The technology, a content inspection co-processor chip, can improve the performance of any application that requires pattern matching all the way up the protocol stack, SafeNet VP of worldwide sales Prakash Panjwani said.
Panjwani said: We’re going to focus on IDS because that’s where the performance issues are today. He added that the technology always works at wire speed, no matter how many inspection rules are in play.
The company has released the SafeXcel-4850 chip, by itself and on a PCI board for easy integration into OEMs’ appliances. The special sauce is a regular expression compiler for transferring the application’s rules to the chip.
SafeNet, best-known for its widely used VPN chips and software, claims that the offering is the industry’s first full regular expression processing engine offered in silicon. Panjwani said it is currently in testing with OEMs in the internet security space.
Source: Computerwire
