NitroSecurity Turbo-Charges NitroGuard Intrusion Prevention Systems; Introduces New 10-Gigabit NitroGuard 5000

Innovations in software acceleration enable low-cost, high-throughput evolution
of the Company's award-winning IPS product
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(Business Wire)--
NitroSecurity, Inc., a long-time innovator of intrusion prevention solutions,
has introduced new core technology into its popular NitroGuard Intrusion
Prevention Systems (IPS) for the protection of critical 10-Gigabit network
links.

Now NitroGuard IPS provides enterprises with the benefit of intrusion prevention
and network flow collection at active throughputs of up to five Gigabits per
second, while reducing the cost and limitations typically associated with
hardware-based acceleration.

As the number and variety of security attacks continue to multiply, including
viruses, worms, spyware, Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and zero day threats,
enterprises need a solid line of defense to detect, analyze and block attacks in
real time. The new 10-Gigabit NitroGuard IPS 5000 operates at exceptional
throughput speeds, with a high number of concurrent sessions, while at the same
time analyzing security events, logs, network behavior and flow data for
anomalies. Using the industry's fastest data management engine, NitroGuard is
able to return queries and analytics in seconds, even on massive amounts of
historical data and without affecting NitroGuard's ability to continue
processing new events.

"We're tying performance to the processor," said Salo Fajer, chief strategy
officer of NitroSecurity. "As processors continue to improve exponentially year
after year, we can expect the capability of our architecture and products to
improve as well." In addition to acceleration of its intrusion detection engine,
the NitroGuard architecture received full multi-thread support, and optimization
of all levels of computing I/O, improving overall performance and scalability.
"We're offering hardware-based performance, but in a flexible and highly
scalable software-based system," said Fajer.

In addition to its speed, NitroGuard IPS provides advanced threat detection
techniques through its integration with NitroView ESM, the Company`s security
information and event management system. As a result, information security
professionals can monitor and protect core network connections with NitroGuard`s
combination of IPS, firewall and network flow collection capabilities, achieving
a true defense-in-depth security strategy and improving overarching security
management operations.

With this release, improvements in throughput will also be seen across all
current-generation NitroGuard IPS appliances after a software upgrade. The
NitroGuard 5000 offers either four 10-Gigabit interfaces, or 12 1-Gigabit
interfaces. The NitroGuard 5000 was released earlier this year and is generally
available at this time.

About NitroSecurity

NitroSecurity develops security information and compliance management solutions
that protect business information and infrastructure. NitroSecurity solutions
reduce business risk exposure and increase network and information availability
by removing the scalability and performance limitations of security information
management. Utilizing the industry`s fastest analytical tools, NitroSecurity
identifies correlates and remediates threats in minutes instead of hours,
allowing organizations to quickly mitigate risks to the organization`s
information and infrastructure. NitroSecurity serves more than 500 enterprises
across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial
services, government, retail, hospitality and managed services. For more
information, please visit nitrosecurity.com.

NitroSecurity
Eric D Knapp, 603-570-3923
eknapp@nitrosecurity.com

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