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Hifn Pattern Matching Accelerates Content Security Processing

Posted on: Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 09:00 CST

SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA Conference, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Network- and storage-security market leader Hifn(TM) announced today Hifn Pattern Matching (HPM), a new high-performance content processing software. HPM accelerates compute-intensive pattern and signature recognition tasks for Enterprise and Carrier-class networks, as well as content inspection of packets traveling through the network.

HPM contains "rule compression" technology that creates a highly compact rules database format. The database, along with HPM's small code footprint, resides in a microprocessor cache enabling unprecedented runtime performance. Network edge security devices and Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances all have the same fundamental limitation: they can only process packets at the speed they can detect signatures. HPM's performance advantages dramatically improve the overall throughput of these security systems.

"Hifn's HPM product offers a revolutionary new technology at a disruptive performance level enabling our OEM customers to enhance their existing products and position themselves well for the next-generation security products," said Robert Friend, director of product marketing at Hifn. "Memory speed is the primary bottleneck to Regular Expression content processing performance. As a result, HPM enables content inspection software to out-perform hardware."

The market for network security is expected to be one of the fastest growing segments within the technology sector over the next decade, as service providers, enterprises, consumers and government agencies increase their deployment of security systems. In fact, market research firm Infonetics predicts, in their 3Q CY2005 report, worldwide network security appliances and software revenue will hit $6.0 billion by 2008.

The ability to perform content inspection at line rate and across multiple packets and flows is essential to enabling the next generation of application- layer switches, routers, and network security equipment. Typical applications for HPM content processor software include unified threat management (UTM) appliances, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), anti-virus (AV) gateways, anti-spam appliances, and deep packet inspection (DPI) firewalls.

HPM scans payload content of selected packets for worms, viruses, and other malware and operates at gigabit speeds on GHz CPUs. HPM content processing software is compatible with and optimized for all general-purpose CPUs (Intel and AMD) and embedded processors (MIPS and PowerPC). The software's simplified interface makes it easy to integrate into networking and security systems, which enables customers to accelerate their time to market and lower engineering costs.

Availability

HPM v2.0 will be available in the second quarter of CY 2006. To demonstrate the power of HPM content security acceleration capabilities, an evaluation version is available to prospective customers.

About Hifn

Hifn combines network processing, security, compression, content search, and flow classification technology into solutions for networking, security and storage suppliers. Hifn's solutions are deployed in virtually all market-leading networking and security products. Founded in 1996, Hifn is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. For more information on Hifn solutions, please visit: http://www.hifn.com/ .

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Specifically, statements regarding the Company's future financial performance including, without limitation, statements related to the revolutionary new technology and disruptive performance are all forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include, but are not limited to: dependency on a small number of customers; customer demand and customer ordering patterns; and orders from Hifn's customers may be below the company's current expectations. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in Hifn's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hifn expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

NOTE: Hi/fn(R) is a registered trademark of hi/fn, inc. Hifn and MeterFlow are trademarks of Hi/fn, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Hifn, Inc.

CONTACT: Hifn, Inc. Corporate Communications, +1-408-399-3500, orpress@hifn.com

Web site: http://www.hifn.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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