netHSMSSL Security
SSL security poses challenges for competitive organizations
While SSL security has emerged as an important technology for protecting critical data at the transport layer, it presents several challenges for organizations seeking to maintain flexibility and speed. First, SSL processing can consume large amounts of server capacity, penalizing server performance and slowing the speed of other vital business processes. A second challenge involves providing security for a server's private SSL key which proves its identity and helps decrypt traffic. With unauthorized access to a private key, an attacker can destroy the authenticity of your service, spoof a legitimate Web site, hack data in transport, eavesdrop on secure data exchanges and steal PINs and passwords and other valuable information. nCipher addresses these challenges with hardware accelerators for SSL security. To learn more click here.
nCipher delivers powerful, cost-effective SSL security solution
nCipher nForce™ is a tamper-resistant offload card designed to solve the dual challenges of SSL security. This robust PCI card allows organizations to offload the intensive cryptographic processing and protocol handling needed to set up SSL security on an IP network. Effectively replacing the NIC on the host server, nForce efficiently handles encrypted data while allowing non-SSL traffic to pass through transparently. nForce can process up to 10,000 transactions per second, optimizing network performance, relieving bottlenecks, and allowing security administrators to deploy SSL security widely across the enterprise without fear of reducing network performance. nForce also delivers protection for the cryptographic keys that are so critical to SSL security. nForce has been designed to be tamper-resistant and has been validated to the FIPS 140-2 standard. And because all operations are terminated on this PCI card, integration with platforms running Windows, Solaris or Linux is simple, providing a secure subsystem within a server for better management and protection of cryptographic keys.
Other SSL security products from nCipher
nCipher offers additional solutions for managing SSL security. nFast SSL Offload Card is a high performance PCI card that offloads processing from the application and translates https ciphertext to plaintext TCP/IP. This nCipher product helps relieve processing burden and can handle 10,000 transactions per second, with a combined throughput of 600 Mbps. For situations where swapping out the network interface card is not workable, the nFast SSL Accelerator allows organizations to cost-efficiently improve server performance and can handle up to 500 transactions per second.
In addition to SSL-accelerator.html technology, nCipher also delivers solutions for file encryption, key management server, Microsoft PKI, RFC3161-compliant time stamping hardware, and hardware security module technology.
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