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Anchiva Systems:
Web Security Appliances
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Web Security – The Need is Now
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Company Overview
  • Founded 2004
    • Over 70 employees
    • Management team from: Trend Micro, Juniper/NetScreen, Fortinet


  • Venture capital funded
    • Lead angel investor funded NetScreen
    • Over $15 million raised to date


  • Worldwide sales and support
    • Headquarters in Santa Clara
    • Offices in Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong


  • Pioneer in malware prevention & Secure Content Management (SCM)
    • Fastest malware gateway prevention – 3rd party validation
    • ICSA AV certification
    • Wildlist contributor
    • Anti Spyware Coalition member
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In house Threat Research
  • Anchiva RapidRx Labs
  •     Top-ranked malware and vulnerability research organization
    • Headed by Samuel Chen, former VP Trend Micro
    • Researchers in California, Spain and China
    • ICSA AV certification
    • Anti-Spyware Coalition Member
    • Wildlist contributor and participant – Since June ’06


      • Over 5% of Wildlist samples first contributed by Anchiva
      • Over 100 samples accepted in first 6 months
      • “WildList reporters must be qualified to meet the standards of our research community” Peter Chung, Manager WildList Organization


  • Broadest set of signatures
    • Anti-Malware and Anti-virus – 850,000+ signatures
    • Tens of Thousands of new signatures added per week


  • RapidRx Lab signatures updates
    • Multiple updates per day
    • Protection from Zero-day attacks


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Threat Overview
  • Viruses and Macros are small component of total threats today – 3%


  • 10% growth per month


  • Will grow to over 1 Million by end of year


  • Spyware, Trojan, Worm and Backdoor make up largest categories


  • Virus – old school


  • The real threat is Malware
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850,000+ Signatures - Why it Matters
  • Shelf life – How long a threat can be active
    • Viruses have a short life
      • Target vulnerabilities that eventually get patched
      • As systems get updated – Threat risk is minimized
    • Malware shelf life is much longer
      • Key logger for XP will be a threat as long as XP systems are deployed

  • Anchiva’s on box capacity is 4 to 5 times greater than others
    • Software based solutions limit # due to performance constraints
      • the greater the database size the slower the performance
      • Software solutions are limiting the number of threats covered
    • But as # of threats grow, chance of letting something pass gets greater if signature database is restricted

  • Need Hardware acceleration for performance
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Network - Gateway Importance
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Anchiva Systems’ Vision
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Web 2.0 Sites and Applications
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How Malware is distributed via Web Applications
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Malware via the Web
  • Who controls content
    • Webserver security: Webservers can be hacked
      • Object is not to deface but modify
    • User Contributed content
      • Many sites allow fully functional java scripts to be added to blogs, discussion groups, polls, profile pages
    • Advertising:  Webmasters assume that advertisers have checked content
    • Third party Widgets - Java scripts and iframe


  • User supplied and 3rd party content can be malicious:
  •   -  Not all users can be trusted


  • Web 2.0 sites – attack multiple users
    • Malware increases with the popularity of sites
    • Mass propagation of malware
    • Biggest bang for the buck


  • Content changes on a hourly/daily basis
    • Web crawlers can not profile fast enough
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Malware Pain – Enterprise Effects
  • Impacts productivity of IT, employees and business


  • Soaring IT costs related to cleaning infected machines


  • Rootkits and Trojans open up backdoors into corporate networks resulting in theft of sensitive corporate data


  • Spyware puts home users in danger of losing personal information and having their computers used as a “Bot”


  • Infected hosts are eating up network bandwidth


  • Use of Web 2.0 apps can be used to spread malware
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Anchiva Product Offerings
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Anchiva Product Matrix
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Packet Processing Overview
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Network Deployment Example
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Installation Example
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Inline Deployment  - Preventative Mode
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Recon Mode – Offline Deployment
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Customer Data
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Research + Acceleration + Network Friendly
  • Tightly integrated solution of all three elements


  • Complete content inspection – Proprietary engine
    • Anti-Malware and Anti-Virus

  • Fastest Web filtering performance
    • Patented algorithms and dedicated ASIC accelerated hardware

  • Network friendly and easy to deploy
    • Transparent mode – no network reconfiguration required
    • Advanced Network configuration support (VLAN, Zone, Asymmetric routing, …)
    • In-line scanning - near gigabit line rates
    • “Recon mode” – listening mode

  • Largest number of signatures loaded
    • One million+ signature capability – no performance degradation
    • 850,000+ signatures to date (Virus and Spyware)

  • Gateway solution to compliment the client protection
    • Anchiva develops its own malware scanning engine and service, which would compliment existing desktop solution
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Thank You
  • Questions?
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Competitive Technology Comparisons
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Signatures Vs. Behavior Based