CP Secure, which gateway antivirus pioneers founded in 2002, focuses on high-speed Web purification appliances. Its patent-pending "stream-based scanning" allows the content security gateway units to spot and stop malware in real time. The company, headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., operates globally in North America, Europe, and Asia with one exclusive distributor in North America, Computer Consulting Partners of Scottsdale, Ariz.

CP Secure consulting partners David Schlesinger, director of risk management and certified information systems security professional; Keith Dolgaard, president of Computer Consulting Partners and North American distributor of CP Content Security Gateway products; and Shuang Ji, CP Secure's CEO, share their thoughts on CP Secure and the data center and IT industries.

What are the biggest IT-related issues facing today's small to midsized enterprise?

"Internet crime and not enough staff to fight it," says Schlesinger. Even after installing antivirus software and firewalls, many businesses still remain unprotected against sophisticated Web-based attacks.

"Security appliances are an excellent strategy because they require no local overhead to manage them, yet they work continuously to protect the enterprise," says Dolgaard. CP Secure's line of CSG (Content Security Gateway) appliances scan incoming Web traffic to remove malware in real time and eliminate spyware, viruses, and worms at the Internet gateway before malicious code can enter the network.

What should Processor readers know about your company's products?

High-speed scanning sets the CSG appliances apart from all other scanning solutions, notes Schlesinger. It's not a proxy and, without any proxy delay, no compromises are needed in the scanning rules. With old-fashioned proxies, compromises were necessary to meet the need for speed. The common marketing claim of "deep packet inspection" exposes this problem?/font>that is, only part of the incoming packet was examined. The rest of the HTTP packet is allowed to pass without inspection, or too much latency occurs.

The CSG products inspect 100% of the code passing through for total packet inspection. Each line of designated code is scanned for malware by three scanning engines, including two antivirus utilities, Kaspersky and CSG Scanner. Optionally, a CSG appliance can reject up to 85% of all spam by using reputation filters.

The CP Secure units work so transparently, adds Schlesinger, users are completely unaware that everything is scanned and cleaned of malicious code until the malware-notification screen pops up and tells them. Available from a number of local resellers across the United States and Canada, these appliances include one year of malware signature updates from the CP Secure antivirus labs.

What makes your company unique?

It would have to be CP Secure's patent-pending stream-based scanning architecture, says Schlesinger; CP Secure is the first, and it owns the patent. The slowest CP Secure scanner (the CSG 110) scans at 50Mbps and performs total packet inspection. The 2500 unit clocks in at 480Mbps. An ISP such as EarthLink or AOL could load-balance a few of these units and filter out virtually all malware for its subscribers. Most likely, in the future all ISPs will offer this level of protection.

"Cross-site scripting attacks require getting malicious code onto the user's browser. CP Secure in front of your Web portal protects your Web servers and your customers," says Ji. "We can't imagine how a company can allow unfiltered Internet traffic though their firewall when CP Secure will purify it from all malicious code and malware with no latency. It can handle nearly a gigabit of Web traffic a second. There is no comparable product in terms of sheer, ultra-high-speed throughput."

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