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. We discovered when distributed service-denial attacks began in earnest last year that it was simple to make the architecture respond to the attacks, said Mark Roy, senior director of marketing. About two weeks of programming resulted in what Roy called a better mousetrap. AppSwitch identifies common service-denial attacks before they hit the firewall.
Suspicious traffic goes to decoy servers.
The switch can do load balancing and distribute data to multiple intrusion detection systems. We re looking at 512 bytes at a time rather than at each byte serially, said Ben A. Bittle, VHB s senior vice president for product development. Inc. All rights reserved.