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Aricent enables network security product vendors to deliver solutions that address emerging security challenges such as the Internet threats, attacks variants, evasion, exploits, application vulnerabilities and network infrastructures issues.

Aricent provides specialized technical consulting and R&D software services to build high-performance network security solutions that reduce and prevent emerging security threats.

  • Aricent security products provide key enforcement functions while minimizing development time and costs
  • Aricent’s in-house R&D function develops service differentiators to simplify the overall security solution development and accelerate time-to-market
  • Aricent offers an integrated network security framework for multi-core platforms
  • Aricent provides signature libraries for network-based application classifications and security threats


Services

Aricent teams deliver a range of specialized services for every aspect of the security products development lifecycle, from R&D and testing through rollout and sustenance. Aricent provides end-to-end software services for Unified Threat Management (UTM), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Application Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Gateway Anti-X device, SSL and IPSec VPN appliances.

Advanced Software Services for network perimeter security

The services in this category include:

  • Attack prevention and threat management services
  • Product development for high performance next generation security solutions with multi-core architectures or hardware ASICs
  • Product sustenance with complete software maintenance, field report investigation, release management and feature enhancements.
  • Testing services that include software release testing, integration testing, regression testing and automation.

Attack prevention and threat management

Aricent teams help customers research, develop, test and sustain security products. These services support products that provide attack and intrusion prevention, web security, and threat management.

Application/Protocol Signature detection

  • Pattern-matching, regular expressions and compound signatures
  • Traffic behavior based signatures with interrogative decode
  • Heuristic approaches (based on packet length) for cryptic and encoded captures
  • Reverse engineering on encrypted, obfuscated and adaptive applications
  • DPI to inspect and detect payload file-type with file-format specific rules

Attack Signature detection

  • DDoS attack analysis and correlation solution
  • Vulnerability signature (protocol anomaly) detection services

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) for Application Intelligence

  • Protocol normalization and validation
  • Threat signature detection services

Anti-Virus, Anti-Trojan and Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware detection

  • Anti-phishing, Anti-spam signature detection
  • Bi-directional traffic inspection and filtering for malicious content
  • Advanced testing services for product performance and vulnerability assessment
  • Product performance benchmarking and security feature scalability tests
  • Product assessment for vulnerabilities through our well-designed Black-Box Ethical Hacking tests

Integrated network security framework for multi-core platforms

The open source-based software framework provides Integrated Network Security and DPI functionality APIs, which are customizable for proprietary modules/stacks or open-source security modules across multiple cores with various configurable options such as feature load balancing. Aricent’s open source based framework for Integrated Security and DPI includes:

  • Common modules like session management, application decode, session correlation, statistics, and packet information communication
  • Functional interfaces (API) in security and DPI modules for configuration and customization
  • Customizable Linux and embedded applications components (FCAPS)
  • Configurable framework for load balancing, multi-core feature processing, and customized application modules
  • Readily tested with open source-based security feature modules

 

Reports

Aricent also provides ‘Engineering Reports’ for network-based signature database for application decode, protocol anomaly, and emerging threats and attacks.

Decode Analysis Reports (DAR) with detailed protocol analysis, source-level analysis, signature detection logic, software design approach and the regular-expressions scripts for various protocols and payload file attachments.

  • P2P Security: Filtering BitTorrent, Gnutella, eDonkey, Winny, Skype, and FastTrack
  • Internet Applications: Encrypted SSL Inspection, Web 2.0
  • VoIP Protocols: Skype, SIP, H.323, Megaco
  • File-Types: Graphic Formats, Executables (exe), Spreadsheet, Document (docs, pdf), Compressed File (zip)
  • IM Protocols: AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ

Attack Detection Reports (ADR) with detailed analysis on the attacks, threats and evasion techniques along with detection logic, software design approach and, measure taken to validate false positive and negative.

  • Threats: Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Spyware, Phishing, Adware, Malwares
  • Attacks: DoS, DDoS, Smurf attack, Spoofing, Buffer overflow, SYN flood, Backdoor attacks
  • Evasion: Packet Fragmentation, Stream Segmentation, URL/HTTP Obfuscation
  • Exploits: SQL Injection, Session Hijacking, Parameter Tampering and Cross-Site Scripting

Products

Aricent offers security software products that facilitate the development of wireless and wireline devices. Our products include:

  • Port-based Network Access Control (PNAC) for wireline products
  • 802.11i/Robust Security Network Association (RSNA) for WLAN products

Benefits

  • Reduced time to market with customizable integrated security framework for multi-core platforms
  • Scalable software architecture for SMB/Enterprise and ISPs implementation
  • Ease of integration with existing multi-core devices with routing, switching and L4-L7 functionality
  • Reduced development effort and time with service enabler and skilled resource
  • Signature libraries for network-based application classification and security threats