View PDF versionPacketMotion Enhances Compliance and Internal Threat Solutions with New SSL Inspection Product
Industry’s Highest-performance Transparent Decryption Appliance for SSL-Encrypted Business Critical Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif. – January 12, 2010 – PacketMotion™ today announced the extension of its User Activity Management solution, PacketSentry™, to include deep analysis of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-encrypted traffic with the release of the Transparent SSL Inspector 2000 appliance.
"Originally developed for securing communications over the Internet, SSL now constitutes a growing percentage of internal enterprise traffic,” said Paul Smith, CEO of PacketMotion. “However, its privacy benefit creates a lack of visibility into employee activity inside the firewall, creating a virtual ‘black hole’ that is unacceptable for meeting compliance and audit requirements. The PacketSentry Transparent SSL Inspector 2000 tracks user activity in detail, supporting audit and compliance controls with no risk to application availability.”
As more Web-based business applications become in-scope for audits and compliance, enterprise IT teams must increasingly track user activity in detail for reporting purposes. Typically, these applications lack sufficient transaction-logging capabilities. Or, IT administrators choose not to enable intrinsic detailed logging functionality because of the intolerable impact to these have on application performance. A network solution is generally preferable, but the encryption of SSL and its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS), of the application web interface prevents extraction of the necessary transaction-level details.
When deployed with PacketSentry, the Transparent SSL Inspector 2000 decodes encrypted traffic at LAN speeds (up to 1 Gbps) without being in-line, enabling full user activity tracking and auditing without impacting application performance or adding availability risk. It is designed for high-performance intranet applications, to provide full visibility to internal, business-critical applications on physical or virtual platforms.
Priced at $23,990, the Transparent SSL Inspector 2000 is available now, and is sold directly by PacketMotion and its authorized resellers in the U.S. and internationally. For more product information, visit www.packetmotion.com.
About PacketMotion
PacketMotion’s User Activity Management (UAM) solutions enable mid- to large-sized enterprises to simplify and lower the cost of meeting their compliance/audit requirements (PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA, etc.) while delivering security functionality such as the ability to immediately stop user behavior that violates internal policies. A Gartner “Cool Vendor” company, PacketMotion combines patent-pending software with massive computing power to monitor individual user activity at the application level. The PacketSentry™ appliance operates out of band with no impact on network performance, and it installs in less than one day, typically reducing compliance-related capital and operating costs by as much as 80 percent compared to a suite of siloed tools. For more information, visit www.packetmotion.com.
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