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Acceleration of SSL and TLS is imperative for business competitiveness
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology, have become ubiquitous as enterprises seek to secure their web-based applications. As the demand grows for greater levels of security, the need for SSL/TLS deployment grows as well. However it will consume extreme amounts of CPU horsepower, slowing business processes elsewhere and creating data traffic bottlenecks. But by integrating nCipher SSL / TLS acceleration technology, offloading processing onto dedicated hardware, organizations can achieve greater security without diminishing performance. To learn more about nCipher SSL acceleration solutions, click here.
nCipher offers leading SSL/TLS acceleration solution
nCipher offers several products that help organizations maximize the effectiveness of SSL/ TLS technology without impacting network performance. The nFast Offload Card is a high-performance PCI card designed to replace a server's Network Interface Card. By offloading processing from the application, this device reduces the workload on the server, eliminating the need to provide additional server capacity.
nFast Accelerator is a PCI card that accelerates operations by processing asymmetric cryptography that can otherwise create bottlenecks in performance. This card handles only the most CPU-intensive processing and is usually deployed in environments where swapping out the NIC is not possible or desirable.
The nForce card is another offload solution that has the additional advantage of providing protection for the cryptographic keys that support SSL and TLS security. Like the nFast offload card, nForce also replaces the NIC to offload TLS and SSL processing. As https ciphertext passes through the nForce network interface, it is decrypted and delivered in plaintext TCP/IP. nCipher SSL /TLS acceleration solutions can run on Windows, Solaris or Linux operating systems.
Integrate SSL TLS encryption with other security hardware from nCipher
nCipher provides an array of cryptographic hardware security solutions for the enterprise. nCipher's hardware security modules conform with FIPS-140 standards and assist with the protection, management and security of the cryptographic keys that are crucial for encryption, document signing and digital rights management. nCipher's Time Stamp Server allows enterprises to integrate secure digital signatures and time stamping into applications throughout the organization. And nCipher's Classified Document Security Server provides a comprehensive solution for document signing, time stamping and encryption.
nCipher also provides solutions and support for database encryption, file encryption, application encryption, PCI data security, public key encryption, RFC 3161-compliant time stamping, and more.
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