Allied Telesis selects Emerging Threats’ ETPro® and IQRisk® products

Cyber security has become a key component of today’s business environment. On one hand, Internet-based services have become essential business tools. On the other hand, highly skilled professional criminals are constantly developing ever more undetectable means of infiltrating Internet-connected data networks. Communications infrastructure needs to be protected by systems with ever greater intelligence, control and insight. Allied Telesis has partnered the Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS) engine with Emerging Threats’ ETPro Ruleset to provide outstanding threat detection and protection abilities. This is enhanced by IQRisk Rep List, which provides a user-configurable IP Reputation service to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of the IDS.

By embedding ETPro and IQRisk into its Next-Generation Firewalls, Allied Telesis offers a highly convenient means for organisations to plug into an extensive security knowledge base containing hundreds of millions of IP addresses and domains, built up over more than a decade of threat intelligence data collection. The Allied Telesis specialised hardware, in conjunction with Emerging Threats’ threat intelligence, delivers a high performance security platform with industry-leading threat detection and protection capabilities.

This is yet another significant advance in Allied Telesis’ long history of information security solutions, which stretches back over 20 years. As an early vendor of stateful-inspection firewalls, VPN equipment, IPv6 security solutions and LAN-based Network Access Control (NAC), Allied Telesis has proven capability in the delivery of network security equipment. The new generation of Allied Telesis firewalls is designed to work with the current modes of Internet usage, and to adapt to the emerging requirements of “X as a service” and “The Internet of Things”.

“We are delighted by the threat intelligence that Emerging Threats’ services adds to our solution. The unparalleled accuracy and protection contributed by its years of experience in cyber-security will be of great benefit to our customers,” said Graham Walker, senior product manager at Allied Telesis. “Accurate intrusion detection and prevention is an essential feature of our next-generation Firewalls, but so are performance and manageability. Emerging Threats’ ETPro Ruleset and IQRisk Rep List products bring an excellent level of security intelligence that allows us to offer up-to-the-minute, high performance, accurate protection in a flexible, user-friendly package.”

“We are very excited to be playing a key partnership role with Allied Telesis,” said Ken Gramley, CEO of Emerging Threats. “Our partnership is the perfect intersection of two complementary companies having long standing reputations as major security vendors. We anticipate Allied Telesis customers will be very pleased with the results.”

According to Seiichiro Sato, director of global product marketing, Allied Telesis, “We are seeing considerable demand from customers looking for an integrated solution across their network from the edge to the core. Our Next-Generation Firewalls deliver high-performance superior security, and provide a simpler infrastructure to administer and manage.”

The Internet has become a powerful enabler for a vast range of activities. The possibilities that it opens will only continue to grow in the future. However, this also provides alluring opportunities for clever criminals. As such, highly intelligent, high performance, future-proof security protection is required to truly enjoy the benefits of Internet connectivity. Allied Telesis Next-Generation Firewalls, powered by impressive technology like Emerging Threats’ ETPro Ruleset and IQRisk Rep List, provide that protection – along with high data throughput “single pane of glass” management and a highly available solution.