Fidelis Cybersecurity and Netgate launch integrated network security solution for AWS hosted applications

Fidelis Cybersecurity and Netgate have introduced an integrated solution that combines Netgate TNSR™ with Fidelis Network sensors to enable advanced visibility, threat detection, and data loss/theft detection for applications and data hosted within Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Netgate’s TNSR Secure Networking Software Platform provides a high-speed network mirror port which directs packet traffic to a Fidelis Network sensor running in AWS that then provides deep visibility across all traffic, ports, and protocols; threat detection and response; and data loss prevention. With TNSR, the full power of Fidelis Network can be deployed within the AWS cloud without performance limitations.

Owing to compelling economics and IT infrastructure flexibility, business and government IT workloads are rapidly transitioning from premises-based data centers to cloud service providers (CSPs).  But challenges arise when CSP compute instances are unable to route network traffic at the speeds required by high-powered threat detection and data loss prevention solutions. In a world where cyber attackers will exploit the slightest weakness for activist, financial, or nation-state gain, traffic inspection speed is vital. But to effectively inspect, traffic has to first be presented to inspection engines without bandwidth or latency constraints. Netgate’s TNSR enables AWS EC2 instances equipped with Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) to deliver high-speed traffic directly to Fidelis Network sensors running in AWS.  With this integration, Fidelis Network can execute the same level of sophisticated threat detection and response performance in the cloud that its customers enjoy on premises.

“Our solutions support government, service provider, and large enterprise security needs where tens of gigabits per second of network traffic must be routinely and reliably examined for cyber threats,” said Tim Roddy, vice president of product management, Fidelis Cybersecurity. “Fidelis Network sensors must perform seamlessly for these customers, regardless of where the inspection point is located. Netgate’s TNSR presents cloud traffic to us without constraint, letting us address customer needs wherever they are with respect to cloud migration.”

“This is the type of business problem we set out to address from the beginning with TNSR,” said Jim Thompson, Netgate CTO.  “High-speed packet processing is hardly new. Providing it at orders of magnitude less cost than six figure vendor-proprietary solutions - and irrespective of deployment location - is new. The possibilities of marrying advanced security stacks, like that of Fidelis Cybersecurity, with the packet processing speed and deployment agility of TNSR are very exciting. Enabling high-speed cloud traffic inspection is just the tip of the iceberg.”