- Published: 21 February 2012
- Written by NStinchcombe
Support for Napatech intelligent network adapters in latest release of Suricata allows quick and efficient development of high performance 1Gbps, 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
LAFAYETTE, Ind., CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., ANDOVER, Ma., - The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) today announced support in the latest release of Suricata for Napatech intelligent network adapters. This will allow network security equipment vendors to quickly and efficiently build high performance 1Gbps, 10 Gbps and 40 Gbps Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) using off-the-shelf standard servers and Napatech network adapters seamlessly integrated into Suricata based application software.
The support for Napatech network adapters has been contributed by nPulse Technologies, who have demonstrated 10 Gbps IDS/IPS based on Suricata at several shows over the last year. nPulse provided a wrapper library which allows Suricata to automatically recognize the presence of a Napatech adapter, and then to take advantage of its offload and acceleration features, greatly improving IDS/IPS throughput. This performance is now accessible to all OEM vendors who use Napatech intelligent network adapters.
"With the availability of seamless Napatech support in the latest release of Suricata, the components are now in place to provide IDS/IPS vendors with a high performance alternative platform for their development," stated Henrik Brill Jensen, CEO Napatech. "Basing development on off-the-shelf standard servers enables faster time-to-market, lower technical risk and lower total cost of ownership. Napatech intelligent network adapters ensure high IDS/IPS throughput performance, while Suricata ensures efficient, multi-threaded detection making optimal use of high speed multi-core server CPUs."
"Napatech has been a great technology partner and supporter of the Suricata project" says Matt Jonkman, President of the OISF, a non-profit foundation funded by DHS and industry partners like Napatech to build an open-source IDS engine. "Without forward looking and collaborative partners like Napatech Suricata would have never gotten off of the ground. We believe that this partnership of community, open source, government and industry yields open source tools that best serve all involved."
Randy Caldejon, nPulse’s CTO, added; “We have worked closely at an engineering level with both Napatech and OISF for some time. By contributing the integration code as a library, we enable other Suricata users to easily take advantage of the Napatech adapter.”
At the upcoming RSA show at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Napatech will be providing a demonstration of how Suricata can be used to build a 10 Gbps IDS/IPS appliance. The demonstration will be shown on the Napatech stand 1657 at RSA from February the 27th to the 1st of March.
Napatech at RSA 2012 San Francisco – February 27 to March 1, 2012: http://www.napatech.com/news/rsa_san_francisco.html
For more information on Napatech Intelligent Network Adapters please go to: http://www.napatech.com/products/products.html
About Napatech
Napatech is the leading OEM supplier of 40 GbE, 10 GbE and 1 GbE intelligent adapters for real-time network analysis with over 80,000 Ethernet ports deployed. Napatech network adapters provide real-time packet capture and transmission with full line-rate throughput and zero packet loss no matter the packet size. Intelligent features enable off-load of data traffic processing and packet analysis normally performed in the CPU. This results in more processing power for the network monitoring, analysis, management, test, measurement, security or optimization application being supported. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View (CA), Andover (MA), Washington D.C., Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea) and Copenhagen (Denmark).
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About nPulse Technologies, Inc
nPulse Technologies is the performance leader in packet capture, replay, and analysis. Our flagship product, HammerHead, enables customers to perform cost-effective, distributed packet capture at ultrafast speeds up to 20Gbps. The HammerHead platform is being used today by leading financial institutions, government agencies, and telcos to reduce time to resolution and enhance historical analysis for both network operations and security operations. Hammerhead records full Netflow/IPFIX information for all captured traffic and provides a remote web-based flow search and packet decode interface. Through its innovative Pivot2Pcap API, HammerHead extends significantly the visibility of existing monitoring and security solutions.
nPulse Technologies Inc. is a privately held, Veteran-owned business headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. For more information, visit www.npulsetech.com.
About the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF)
The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) is a non-profit foundation organized to build a next generation IDS/IPS engine. The OISF has formed a multi-national group of the leading software developers in the security industry. In addition to developers and a consortium consisting of leading cyber security companies, OISF has engaged the open source security community to identify current and future IDS/IPS needs and desires.
For more information, visit http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/.
