages the strengths of CloudShield’s Deep Packet Inspection technology and Fidelis’ Deep Session Inspection technology to scale up to tens of Gigabits of throughput in a single chassis.

“As many of today’s attacks are custom-designed for a particular target organization and have never been seen before the day they are launched, traditional network defenses such as firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and web and email security gateways provide a necessary first line of defense, but are not capable of preventing these sophisticated attacks or the theft of information that results from them,” said Matt Jones, president of CloudShield Technologies. “With the combination of our technologies, Deep Packet Inspection and Deep Session Inspection, we are helping provide organizations with the most credible defense against advanced threats.”

The combined solution is currently available for demonstration and evaluation and will be generally available for production deployment in Q2 2011. Use cases for the solution include:

• Advanced threat management - Investigation, tracking, analysis, and containment of advanced persistent threats;
• Data breach prevention - Protection of sensitive information from inadvertent or malicious extrusion, extraction or consumption over any port/protocol including trade secrets, intellectual property, classified information, operational security information (OPSEC), personal identity information (PII), electronic protected health information (ePHI) and more;
• Intelligent network forensics - Selective capture, recording, and analysis of events of interest for security purposes to aid in proactive situational awareness and incident response.

“This is arguably the highest performing, deep application and content inspection solution in the industry today,” said Peter George, CEO of Fidelis Security Systems. “The bench strength of our combined technologies gives organizations a viable weapon to use in their ongoing battle against sophisticated threats and advanced, persistent threat actors.”