Wedge Networks has launched the Cloud Network Defense (CND), said to be a radical new means to deliver high levels of cyber security – on demand and closely tailored to business or individual security needs. CND presents an opportunity for service providers to grow their portfolio and generate sustainable added revenue.
“CND will transform the way security is delivered,” said Dr. Hongwen Zhang, president and CEO of Wedge Networks. “It is a cloud based software platform leveraging SDN and NFV technology to perform what we call Elastic Security Services Orchestration. Our software makes it easy for service providers to offer embedded security as a scalable, high performance service for cloud connected networks. Web, email and mobile security policy can now be unified and optimized across all network traffic and all devices, anytime, anywhere”.
CND is a radical departure from current security technologies that rely on proprietary hardware or require security providers to direct traffic to third party infrastructure for inspection – causing delays and adding latency. CND integrates Deep Content Inspection (DCI) and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) with advanced software to direct and load-balance computing resources – including spawning off and ‘shrinking’ instances, which normally executes in hardware. The result is comprehensive, scalable and customizable real time security – without requiring traffic to leave the network. The Wedge approach takes advantage of cloud computing architecture that offers scalability, elasticity (dynamic reallocation per demand), ubiquitous availability, and high capacity for the cloud centric networks of today and into the future.
“Imagine being able to phone your service provider call center and ask for whatever security services you might need – anti-malware, anti-spam, parental control, whatever,” said Steve Chappell, EVP for sales and marketing, and COO. “The call center enables the service on the spot, and the fee appears on your next bill. It’s a terrific service for business or the individual user, and an exceptional opportunity for the provider to increase revenue and enhance customer loyalty.”
“Small and medium size businesses face the same cyber threats as their enterprise peers, yet they have stiffer budget constraints for managed security services to assist in defending attacks from cyber miscreants,” according to Frank Dickson, Research Director with Frost & Sullivan, “Wedge Networks Cloud Network Defense empowers managed security service providers to deliver robust security services to small and medium size business by leveraging a scalable and effective technology platform, moving away from a security professional staff centric approach. As a result, managed security service providers can profitably deliver effective and reliable managed security services needed by small and medium businesses.”
Wedge Networks is considered a leader in real-time network security solutions for enterprises and service providers. The company’s patented WedgeOS platform provides the next generation security infrastructure to detect, protect against, and control threats, information leaks, and allows future security functions to run on the network. Hardware appliances and Software systems running on WedgeOS are deployed globally, delivering security protection for tens of millions of users in Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, internet service providers, and across all industry verticals. Wedge Networks is headquartered in Calgary, Canada and has international offices in Sunnyvale, USA and Beijing, China.
