netHSMSSL Accelerator
An SSL accelerator improves network productivity
Today businesses require powerful but efficient technology to secure the electronic data exchanged between organizations. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology has become the defacto technology for communication over the Internet and internal networks, but this approach can be highly processor-intensive if performed strictly via software. The nCipher hardware accelerator is the answer. The SSL accelerator offloads Secure Sockets Layer processing from the host system, providing more server resources for business services and reducing operating costs by minimizing the need for additional servers and software licenses. To learn more about how SSL accelerator click here.
nCipher offers innovative SSL accelerator
nCipher's SSL accelerator products provide greater security for the organization while reducing costs and minimizing burden on network traffic. nCipher's technology can be used to deploy Secure Sockets Layer security with any networked application, delivering encryption and decryption services between remote clients and local servers. nCipher's nFast and nForce PCI cards deliver high-performance functionality, allowing organizations to create an SSL or TLS connection over an IP network. Using an Ethernet interface, these SSL accelerator and offload cards replace the current network interface on the host server. As encrypted data arrives, the nCipher cards decrypt it and pass it to the host. Traffic passing back to the network is encrypted when necessary while non-SSL traffic passes through transparently. The nCipher products can support up to 10,000 new SSL/TLS connections per second, and symmetric SSL data throughput up to 300 Mb per second.
Choose the right accelerator for optimized SSL deployment
nCipher's robust SSL accelerator products include:
- nFast Offload Card. Offloading all SSL processing from applications, this high performance PCI cad translates https ciphertext into plaintext TCP/IP, delivering a comprehensive SSL subsystem for applications running on Windows, Linux or Solaris.
- nFast Accelerator. Where substitution of the NIC is not the best solution, this PCI card improves performance by processing asymmetric cryptography that is often the source of deleterious performance bottlenecks.
- nForce. This tamper-resistant card, independently validated to U.S. and Canadian FIPS 140-2 standards, minimizes the burden of SSL processing in virtually any server environment. By implementing best practice security for the cryptographic keys at the heart of SSL security, nForce enables organizations to achieve heightened security while minimizing cost and burden on the network.
nCipher also provides solutions for Windows PKI, timestamping, host security module hardware, encryption software, data protection software, and key management solutions.
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