Allied Telesis selects two new products for their Firewalls

BANGALORE, INDIA: Allied Telesis, a global provider of secure IP/Ethernet solutions and a provider in the deployment of IP Triple Play networks, has announced that they have selected two products from Emerging Threats, ETPro Ruleset and IQRisk Rep List, for their new series of Next Generation Firewalls.

The Allied Telesis Next-Generation Firewalls integrate security technologies, including Emerging Threats' threat intelligence services, to create accurate, manageable network security solutions.

Allied Telesis have partnered the Suricata Intrusion Detection System (IDS) engine with Emerging Threats' ETPro Ruleset to provide 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 their Next-Generation Firewalls, Allied Telesis offer convenient means for organizations 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 specialized hardware, in conjunction with Emerging Threats' threat intelligence, delivers a security platform with threat detection and protection capabilities.

The 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".

Ken Gramley, CEO of Emerging Threats, said: "We are very excited to be playing a key partnership role with Allied Telesis. 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."