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Modern Network Security: The Migration to Deep Packet Inspection
White Papers This system is based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, where the appliance has the brains and the horsepower to inspect every byte of every packet, even across multiple thousands of streams of packets.
[March 8, 2006, 0:01]
Nokia Siemens denies Iran web snoop
Blog Nokia Siemens has denied providing deep packet inspection capabilities to the Iranian authorities, following an article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. However, Roome told ZDNet UK on Monday that Nokia Siemens had in no way provided deep...
[June 22, 2009, 17:32]
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection, a technique used to monitor traffic on the internet and other communications networks. Speaking at a House of Lords event on the 20th anniversary of the...
[March 11, 2009, 15:11]
Virgin Media to monitor traffic for file-sharing
News The company announced on Thursday that it would perform a trial of deep packet inspection technology from Detica to gauge the levels of unlawful file-sharing on its network, on behalf of music companies and other rights holders.
[November 26, 2009, 14:14]
High Performance Network Security
White Papers Unlike traditional devices like firewalls which examine packet headers alone, an IPS examines the entire packet - called deep packet inspection - and is capable of detecting and blocking application level attacks such as the Blaster worm that...
[February 8, 2008, 0:16]
Constricted Internet Connections
Blog To the user within those borders the effect of remote server congestion is the same as local government deep packet inspection. For any given connection speed to an ISP there will be an constriction of data that can vary due to: where the data is...
[June 29, 2009, 11:32]
Spooks get cagey over DPI
Blog Will CSPs be expected to perform deep packet inspection to effect the monitoring of traffic data? Have 'black boxes' been installed at key points on the communications infrastructure by CSPs, to perform deep packet inspection?
[May 5, 2009, 17:51]
ISPs, lawmakers debate ad-privacy regulations
News In describing the deep-packet inspection of a user's internet traffic, Sohn compared it to a postal worker ripping open a user's mail. Deep-packet inspection is the internet equivalent of the postal service reading your mail.
[September 26, 2008, 10:14]
Gov't may track all UK Facebook traffic
News Deep packet inspection, the second strand of the IMP, involves intercepting and examining the contents of all data packets that flow over a network. The IMP has two strands: that the government use deep packet inspection to monitor the web...
[March 18, 2009, 13:25]
Experts: Gov't web-monitoring plan is unworkable
News The government has proposed that ISPs use deep packet inspection, in which every data packet is opened and examined, to derive a picture of who is communicating with whom at any one time. In the report, Sommer and Hosein wrote that the devices used...
[June 18, 2009, 12:34]
Schneier: Steps to combat file-sharing are misguided
News There are numerous organisations using deep packet inspection at the moment, for reasons ranging from law enforcement to behavioural advertising. Do you think using deep packet inspection for behavioural advertising is necessary?
[December 9, 2009, 12:24]
Nortel and Symantec prepare network security product
News This began last December when the two companies started working on a "prototype security engine" which used deep packet inspection to identify viruses and other malicious code. Deep packet inspection looks at all of the data within packets entering...
[September 20, 2005, 18:00]
Gov't outlines Facebook monitoring plans
News The home secretary also told ZDNet UK that the consultation period would take in other details, such as the level of deep packet inspection that would be required. Deep packet inspection is already used by the industry," Smith said.
[April 27, 2009, 13:01]
To truly hide, stream encryption is not the key (no pun intended)
Talkback The type of Torrent user encryption you describe is to limit Deep Packet Inspection and subsequent throttling (More a current US problem). It is easy to find file sharers in spite of this: Load up your favourite torrent client, open a torrent and...
[December 4, 2009, 19:31]
Discoverer: Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering From Network Traces
White Papers Application-level protocol specifications are useful for many security applications, including intrusion prevention and detection that performs deep packet inspection and traffic normalization, and penetration testing that generates network inputs...
[May 31, 2007, 1:00]
Naive? Me?
Talkback Naive though is a view that we *need* deep packet inspection to be employed to afford our speedy data connection. Welcome "UKGUY" - good of you to join to put an alternative (all be it a minority) view!
[December 17, 2008, 15:50]
Good Times Restaurants Turns to eSoft to Take the Bite Out of Internet Threats
White Papers Designed for the most demanding network environments, the InstaGate PRO is based on a high-powered Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Firewall and IPSec VPN engine. Good Times Restaurants, Inc.founded in 1987, develops, owns, operates and franchises...
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
Interaction Between Nokia Intrusion Prevention and Nokia Firewall
White Papers Firewall's deep packet inspection capabilities are not as strong as an Intrusion Prevention solution. However, inherently firewalls need to allow SMTP/email, FTP, SIP/VoIP calls and other protocols with minimal payload security inspection.
[June 25, 2008, 1:01]
Interaction Between: Nokia Intrusion Prevention and Nokia Firewall
White Papers A firewall's deep-packet inspection capabilities are not as strong as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). However, firewalls inherently need to allow SMTP/email, FTP, SIP/VoIP calls, and other protocols with minimal payload security inspection...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Application-Layer Filtering in ISA Server 2004
White Papers ISA Server 2000 moves beyond the limitations of traditional packet-filtering firewalls to perform deep application-layer content inspection. ISA Server 2004 is a sophisticated, application-layer aware firewall that uses a number of application...
[October 16, 2004, 3:00]
