Altera demo FPGA powered Suricata Engine, an open IDS/IPS sys

Altera has announced the first successful demonstration of the Suricata Engine, an open-source Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS) system on a Stratix V FPGA developed with the Altera SDK for OpenCL. Altera says this demonstration is ideal for government applications requiring fast traffic and monitoring performance. Altera to show this demonstration at MILCOM 2013, November 18-20, in San Diego, Calif., in booth #615. Altera explains "Designers of government applications, specifically internet security systems, are challenged with implementing an object-oriented approach to threat detection and modeling while still retaining the ability to quickly update threat models. By leveraging the hardware and software acceleration on a Stratix V FPGA, and the Altera SDK for OpenCL for direct programming, customers can implement threat modeling and detection engines like Suricata to achieve high data rates and low-latency operations for the system." Altera is partnering with the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) to deliver industry-leading open source IDS/IPS FPGA-based solutions, including Suricata. OISF is a non-profit foundation made up of software developers and security professionals committed to engaging the open-source security community in order to identify current and future IDS/IPS solutions. “Designers of government and security systems are...