SAN FRANCISCO -- Netronome Systems, the industry’s leading provider of Open Appliance™ systems, today announced the availability of the industry’s highest-performance transparent proxy for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) network communications. The Netronome SSL Inspector™ is designed for security and network appliance manufacturers, enterprise IT organizations and system integrators. The SSL Inspector allows network appliances to be deployed with the highest levels of flow analysis while still maintaining multi-gigabit, line-rate network performance for compliance, NAC and other security applications.

SSL communications constitute a significant and growing percentage of the traffic in enterprise LAN/WAN and service provider networks. The privacy benefits provided by SSL can be overshadowed by the risks it brings to the enterprise network. SSL encryption can prevent IT organizations from ensuring that threats such as viruses, spam and malware are stopped before they reach individual users. Encryption also makes it difficult for network administrators to enforce corporate acceptable-use policies. Regulatory and other compliance requirements, including identifying accidental or intentional leakage of confidential information, are also virtually impossible to meet because of SSL encryption. Existing methods to control SSL include severely limiting its use, preventing its use entirely, or installing SSL proxy solutions that significantly reduce network performance for both SSL and non-SSL traffic.

Until now, managing SSL traffic has proven difficult, but with the Netronome SSL Inspector, users can take advantage of a unique combination of capabilities that removes the risks arising from lack of visibility into SSL traffic while increasing the performance of security and network appliances, including:

The combination of these capabilities provides security and network appliance vendors with a way to increase the performance of their applications, avoid becoming the source of reduced network throughput and expand the scope of their applications to also provide benefits for SSL encrypted traffic.

“Enterprise organizations continue to struggle with the growth of SSL in their networks. Whether trying to comply with corporate and government regulations, or merely trying to preserve the use of existing network and security appliances after SSL has been introduced, the Netronome SSL Inspector delivers a way to meet their IT and network compliance requirements, while preserving the benefits of SSL communications,” said Jarrod Siket, vice president of marketing at Netronome Systems.

Netronome Systems Inc.