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Security

• Protect the integrity of your security infrastructure
• The right people get the right level of access to the right gear
• Secure data exchange guaranteed

Manage the Risk of Application Performance

Security and Application Acceleration

Making sure that your application infrastructure performs well is critical to keep your business up and running. Many of the IT initiatives are designed to improve the efficiency and continuity of these infrastructures. But sometimes, where these initiatives help on one level of the business, they can take away from others. An application acceleration solution often saves the day, taking low performing IT initiatives from the brink of failure into the envelope of success. These solutions support your IT initiatives and will simplify your business, cut costs, and directly improve the productivity of the business. However, the security of information assets is a boundary that cannot be crossed or overlooked as you consider working with an application acceleration solution.

Security Cannot Be Overlooked

Un-secure Application Optimization Will Not Serve the Business

While optimizing your applications to perform well is a direct contributor to business performance, helping applications perform at the expense of security is extremely risky. What competitive advantages would your company lose if outsiders were able to read the company Email and open attachments? What damages could be inflicted on a company whose order processing was done in the clear, where outsiders could read orders and potentially change the content of orders? Clearly, it is a risky proposition to pass business critical traffic out on the network unprotected, even if this is needed for a particular application optimization. Similarly, it is important to secure the application infrastructure, so that it is not possible for someone to accidentally access equipment and change the application performance in a negative way. While there is always some element of risk in business, this level of risk is unacceptable.

Protection and Accountability

Fit In with Your Security Process

The good news is that while sending your traffic is in the clear and having open access to application infrastructure equipment is an unacceptably large risk, Expand solutions can help you mitigate this risk. This includes encrypting data with powerful and unique algorithms to protect it from attack and prying eyes. To help prevent risks from within, the Expand solution will not only lock its components down, but will easily integrate with your existing system for logins, permissions, and credentials. This combination of tight security coupled with easy integration into your existing systems means that your Expand solution can easily provide the protection and accountability you need in a secure application infrastructure.

Expand Compliments Your Security Requirements

Expand Encryption

As your applications are accelerated through two Expand Accelerators, a virtual tunnel is created to transport these applications and manage the optimization. This tunnel starts with Expand's sophisticated compression that can compress all applications on your network. This compression is customized to the specific traffic running between the two Accelerators, coding the transport in a format only readable by these two Accelerators. However, to really ensure your data is safe, the Accelerators (version 4.x) also offer an encryption protocol for traffic exchange. Both of these protections will help maintain your data privacy, integrity, and authentication, and meet the high standards of enterprise security mandates. Fitting in with the security mandates will allow you to take advantage of the application acceleration and optimization technologies needed by the business in a way that is approved by the business.

Expand Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)

Unauthorized access to your equipment can be just as devastating from a security perspective as attacks on your application traffic. The Accelerators' AAA functionality will allow you to easily integrate your existing AAA infrastructure (RADIUS and TACACS+) with the Expand solution. This will efficiently ensure that only the actual and authorized individuals can access your Expand solution, as well as providing you with a log of all user activity. Ease of integration and compliance with your existing standards are critical for safe and secure deployments.

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