Expands portfolio with PFS 2200 and PFS 4200 series to scale and
accelerate cybersecurity applications
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 11, 2016--
NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a market leader in service assurance
and cybersecurity solutions, today announced two new products in its
nGenius® Packet
Flow Switch (PFS) family, designed for critical network security
visibility applications. The nGenius PFS 2200 series and nGenius PFS
4200 series, provide 10G and 40G platforms for delivering packet data to
network security systems, launching advanced security-optimized
capabilities in its product line.
“One of the key concerns with network security is performance of
security systems,” said Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst,
ZK Research. “With the NETSCOUT nGenius 2204 and 4204 packet flow
switches reducing processing burden on security systems, organizations
do not have to make a tradeoff between features and performance.”
According to a 2016 study on IT initiatives from business information
provider IHS, almost 2 out of 3 respondents reported that they plan to
implement network visibility and performance monitoring in the next 12
months. Network monitoring is the most important component in the
initiatives aimed at reducing network and communications systems
downtime, which according to IDC costs North American businesses $700
million annually.
Improving network security and reliability are the key drivers for
network monitoring projects, both in service provider and enterprise
environments. As these organizations seek to improve capital and
operating efficiencies, they are under pressure to rationalize network
resources and extend the life of their current investments, rather than
add new network capacity. The expansion of security capabilities within
the NETSCOUT portfolio enables the networking and the security teams to
implement joint security visibility projects, easing the expansion and
adoption of security systems that require access to packet data, such as
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS),
Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS),
and many others.
“Network security is fast becoming an urgent priority as a result of the
rapid proliferation of IT applications and threats,” said Brian McCann,
president, NETSCOUT Packet Flow Switch Business Unit. “NETSCOUT is
pioneering business assurance by combining service assurance and
cybersecurity defenses into a unified solution harnessing IP
intelligence. In doing so, NETSCOUT is helping IT Operations reduce
costs, increase visibility, and spend less time managing their tools.”
The PFS 2204 and 4204 products both support 1G and 10G environments. In
addition, the PFS 4204 product also supports 40G environments and
provides line rate packet de-duplication thereby increasing efficiency
and optimizing packet processing for security systems.
Key security capabilities with the new nGenius PFS 2204 and 4204
products include:
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Active tool chaining: enables deployment of an inline security
infrastructure in a virtual chain, rather than cabling each system
into a physical configuration. The key advantage of the PFS 2204 and
PFS 4204 implementation is the 50% reduction of ports needed and
elimination of complex physical cabling configurations. At the same
time, each device gets exactly the traffic it requires, at the speed
and in the form that it is designed to accommodate.
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Application-level health checks: performs an assessment of the
security system’s functionality with both "negative" and "positive"
health checks, beyond a simple on/off response, ensuring applications
function as expected.
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Policy-based triggers: provides the unique ability to customize
monitoring performance via user-defined mechanisms that trigger
actions related to monitoring, forwarding rules and health status.
Users can specify event policies that trigger certain actions, such as
providing alerts via SNMP and Syslog, forcing ports into down link
status and/or changing traffic forwarding mapping to tools.
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Passive and active hybrid mode: As customers build out security
systems and migrate to large-scale active inspection, hybrid mode
increases the efficiency of those systems and improves their effective
port density by enabling passive and active traffic to be delivered on
a single port. Available on both the PFS 2204 and PFS 4204 products,
hybrid mode enables security systems to more efficiently fuse these
functions within a single deployment that serves both active and
passive traffic.
Availability
The nGenius PFS 2204 and 4204 Packet Flow
Switches are available now. The systems and associated modules are
delivered with all ports active, and all features and applications
supported by the hardware available at no extra charge. Customers
covered under NETSCOUT’s award-winning MasterCare
customer support program enjoy access to supported features and
applications released during the term of their coverage without the
costs and complexity of additional software feature licenses.
To learn more about the nGenius Packet Flow Switches for security
visibility, visit here.
You may also visit us at Cisco Live US 2016 in NETSCOUT booth 647, or in
the Security Partner Village.
About NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC.
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ:
NTCT) is a market leader in real-time service assurance and
cybersecurity solutions for today’s most demanding service provider,
enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive Service
Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service delivery
environment to identify performance issues and provides insight into
network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve issues
that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience. NETSCOUT
delivers virtually unmatched service visibility and
protects the digital infrastructure that supports our connected world.
To learn more, visit www.netscout.com.
Note: Data based on IHS Technology Network Monitoring Equipment Report,
May 2016. Visit www.technology.ihs.com
for more details.
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donna.candelori@NETSCOUT.com