Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting internet-connected systems, including hardware, software, and data, from malicious digital attacks. It ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information through a combination of technologies, processes, and user education. Effective security mitigates risks like ransomware and phishing.

Key aspects of cybersecurity include:

• Core Pillars (CIA Triad): Confidentiality (keeping data secret), Integrity (ensuring accuracy), and Availability (ensuring access).
• Key Components: Network security, cloud security, endpoint security (devices), application security, and identity management.
• Common Threats: Ransomware, phishing, malware, data theft, and AI-powered attacks
• Defense Strategy: A multi-layered approach, including firewalls, encryption, multi-factor authentication, and regular software updates.
• Proactive Measures: Implementing “Zero Trust” (verify everyone), continuous monitoring, and employee training on security best practices.

As cyber threats evolve in sophistication, organizations are focusing on AI-powered defense and comprehensive risk management to prevent financial and reputational damage.

The Certes Layer 4 Encryption Solution meets these criteria.

Certes Networks Provable Security

Overview

Certes Networks  introduces a new way to think about data security and the effectiveness of your security strategy based on the Certes Five Pillars, key performance indicators (KPIs) that are quantifiable, measurable and outcomes driven. While competitors offer encryption methods that are often disruptive and complex, the Certes Layer 4 solution is an encryption management technology that is network agnostic, easily integrating into any network infrastructure, fully interoperable with the existing security stack and with zero impact to performance. Certes Networks offers the ability to support multiple deployments across multi-vendor environments on any network or transport.  With Certes Layer 4 technology, a customer can be sure that their data assurance posture will scale to support the depth and breadth of a customer’s environment, whether deployed top-of-rack, in a virtual environment, between data centers and applications (east to west) or simply just across the WAN or SD-WAN. Moreover, the Certes Layer 4 solution encrypts data in transit allowing for secure encryption of only the payload enabling transparent deployment that operates independently of applications and the underlying network with zero changes to routers, switches and firewalls.  Network visibility and operational functionality are thereby full maintained with zero impact to performance. Scalability and Visibility are just two of the five Pillars of Certes Networks Provable Security® and one of the many reasons why customers choose Certes Networks

CERTIFIED CEP APPLIANCES

The FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria EAL4+ certified Certes Enforcement Points (CEPs) are multi-layer encryption appliances that provide data protection and application segmentation. These CEPs integrate easily into any existing network and operate transparently to the network infrastructure, which ensures all data is encrypted without impacting network performance.

CEP220 Encryption Appliance

The CEP220 is an economical entry-level desktop network appliance.

• Performance:
• L2, L3, L4
• Up to 20 Mbps
• 2-core – Dependent on packet size of 512 or larger

CEP250 Encryption Appliance

The CEP220 is an economical entry-level desktop network appliance. Performance:

• L2, L3, L4
• Up to 200 Mbps
• 4-core – Dependent on packet size of 512 or larger

CEP300 Encryption Appliance

The CEP300 is an efficient and economical 1U encryption appliance for securing WAN traffic. Performance:

• L2, L3, L4
• Up to 1 Gbps
• 2-core – Dependent on packet size of 512 or larger

CEP411 Encryption Appliance

CEP420 Encryption Appliance

The CEP420 is a versatile and efficient 1U encryption appliance with dual power supplies, perfect for remote office and distributed enterprise-networking applications with redundancy requirements. Performance:

• L2, L3, L4
• Up to 1 Gbps
• 8-core – Dependent on packet size of 512 or larger

CEP520 Encryption Appliance

The CEP520 is a versatile and efficient 1U encryption appliance with dual power supplies, perfect for remote office and distributed enterprise-networking applications with redundancy requirements. Performance:

• L2, L3, L4
• Up to 10 Gbps
• 28-core – Dependent on packet size of 512 or larger

CEP525 Encryption Appliance

The CEP525 is a versatile and efficient 1U encryption appliance with dual power supplies, perfect for remote office and distributed enterprise-networking applications with redundancy requirements.

Datasheets: Certes Enforcement Point (CEP) Appliance (CEP-220) Certes Enforcement Point (CEP) Appliance (CEP-250) Certes Enforcement Point (CEP) Appliance (CEP-300) Certes Enforcement Point (CEP) Appliance (CEP-411) Certes Enforcement Point (CEP) Appliance (CEP-420) Certes Enforcement Point (CEP) Appliance (CEP-520) Certes Enforcement Point (CEP) Appliance (CEP-525)

Certes Resources:

Active Directory Protection White Paper: Going on the Offensive – Tackling Volt Typhoon attacks on Active Directory – Whitepaper (certesnetworks.com) Podcast with Western Farmers Electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVxzuNFYvw A good “explainer” of the Certes Layer 4 encryption https://psitec.me/Certes-Explainer  (less than 2 minutes) High level overview of DPRM https://psitec.me/Certes-DPRM