TechGuard Security, a cyber-security company that was created to U.S Federal Government defense initiatives, recently intended to spread its PoliWall security appliance beyond the borders of the U.S.
It wanted to take its product global. However, as it says in a UNICOM (News - Alert) blog post printed this month, TechGuard was having a hard time deciding which hardware vendor it could trust to build new appliances that would both work internationally and could handle the demands of the TechGuard's specifications. TechGuard had previously worked with an engineering company called NEI (News - Alert) which is now known as UNICOM Engineering, and after considering the state of the matter, UNICOM said, TechGuard determined that its relationship with the manufacturer showed that it was capable of meeting the demands of the international rollout.
After making the decision to work with UNICOM, TechGuard created the Bandura brand to market its IT service. David Maestas, the Bandura CTO, spoke in the blog post about UNICOM's unique fit for his company's needs.
"UNICOM Engineering had the platforms we needed to be able to support our new high-throughput product up to 20G per second," Maestas said. "The fact that the platforms were already pre-certified for export and for sale in the U.S. was a huge bonus for us."
Maestas’ reference to the 20 Gbps is itself a reference to the way in which the appliance works. PoliWall acts as a buffer between firewalls and routers that sit at the network edge. At that edge, it blocks malicious traffic, and as a ZDNet article about the technology suggests, PoliWall allows businesses to block traffic from varying sources through a central portal.
TechGuard CEO Suzanne Magee spoke about how her company developed the High-speed Internet Protocol Packet Inspection Engine (HIPPIE) to filter traffic and determine, in only milliseconds, which traffic is good and which is bad. Companies can decide with which countries of origin they want to communicate, so they can simply block or allow certain IP addresses with a single click.
The Bandura website confirms that the HIPPIE engine can filter traffic with almost zero latency, and the hardware's ability to work at a high throughput, but with a small footprint, makes it easy and cost-effective for businesses -- even small and midsize businesses -- to handle because they do not need to sacrifice a lot of power just to block malicious addresses.
TechGuard says UNICOM was able to build a unit that, through its efficient but detailed manufacturing process, allows the PoliWall appliance to come to market quickly yet also sports high component life, energy efficiency, and regulatory requirements. This has reportedly been a positive endeavor for TechGuard, and businesses appear to be benefiting as well from the partnership that is now reaching internationally.