SAN JOSE, Calif., April
20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a
leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent
processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless
networking, today announced the LiquidSecurity™ Hardware Security
Module (HSM) Family, a complete Hardware Based Transaction Security
Solution. The LiquidSecurity™ HSM family provides a FIPS 140-2
level 2 and 3 partitioned, centralized and elastic key management
solution with the highest transaction/sec performance. It addresses
the high performance security requirements for private key
management and administration while also addressing elastic
performance per virtual / network domain for the virtualized cloud
environment. This product family is available as a PCI Express
adapter with complete software and also as a HSM appliance for
evaluation or deployment. It offers a no-compromise, fully-secure
and cost efficient solution that addresses the stringent security
requirements of SaaS applications, Ecommerce payment systems and
Enterprise, Banking and Government security applications especially
as they migrate to the Public or Private cloud. Major applications
for this product family include Key Management as-a-Service,
Database as-a-Service, Crypto as-a-service, Secure DNS, SaaS
Applications, Virtual Private Clouds in the Public Cloud and
Payment systems.
Certifications
High Security Modules (HSMs) need to be
certified to various standards depending on the applications and
target markets. These include FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria EAL 4 and
Payment Card Industry (PCI) HSM standards. FIPS 140-2 is a Federal
Information Processing standard for Hardware Secure Modules that
includes the need for tamper evidence / detection and to keep
security keys within the physical boundary of the FIPS 140-2
certified product.
Market Dynamics for Cloud Transaction Security
There
are 3 major trends driving the need for FIPS certified Transaction
Security in Cloud data centers. Ecommerce, Healthcare and
Government applications that traditionally used FIPS level security
in private data centers are migrating to the virtualized/SDN
capable, multi-domain, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. They need
a secure and elastic FIPS solution as they migrate to the
Cloud.
Enterprise applications that use private keys but did not need
FIPS based security because they were deployed in private
datacenters which were physically located within the enterprise are
now migrating to geographically-dispersed Public and Private Cloud
where they could be co-located and share resources with multiple
tenants. They now need FIPS level security for the private
keys with high performance key operation and management in the
Cloud environment. Additionally, in the Cloud Data Center there is
a move towards software only version of various networking
appliances running on virtual-machines (VM) on data center servers.
However these have low TPS (transactions per second) due to a lack
of optimized hardware acceleration for the numerous security
protocols and algorithms. Application Delivery Controllers, Routers
and Firewalls are few examples of these virtual appliances. These
virtual appliances need elastic performance and elastic /
centralized key storage to reach the needed performance. Current
FIPS solutions have limited capabilities to address the emerging
requirements of the transaction security market. They offer low
performance, low key storage, minimum elasticity, no SDN features
and have a high cost.
Fully secure and authenticated deployments in the cloud require
a high performance FIPS 140-2 solution with storage for large
number of keys, flexible support for large number of domains, ease
of management and migration, and high bandwidth connectivity with
SDN features. Cavium's LiquidSecurity HSM family is the first
solution in the market that offers a no-compromise solution that
effectively addresses the performance, cost, multi domain and
comprehensive feature requirements of the Transaction Security
market. It offers 10-30x higher performance and 10x greater storage
when compared to existing solutions.
"With government and enterprise applications moving to
virtualized public and private clouds, the demand for secure,
multi-domain, high performance/storage HSM solutions is increasing
rapidly," said Bob Wheeler,
Principal Analyst at The Linley Group. "Cavium's LiquidSecurity HSM
family meets these requirements by delivering an innovative and
comprehensive security solution to the market."
Introducing the LiquidSecurity HSM
Family
LiquidSecurity HSM Family is a FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and
3 certified product family from Cavium. The LiquidSecurity
Solution is available as a PCIe adapter family as well as an
Appliance. Both product families include the highly innovative
LiquidSecurity Server and Client software.
Feature Highlights
- SSL handshake offloads for 32 domains – LiquidSecurity
family has 32 FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Partitions. Each partition
functions as an independent and fully secure HSM.
- Dual FIPS boundary - With the appliance version of the
family a dual FIPS 140-2 boundary is also available that provides
an added layer of security.
- Storage for up to 1M keys is supported with multiple appliances
in a scalable manner.
- Tens of Thousands of 2048 bit RSA Ops/sec –
LiquidSecurity HSM family provides market leading performance to
meet the needs of multiple domains or virtual appliances.
This performance is at least 10 times higher than any other
solution on the HSM market today. This product family also
supports 10 Gbps bulk encryption. In addition, multiple
LiquidSecurity HSM modules can be pooled together to offer highest
performance for mega data centers.
- Hardware support for 2048 bit RSA key pair generation
–robust key generation within the FIPS boundary is a critical
component of the overall security this product family
provides.
- Scalability – For the most demanding applications up to
20 LiquidSecurity HSM appliances can be seamlessly connected
through the native 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports.
LiquidSecurity Product Line
- LiquidSecurity HSM PCI Express Adapter Family is a
standard PCI Express adapter family bundled with LiquidSecurity HSM
software.
- LiquidSecurity HSM Appliance Family – This is a 1U
Appliance which includes the full suite of LiquidSecurity HSM
software along with 2 x 10G Ethernet Ports for evaluation or
deployment. This appliance family has the added capability of
providing standard or custom SDN support with an optional LiquidIO
Server Adapter from Cavium.
LiquidSecurity HSM Family Software
The LiquidSecurity
family of products includes a comprehensive suite of HSM Family
Software consisting of various components that enable easy customer
integration. The software solution includes the LiquidSecurity
Client which supports cryptographic APIs such as PKCS11, Java JCA,
OpenSSL and Microsoft CNG. These APIs enable applications
such as Crypto As-A-Service, Database encryption, Document signing
and many others. LiquidSecurity software management tools,
High Availability and Load balancing features and restful APIs
enable customers to easily integrate the PCI card or appliance
within their existing management environment.The robust feature set
enables deployment in all locations including Public Cloud,
Colocation facilities & Private Cloud.
"The LiquidSecurity HSM Product family provides critical
performance, feature and TCO benefits to customers for transaction
security that have not been available in the market until now,"
said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager at
Cavium. "These breakthrough capabilities will enable a
no compromise, high security solution and accelerate the transition
to the Cloud for SaaS as well as Enterprise, Banking and Government
secure applications."
LiquidSecurity Partners
Cavium has worked with several
market leading solution providers to enable a robust ecosystem of
solutions that can seamlessly interoperate with the LiquidSecurity
HSM Family. This ecosystem will enable customers to
seamlessly integrate the new LiquidSecurity Family of products into
their existing Data Center application environment. The early
partners include F5 Networks, A10 Networks & Kemp Technologies
for Application Delivery Controllers and Extrahop Networks for
Application analysis and Performance Monitoring. Additional
partners will be added over the coming quarters.
Availability
LiquidSecurity HSM Family is now
avaliable from Cavium in both the PCI Express Adapter and appliance
form factors.
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly
integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless
service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance
from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent
functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and
access & service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are
supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems,
tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's
principal offices are in San Jose,
California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com
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