Sandvine Launches New Broadband Security Aid

Sandvine Launches New Broadband Security Aid

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

May 16, 2005

1 Min Read
Sandvine Launches New Broadband Security Aid

Sandvine Inc. has rolled out a new security system to help broadband providers fend off increasingly sophisticated and evasive service attacks. The Canadian vendor said the system, known as the Network Security Suite, will help service providers root out and isolate all types of harmful traffic on their broadband data networks, including worms, spam trojan, domain name service (DNS) and denial-of-service attacks. In particular, Sandvine officials said the system will help service providers defend against malicious and accidental attacks from within their subscriber base. With these kinds of attacks on the rise, Sandvine executives argue that residential broadband networks are more vulnerable to such inside assaults than service attacks from outside their networks, especially as they start to offer such cutting-edge services as voice-over-IP (VoIP) and online gaming. The new security system combines Sandvine's 8210 policy traffic switch with attack traffic migration software and security operations software.

About the Author(s)

Alan Breznick

Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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