News & Press
May 15, 2008
When the DoS Attack Reaches a Gigabit
GigaFin says that although generalist security appliances can handle your everyday needs, you’ll need its appliance when you’re hit with a massive attack.
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May 7, 2008
SLIDESHOW: Interop for Smaller Businesses—GigaFin Strives for Plug-and-Play Network Transparency
“Protecting the perimeter of your network used to be enough, but not anymore,” says GigaFin Networks CEO William Thomas.
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April 30, 2008
Your Eco-Friendly Server in a Shoebox
With the scary phenomenon known as the “Data Center Space Crunch” catching on, it is little wonder that solution vendors and service providers-alike are looking out for ways to maximize profits from what little resources that they have left.
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April 29, 2008
Hosting Services Provider i9Biz Selects GigaFin Networks to Keep Customers Safe from Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
i9Biz, an Internet hosting service provider located in Los Angeles, California, has selected technology from GigaFin Networks to preserve server performance by detecting and stopping the growing flood of Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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April 8, 2008
GigaFin Networks adds Next Generation Denial-of-Service Protection to Network Analysis and Remediation Solutions
GigaFin Networks today announced enhanced Denial of Service (DoS) prevention capabilities for its network traffic analysis and remediation solutions.
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April 8, 2008
Inline Appliances for Security, Traffic Management
The SlimLine / FlowLine products from GigaFin Networks are inline hardware appliances targeted to front individual servers, server farms, or local networks; providing traffic management and or security services to the devices they front and potentially offloading that functionality from edge routers or core switches.
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March 27, 2008
GigaFin Networks and ZINFI Technologies Partner Boost Reseller Capabilities with Online Portal
GigaFin Networks and ZINFI Technologies have partnered to build new online capabilities to help IT solutions providers offer superior levels of services, support and communications to their growing GigaFin user base worldwide.
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March 24, 2008
Give In, Give a Little, or Get Tough With Online Distractions: GigaFin Networks’ Solutions Save Critical Real-Time Resources from Bandwidth Drain as March Madness Hits
GigaFin Networks today introduced new Management Console software for its network analysis and remediation appliances, enabling remote management of distributed devices from a single location.
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March 19, 2008
GigaFin and CYAN Networks “Better Together”
CYAN Networks Software GmbH, the manufacturer of web security products, has signed a partnership agreement with the American manufacturer GigaFin Networks. Following the motto “Better Together”, we offer a unique product combination for analysing and controlling networks, for debugging and troubleshooting as well as for the immediate remediating.
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March 19, 2008
GigaFin Dives Into Managed Services Market
GigaFin, a 40-person networking start-up, is swimming aggressively into the managed services market. The company, formerly known as Mistletoe Technologies, is joining the MSP Alliance, launching a new partner portal, and introducing a management console to help managed service providers remotely administer customer networks, according to company representatives.
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March 19, 2008
IT Appliance promotes network visibility and control
Designed for fiber optic networks, FlowLine 500-F helps IT administrators detect, analyze, and prevent issues such as excessive or anomalous bandwidth usage, undesirable applications/traffic, and server attacks.
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March 14, 2008
Know Your Network
At the heart of any small or midsized enterprise is the network, which pumps life into every critical business element. The health of that network is tied directly to the bottom line, especially as businesses increasingly rely on it for communications both inside and outside of the organization. Naturally, the need to keep close watch over the network is paramount in today’s IT environment.
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March 10, 2008
GigaFin Introduces User-by-user Bandwidth Allocation Capability to Ensure Optimum Performance in Busy Networks
For organizations with a large number of computers accessing the network and unpredictable user behavior, managing and controlling the network is complex and time-consuming. To streamline this process, GigaFin Networks has introduced new bandwidth rate limiting capability to its network monitoring and traffic control products.
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February 13, 2008
GigaFin Networks Boosts Visibility, Control and Flexibility with New Network Analysis and Remediation Offerings
GigaFin introduces fiber version of high performance FlowLine appliance, adds passive monitoring to increase fit with existing networks
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January 22, 2008
GigaFin, Amer.com Partner for K-12 Network Control
GigaFin Networks and Amer.com are partnering up to provide network services for K-12 institutions. The partnership, announced at the FETC conference in Orlando, FL Jan. 22, aims to "help education administrators curb bandwidth drainage and ensure networks are free of misuse."
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January 22, 2008
GigaFin Networks Partners with Amer.com to Help School Districts Control Bandwidth Drainage and Identify Network Misuse
GigaFin Networks today announced that it has teamed with leading network solutions provider Amer.com to help education administrators curb bandwidth drainage and ensure networks are free of misuse.
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January 20, 2008
GigaFin formalizes channel strategy with VIP partner program
Internal security and traffic management solutions provider GigaFin Networks has launched its formal VIP partner program.
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January 10, 2008
GigaFin Networks Introduces New Channel Partner Program
GigaFin Networks today launched its new VIP channel partner program for resellers of its network analysis and remediation appliances.
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November 29, 2007
Bot Roast II Nets 8 Individuals
The FBI today announced the results of the second phase of its continuing investigation into a growing and serious problem involving criminal use of botnets. Since Operation ‘Bot Roast’ was announced last June, eight individuals have been indicted, pled guilty, or been sentenced for crimes related to botnet activity.
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November 28, 2007
SANS Top-20 2007 Security Risks
The threat landscape is very dynamic, which in turn makes it necessary to adopt newer security measures. Just over the last year, the kinds of vulnerabilities that are being exploited are very different from the ones being exploited in the past.
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November 12, 2007
GigaFin Networks’ CTO Kevin Rowett to Speak on Application of RDX Technology for Distributed Packets Analysis on High Speed LANs
His presentation will describe the implementation of a hardware-based parser and direct execution processor tailored for analyzing packets flowing on high speed LANs. He will also discuss the benefits of this technology in the distributed analysis of high performance networks, which allows for increased security and network optimization.
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October 24, 2007
The PCI Security Vendor Alliance Welcomes Eleven New Members
The Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance (PCI SVA) today welcomes eleven new members; ArcSight, BOSaNOVA Inc, CallCopy, Compliance Spectrum, GigaFin Networks, NetClarity, Princeton Softech, an IBM company, TELUS Security Solutions, United Security Providers, and Solidcore, and Ounce Labs.
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October 18, 2007
GigaFin Networks Launches New Security and Traffic Management Appliances to Secure and Optimize Internal Networks
Gigafin Networks™, the leader in internal security and traffic management solutions for datacenters and server farms, today announced two new products: the FlowLine 500 and the SlimLine 100. Both appliances introduce high-performance traffic monitoring, flow management, firewall and Denial-of Service prevention in a compact form factor and at economical price points. The new product line continues to support GigaFin Network’s goal of offering the most cost-effective solutions to meet the demands of today’s networks.
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October 15, 2007
Mistletoe Technologies Completes Strategic Expansion into Infrastructure Solutions by Becoming GigaFin Networks
Mistletoe Technologies today unveiled a new corporate name, Gigafin Networks™, together with an expanded direction to provide security and traffic management solutions for high performance datacenters. GigaFin Networks solutions offer the most power efficient, compact form factor appliances for monitoring network behavior, optimizing network performance and defending infrastructure from attack at Gigabit speeds.
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