The company has sold 35 AppSwitches to federal agencies, mostly in the Defense Department. Ariz. Meanwhile, VHB has lined up 18 beta users for the VHB-2000 at NASA, the Navy and other DOD sites. The AppSwitch uses proprietary application-specific integrated circuits to examine bytes in all seven OSI layers at rates up to 900 Mbps. It records details for forensic investigations and for setting security policies. AppSwitch identifies common service-denial attacks before they hit the firewall.
Suspicious traffic goes to decoy servers.
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