Latest news for Syphan Technologies

Syphan seeks to raise investment to accelerate its research and development programme

(14/05/2010)

With increasing numbers of companies building high-speed networks to help optimise their core business operations and taking advantage of the cost savings on offer by adopting new Internet-based voice and video conferencing technology, there has been a massive up-swing in demand for a new level of security products that can operate effectively in this environment. Syphan Technologies has announced a bid to raise an additional £1 million in in... [more]

Syphan announces strategic partnership with GovAssure for the US government and military market

(22/10/2009)

Syphan Technologies has announced a strategic partnership agreement with GovAssure, the government division of Rock Island Networks. GovAssure designs, builds and supports robust networks for US Federal Government agencies using best-of-breed technologies. Syphan’s technology provides a high-performance platform for the delivery of multiple security services to protect networks from the increasingly sophisticated attacks targeted at large-sca... [more]

Protecting networks from DDoS attacks

(16/10/2009)

Pravin Mirchandani, CEO of Syphan Technologies, looks at the continuing problems caused by distributed denial-of-service attacks, DDoS, and suggests that new cloud based mitigation services may be round the corner: In my experience very few people would dream of operating their businesses without taking out adequate insurance protection against everything from an act of God to a bad debt. Yet many of these companies still choose to leave thei... [more]

MSPs need to protect their network infrastructure in the wake of the Amazon DDoS attack

(15/10/2009)

This weekend, Amazon came under a DDoS attack, which resulted in a 16-hour non-availability of Bitbucket’s open source data storage service. The DDoS attack was initially blamed on the fact that the Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a shared service and that customers have to expect performance fluctuations, before admitting that the Amazon infrastructure had been taken down by a massive UDP flood. Syphan Technologies is urging the world’s leading ... [more]

Syphan ITC220 network security appliance delivers true 10G performance

(12/06/2009)

Syphan Technologies's ITC220 network security appliance uses FPGA technology and multi-dimensional parallel processing techniques to deliver True 10G performance through the box with total IP inspection up to layer 7 without latency. Capable of supporting up to 50,000 field-upgradable inspection rules and over 500 virtualised customer profiles, the ITC220 is fully extensible and scalable to provide total protection against the full array of ... [more]

Syphan Technologies supports Bradford University research into techniques to detect the latest multi-staged stealth attacks

(25/03/2009)

Syphan Technologies, which has developed high-speed threat protection technology, has agreed to provide financial and technical support for a new research project based at Bradford University’s School of Informatics. The project, code named SINBIN, is focussed on developing new inspection techniques that are capable of detecting the latest multi-staged stealth attacks. These are increasingly being used to get round widely used point-security m... [more]

New high-speed security technologies to be the catalyst for cloud-based security services

(23/01/2009)

The term Security-as-a Service was first coined by the marketing folks at McAfee in 2001 to describe their vision of an outsourced approach to the provisioning and management of the full range of anti-X technologies needed to maintain corporate security, via the Internet. From a technical and business perspective, the idea of being able to devolve the responsibility for keeping complex network infrastructures secure and threat–free, to third par... [more]

 

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